The Bucha River has completely dried up between Irpin and Gostomel
In the Kyiv region, the Bucha River, a left tributary of the Irpin, has completely dried up.
According to him, the water has practically disappeared in the section between Irpin and Gostomel, and the riverbed has completely dried up.
“The Bucha River is no longer a tributary of the Irpin River. At least for now. It has dried up. I walked along the dry riverbed between Irpin and Gostomel. There is no river!” Koskin noted.
The writer also pointed out that the river no longer flows out of Lake Zemsnaryad. According to him, three high-rise buildings were previously constructed on this very stretch.
The Bucha, or Buchanka, is a river in the Kyiv region and a left tributary of the Irpin. It belongs to the Dnipro River basin.
The river is 34 km long, and its watershed covers an area of 301 square kilometers. The average width of the riverbed is about 5 meters, and the river’s gradient is 2 m/km.
The river originates in the village of Motyzhin, after which it flows near Severynivka, Kolonshchyna, Mykolaivka, Bucha, Mykhailivka-Rubezhivka, and Zabuchchia. Between Irpin and Bucha, it flows through several lakes before emptying into the Irpin River near Gostomel.
The water body is used for fish farming and water supply.
The flow of the Bucha is regulated by multi-purpose ponds. Near Mykhailivka-Rubezhivka, the river is dammed, creating a pond.
A large pond is also located near the town of Bucha. Upstream of the dam, the riverbed splits into a series of irrigation canals that extend to a second pond. The distance between the two bodies of water is about 12 km.
According to Kolkin, the river’s current condition indicates that in certain sections, the Bucha has virtually lost all surface runoff.
This was reported by Ukrainian writer and journalist Volodymyr Koskin.
As a reminder, Lake Svitiaz in Volyn has noticeably shrunk: in some areas, the water has receded dozens of meters from the shoreline, and parts of the territory that were previously flooded are now accessible on foot.
In Kyiv, following the Russian attack on the night of August 8, minor oil pollution was again detected in Lake Kyrylivske and the Syrets Stream.
