title: Changes of soil salinity and ground waters at the rice systems in Sivash lowland after irrigation cease
abstract: The aim of the article is to submit data about ground water table and soil salinity of the rice irrigated systems at the Sivash seashore in Nyzhnegorsky district of Crimea in 2017–2018 which is 4–5 years from irrigation cease. It was found that many soil cover patterns with salt-affected solonetz at the rice system were leached from salts to the depth about 3–3.5 m by flooding irrigation during half a century. In 2017–2018 ground water tables were deeper than the critical depth. Ground water min
journal: Dokuchaev Soil Bulletin