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Emissions are produced mainly by large stationary sources of air pollution located in the area of Košice. Eastern Slo vakian Iron and Steel Works – VSŽ Košice, Košice Municipal Heat Plant – TEKO and Municipal Waste Incinerating Plant – KOSIT have the greatest share in air pollution.From among of all large sources of air pollution in Slovakia (with heat power output > 5 MW plus selected technologies), VSŽ Košice produced in 1999: 46.5% solid pollutants, 9.4% SO2, 18% NOx, 69.5% CO of total emissions. In 1999, they participated by 95.7% in total emissions of selected basic pollutants (solid substances, SO2, NOxand CO) pro duced in Košice from stationary sources. Almost the whole quantity of emissions of heavy metals produced from stationary sources in the area of Košice originates from the production of iron and steel at VSŽ Košice (since 2000 transformed to U.S. Steel).Automobile transport nation increasingly participates in air pollution, mainly in main traffic corridors leaving the city of Košice and in ”canyons” of streets in the centre of the city. The increase in intensity of road transport causes the increase in general load of roads, and increases the quantity of emissions from exhaust gases (mainly CO, NOx and VOC), secondary dustiness, and in this way it adversely affects air in the breathing zone of man under limited dispersion conditions due to the built-up area.
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