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Design of regulated ford on the roads of low traffic intensity at the crossing of torrential flows
Assessment of soil erosion in the Lipnica watershed, Polimije, Montenegro
Assessment of soil erosion risk is of great importance for management of natural resources,
allowing decision makers to modify land use properly implementing environmental strategies
more sustainable in the long-term. Inappropriate land use and land management is often
viewed as main cause of accelerated erosion rates. Modelling soil erosion rates is key to
understand the impact of future land management and climate change on land degradation.
Polimlje is one of five river basins in Montenegro that drains toward the Danube and is
divided into fifty-seven sub basins. Lipnica watershed is one of them where we studied soil
erosion processes using the IntErO model, with the Erosion Potential Method embedded in
the algorithm of this computer-graphic method. For the current state of land use, calculated
maximal outflow from the river basin is 58 m3s-1 for the incidence of 100 years and the net
soil loss is 469 m³year-1, specific 92 m³ year-1 per square kilometre. With the results obtained
we were able to conclude that the river basin belongs in „Destruction Category V”, according
to the classification system of Gavrilovic; the erosion process is very weak. This study has
shown that the IntErO model and Erosion Potential Method are useful tools for researchers in
calculation of sediment yield at the level of the river basins for the South East European
regio