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Results of advance training T. Arbneshi in Rudjer Bošković Institute about POPs analysis and investigation suspicious areas in Kosovo contaminated with POPs as consequence of war damages, and detailed planning the future work for the first year

The work is performed pursuant the mentioned contract Annex 1 under WP2 – Level and hydro-geologic status of some POPs in some Croatian, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo regions as the consequences of the war damages. The region included in our researches relates to the grounds of Kosovo, including the data on questionable sources of pollution with POPs within the different locations in the country, as well as the data on underground and the other parts of the ecosystem that are significantly polluted with PCBs. The task of the Project is the identification of locations where the damages and ruination of electro transformer and capacitors stations and oil leakage appeared, with the special emphasis to those facilities that contain the oils with the polychlorinated biphenyls, which are mainly the capacitor stations and the status of POPs infiltrated in the various ecosystems, especially in sensitive and easy vulnerable karst systems i.e. surface and underground waters, soil, underwater sediments, flora and fauna. The locations of atmosphere with PCBs pollution and its combustion products as well as the methods and locations for gathering of samples would be identified after definition of the mentioned data. The second very important task for the first year of investigation has been training of young scientist. It is well known that measuring the traces of organic pollutants in environment samples is very skilful and very often connected with many serious fault results. Pristina University possess very restricted experiences in such analysis. It is reason that dr.sc. Tahir Arbneshi (during proposal period his name was Tahir Gjeçbitriqi) has been spend until now 4 months for training in Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia. Even thorough this relatively short time, Tahir Arbneshi became very skilful in the laboratory works for analysis of PCBs and DDTs in soil samples. He will spend additional 2 months in Rudjer Boskovic Institute for developing more skill in recognition gas chromatograms.

POPs; war waste; former Yugoslavia; Croatia

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