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Enhancing management of contaminated sites using environmental monitoring data and preliminary risk assessment methodology in Serbia
Vidojević, Dragana
Kukobat, Lana
Damnjanović, Darko
Jevtić, Nemanja
Šiljić Tomić, Aleksandra
Abstract: According to the Law on Soil Protection, the Cadastre of Contaminated Sites is a set of relevant data on endangered, polluted, and degraded soil. Serbian Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has been constantly working to improve the national methodology for collection, analysis and assessment of data on contaminated sites. The last updated database of the Cadastre shows that 309 potentially contaminated and contaminated sites have been identified and recorded on the territory of the Republic of Serbia. The main purpose of the Cadastre is to provide systematic data on sources of pollution such as the type, quantities, methods and location of discharges of pollutants into the soil, in order to implement preventive or remediation measures. Data collection is defined in more detail in the Rulebook on the content and manner of keeping the Cadastre of contaminated sites, type, content, forms, manner, and deadlines for data submission. Investigation of industrial sites suspected to be contaminated was a part of the GEF-funded project "Enhanced Cross-sectoral Land Management through Land Use Pressure Reduction and Planning" which is implemented by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in close cooperation with the Ministry of Environmental Protection and SEPA in the period 2015–2019. The main goals of the Project were to provide the lacking methodologies, knowledge, and coordination mechanisms for sustainable and integrated management of soil as a natural resource. The Project also supported further development of the Cadastre of contaminated sites and preliminary analysis of selected 32 potentially contaminated sites. Field missions to the identified sites were conducted in 2016 with the purpose to identify receptors of pollution and potential exposure routes, previous land use, surface area, type and quantity of hazardous substances found at the location and in the surrounding area, soil and groundwater quality, as well as geological, pedological and hydrological features and to prepare and elaborate sampling programs, whereas the soil sampling itself took place in 2017 when 264 soil samples were analysed. Site specific environmental monitoring data and soil sampling results allowed performing the comparative analysis and application of preliminary risk assessment methodology that served to compile the relative risk-based priority list of contaminated sites. For this purpose, the Preliminary Risk Assessment Model for the identification and assessment of problem areas for Soil contamination in Europe – PRA.MS has been applied.
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2021
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Contaminated sites, Preliminary Risk Assessment, Remediation