Environmental risks of farmed and barren alkaline coal ash landfills in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Alex Dellantonio, Walter J. Fitz*, Hamid Custovic, Frank Repmann, Bernd U. Schneider, Holger Grünewald, Valeria Gruber, Zeljka Zgorelec, Nijaz Zerem, Claudia Carter, Mihajlo Markovic, Markus Puschenreiter, Walter W. Wenzel

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    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)677-686
    Number of pages10
    JournalEnvironmental Pollution
    Volume153
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished (VoR) - Jun 2008

    Funding

    We acknowledge the thermoelectric power plant in Tuzla and all members of the RECOAL project for their support. Many thanks to Christian Rauter for his assistance with the GIS component. This work was done as part of the RECOAL project (reintegration of coal ash disposal sites and mitigation of pollution in the West Balkan area, project # 509173), funded by the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union.

    Keywords

    • Agriculture
    • Coal ash
    • Landfill
    • Pollution
    • Wastewater

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