**Monitoring**

**Chapter 1**

**The Comparison of Soil Load by POPs in Two Major**

The Czech Republic belongs to the countries with long-term industrial history. The environ‐ mental load by persistent organic pollutants pollution has been proved to follow the indus‐ trial development, especially concerning the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons emissions. In the Czech Republic the industrial growth started during 19th century and in the beginning of 20th century at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The industrial development continued after the Monarchy collapse and the Czechoslovak Republic formation (1918 - 1938). The rapid industry growth was led by heavy industry priority in the period of social‐ istic economy (1948 – 1990) and caused the wide environmental damages. The imission outputs reached maximum in 70th years when the daily average concentrations of SO2 (gaseous

following the data of Czech Hydrometeorological Institute [1]. The loading by

There are two main coal mining regions in the Czech Republic (see Figure 1.). The history of brown coal mining started in North Bohemian Region in the beginning of 19th century (1819) and reached the maximum in the eighties of 20th century. The history of black coal mining in North Moravian Region is very similar and the mining activity peaked in the eighties of 20th century (about 20 millions tons per year). Opencast coal-mining activity in North Bohemia has been changing the landscape character in more intense way, however the deep mines in North Moravia has also caused environmental damages due to terrain subsidence and la‐ goons with coal powder and waste. Other important risk are linked to the combustion of brown coal of low quality with increased contents of sulphur and arsenic [2] in coal-fired power stations in North Bohemia and to the presence of metallurgical industry in the North

and in the coalfield areas of North Bohemia up to 70 -

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and in extreme cases reached 150μg/m3

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**Imission Regions of the Czech Republic**

Radim Vácha, Jan Skála, Jarmila Čechmánková and

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Viera Horváthová

**1. Introduction**

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emission) were over 50μg/m3

floating dust particles was more than 70 - 100μg/m3

100μg/m3
