Emission Inventory 2000

Municipal and Industrial Discharges
in the Danube River Basin

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Introduction


The herewith-presented Emission Inventory 2000 of municipal and industrial
discharges is the second complete emission inventory of point sources, which cover
the whole Danube river basin.

The emissions are arranged first by countries and then in accordance with the
approach of Water Framework Directive on a sub-basins basis.

All Signatory States to the Danube River Protection Convention have contributed
data to the emission inventories. In addition data were given by Bosnia and
Herzegovina, including values for Banja Luca (Republic of Srpska). For their
contributions special acknowledgement is expressed.

At the time of compilation of this inventory, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia did
not yet contribute. Therefore, for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, this inventory
contains the data on municipal discharges for the year 1996.

The reference year of the data in the emission inventories is 2000.

The values in the emission inventories were determined as loads for individual plants,
based on continuous or periodical measurements; in some cases permit values or
estimated values were used by national experts to assess the actual emission
values. This implies different qualities of single data.

For the compilation of the inventory of municipal discharges those municipal
emissions were included which cover in total at least 75 % of the national COD loads
transported in sewers and discharged into the riverine environment, irrespective of
the type of treatment. The type of treatment ranges from no treatment at all, via
mechanical treatment to the removal of organic carbon and further up to the removal
of phosphorus and nitrogen. However the national percentages of population
connected to public sewer systems vary in large boundaries, from 14 % to 90 %.

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The constituents of wastewaters, which are not connected to sewer systems, partially
reach surface waters by diffuse pathways via soil and groundwater. Since
estimations of the diffuse emissions were not available for the reference time and the
whole Danube river basin, they were not included in the municipal inventory.

Therefore the given figures for the "national loads" (which in addition comprise only
those loads of the Member State which are discharged into the Danube river
catchment only) should not be compared on a country-by-country basis. This also
applies for the loads on the "sub-basin" basis.

The inventory of industrial discharges considers the most relevant types of industry:
food-, chemical-, pulp and paper-, fertilizer-, mining-, iron and steel-, metal surface
treatment-, textile-, leather industry and large agricultural plants. In each case the
best data available were included, so the `quality' of the data also varies.

A better insight into total contributions of point and diffuse sources to the pollution of
the Danube River Basin is expected to be gained from the UNDP/GEF project:
"Strengthening the Implementation Capacities for Nutrient Reduction and
Transboundary Cooperation in the Danube River Basin".

Despite the variations in data quality, the data of the first and second emission
inventories have already been used in several research and development
projects as wel as in investigations and for policy-making and thus have become a
valuable tool of information. In making them available in the Internet, the emission
inventories may also find the appreciation of the interested public.

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Map: Danube Sub-river Basins
Based on Transboundary Analysis Workshop 1999
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6. Pannonian Central Danube (A,SK,H,HR,YU)
7: Drava - Mura (A,SLO,HR,H)
8: Sava (SLO,HR,BIH,YU)
9: Tisa (SK,UA,RO,H,YU)
10: Banat - Eastern Serbia (YU,RO)
Danube Pollution Reduction Programme
11: Velika Morava (YU,BG)
12: Mizia - Dobrudzha (BG)
13: Muntenia (R0)
United Nations Development Programme
14: Prut - Siret (UA,MD,RO)
Global Environmental Facility
15: Delta - Liman (MD,UA,RO)
ICPDR - Programme Coordination Unit
1400 Vienna, P.O. Box 500, Austria
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Produced by ZINKE ENVIRONMENT CONSULTING
for Central and Eastern Europe, Vienna, 1999
Scale: 1: 4 500 000
(Cartography by U.SCHWARZ)

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Annotations and Abbreviations

Annotations:



p
permit value








Abbreviations:



AVcode unique code per discharge location



(T)
discharge is at tributary of the river mentioned

TPE
thousand population equivilants



Tm3/a
thousand cubic meters per year



t/a
tons per year



t/d
tons per day



EUR
Euro






Industrial Sectors:



1
food industry



2
chemical industry



3
pulp and paper industry



4
fertiliser industry



5
mining


6
iron and steel industry


7
metal surface treatment


8
textile industry


9
leather industry



10
agriculture


11
other relevant industry

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