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State of the Environment in Košice 2001
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Air quality

   What is being done to solve the problems

The objective is to harmonize operation of air polluting sources with requirements of the valid Slovak legislation for air protection.

The current activities in the area of Košice are mainly aimed at:

  • further progress of the gasification of air polluting sources and gasification of residential areas in the surroundings of the city.

  • further development of the system of central heating in Košice, replacement of the part of the Municipal Heating Plant (TEKO Košice), whose service life is being expired, by construction of the steam-gas cycle or using geothermal energy from near sources in the surroundings of the city (Ďurkov).

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  • further modernization and reconstruction of sources of pollution (dedusting, denitrification and desulphurisation) and replacement of production technologies, which do not meet environmental requirements in production enterprises. In Iron and Steel Works (U.S. Steel Košice) it is for example: dedusting of sintering bands, dedusting of steel making halls, making the boilers of the Heating Plant environment-friendly, desulphurisation of coke-oven gas and other.

  • modernization and technical completion of the Solid Municipal Waste Incinerating Plant with additional stages of waste gas cleaning.

  • reduction of emissions from automobile transport in the City of Košice, mainly through rationalization of the city road network (building up bypasses).

In order to protect the air and ozone layer of the Earth and for further reduction of emissions of pollutants and harmful substances, it is necessary to implement particular investment actions and measures in the sources of air pollution, which are included in the document called ”National Environmental Action Programme of the Slovak Republic”. The Regional Environmental Action Programme was elaborated for the area of Košice. Large polluters have also elaborated their environmental action programmes and emission reduction programmes.

The more detailed information on the quality of air and on sources of air pollution in the Slovak Republic are given by the Slovak Institute of Hydrometeorology, www.shmu.sk.

 

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