ABSTRACT. Quality degradation issues regarding hydro tourist resources from Arieş catchment area upstream of Buru. monitoring of hydro tourist resources is ensured by a dense network of hydrometric stations and checkpoints aimed strictly on specific quality aspects. For underground waters there are three water quality monitoring sites, two of them aimed at karst springs, and the third provides data collection for determining physical and chemical parameters of Bulz underground stream of Huda lui Papară Cave. The only indicator of pollution are chloride, definite proof of a domestic pollution in discharges The situation is explained by the presence of Poieni Valley and Ponor village across the Cheia basin.
Keywords: aesthetic degradation, underground drainage, vulnerability, pollution