A catastrophic landslide and tsunami in the reservoir of the Bureyskaya hydropower plant (The Amur River basin)

The results of field and experimental microbiological studies of water, soil, and rock samples in the influence zone of large landslide are presented. The landslide occurred in December 2018 and blocked the Bureya Reservoir from coast to coast. An artificial channel was created to restore the hydrological regime with the use of TNT (trinitrotoluene) and RDX (hexogen). A comparative analysis of the abundance of cultivated heterotrophic bacteria around the landslide body and in the artificial channel is carried out. The activity of microbial communities in relation to easily available (peptone, lactate, and starch) and difficult-to-mineralize humic compounds is also determined. With the use of spectrometry and gas chromatography, it is shown that an increase in the diversity of aromatic compounds in water is accompanied by an increase in the abundance of heterotrophic bacteria. A number of toxic substances, including methanol and methylated benzene derivatives, are found among the dominant components in the water. Its concentrations increased after the water drained through the landslide body and after imploding works. Many of the volatile organic compounds may have been products of microbial metabolism when water interacts with rocks. A hypothesis on the role of methanotrophic and methylotrophic bacteria in the genesis of methanol and toluene is discussed.

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A catastrophic landslide and tsunami in the reservoir of the Bureyskaya hydropower plant (The Amur River basin)

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