Techa River
Sign in to savethumb|Map of the Tobol basin. The Techa river (Теча) may be found to the left center, next to the regional ЧЕЛЯБИНСКАЯ ОБЛАСТЬ (Chelyabinsk Oblast) label. The Techa (, ) is an eastward river on the eastern flank of the southern Ural Mountains noted for its nuclear contamination. It is long, and its basin covers . It begins by the once-secret nuclear processing town of Ozyorsk about northwest of Chelyabinsk and flows east then northeast to the small town of Dalmatovo to flow into the mid-part of the Iset, a tributary of the Tobol. Its basin is close to and north of the Miass, longer than these
Key facts
- River.name
- Techa
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Russia
- River.mouth
- Iset
- River.progression
- Iset→
- River.length_km
- 243
- River.basin_size_km2
- 7600
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Река Теча (приток Исети) f005.jpg
- Length
- 243
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- Techa River
- watershed area
- 7600
- discharge
- 6.7
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thumb|Map of the Tobol basin. The Techa river (Теча) may be found to the left center, next to the regional ЧЕЛЯБИНСКАЯ ОБЛАСТЬ (Chelyabinsk Oblast) label. The Techa (, ) is an eastward river on the eastern flank of the southern Ural Mountains noted for its nuclear contamination. It is long, and its basin covers . It begins by the once-secret nuclear processing town of Ozyorsk about northwest of Chelyabinsk and flows east then northeast to the small town of Dalmatovo to flow into the mid-part of the Iset, a tributary of the Tobol. Its basin is close to and north of the Miass, longer than these rivers apart from the Tobol.
==Water pollution== From 1949 to 1956 the Mayak complex dumped an estimated of radioactive waste water into the Techa River, a cumulative dispersal of of radioactivity.
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