Nutrient load to the
Baltic Sea from
the r.
Nemunas
in Lithuania
1986
1988
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
3,736
7,144
5,273
4,727
7,980
6,654
5,727
1,078
1,664
14,978
15,131
14,727
27,596
32,753
23,193
39,661
27,205
37,383
5,845
1,780
2,972
1,561
1,723
0,979
1,128
0,592
1,076
Year
NH4-N, t
NO3-N, t
PO4-P, t
Source: Monitoring annals of the
Lithuanian Joint Research Centre. Calculation for the Nemunas basin from Smalininkai post
NO3-N load has
increased 2.5
times