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2021

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Systematic research on soil pollution shows that soils in Slovenia, with some exceptions, are not heavily polluted. In 42% of top soil samples taken in the period from 1999 to 2019, no exceedances of the limit values of dangerous substances into the soil were detected. In 56% of the samples the limit values of inorganic pollutants were exceeded and in 5% the limit values of organic pollutants. The most polluted areas with inorganic pollutants were Jesenice, Idrija, the Celje Basin and the Upper Mežica Valley.

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Figure TP04-1: The percent of top soil from 1999 to 2019 according to limit values, alert thresholds and critical levels of inorganic dangerous substances into the soil

Sources:

ROTS, VM, Slovenian Environment Agency, 2021 (20. 01. 2021)

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		arsenic	copper	zinc	cadmium	cobalt	chrome	mlybdenum	nickel	lead	mercury
below the limit value	%	87	94	95	71	80	93	98	77	91	97
between the limit and the warning value	%	11	4	3	19	20	5	2	10	2	2
between the warning and critical value	%	2	2	1	9	0	2	0	13	6	1
above the critical value	%	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
sum	%	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
below the limit value	number	319	345	349	263	293	344	360	282	335	357
between the limit and the warning value	number	41	15	12	71	74	17	6	38	6	6
between the warning and critical value	number	7	8	4	34	1	7	0	47	23	3
above the critical value	number	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	4	2
sum	number	368	368	368	368	368	368	366	368	368	368

Figure TP04-2: Soil pollution in the years 1999-2019 with at least one inorganic pollutant (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn, Hg, Mo, Ni)

Sources:

ROTS, VM, Slovenian Environment Agency, 2021 (20. 01. 2021)

Figure TP04-3: Soil pollution with at least one inorganic pollutant (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn, Hg, Mo, Ni) at repeated sampling sites

Sources:

ROTS, VM, Slovenian Environment Agency, 2021 (20. 01. 2021)

Figure TP04-4: Soil pollution in the years 1999-2019 with at least one organic pollutant (HCH compounds, drini, DDT/DDD/DDE, PCB, PAH, atrazine, simazine)

Sources:

ROTS, VM, Slovenian Environment Agency, 2021 (20. 01. 2021)

Figure TP04-5: Comparison of soil pollution with inorganic pollutants, according to the type of soil use

Sources:

VM, Slovenian Environment Agency, 2021 (20.01.2021)

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	Unit	above the critical value	between the warning and critical value	between the limit and the warning value	below the limit value	sum
residential area	%	1	0	5	95	100
industrial area	%	0	0	9	91	100
agricultural land area	%	0	2	11	87	100
children's playground	%	0	6	0	94	100
residential area	number of measurements	1	0	5	104	110
industrial area	number of measurements	0	0	1	10	11
agricultural land area	number of measurements	0	1	6	48	55
children's playground	number of measurements	0	2	0	31	33