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The flow of the Bâc is heavily seasonal. During the summer season, the river sometimes dries out and turns into a chain of ponds and puddles. In spring and autumn the water level can rise quite rapidly. Despite Soviet-era flood controls, local floods are still occasionally a problem on the middle and
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The Bâc is extremely polluted. Industries and private enterprises dump wastewater into it, and as it flows through Chișinău it receives large amounts of untreated runoff. The practice of dumping untreated sewage has been reduced but not entirely eliminated. The upper Bâc is less damaged than the
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The Bâc was never navigable above Anenii Noi, but it was an important source of water and fish for local communities. Floods were frequently a problem, with a particularly heavy flood doing extensive damage in July 1948.
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