Ambient Air Quality Monitoring and Human Risk Assessment in Slovakia. I. Holoubek, Pavel Cupr RECETOX - TOCOEN & Assoc. Kotlárská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic (e-mail: paul@sci.muni.cz)
The roles of risk assessment in the PHARE project of monitoring of air pollution in Slovakia will be focused to: design of sampling and analysis plan during the project implementation, characterisation of study area, inventory of air pollution sources, interpretation of the final data. The comparative risk screening analysis evaluates air pollution problems of selected sites in Slovakia. This risk assessment is based on the measurements of very good set of data concerning to selected ambient air inorganic and organic pollutants. The values of calculated cancer and non-cancer risks were not dramatically high and it can be state that in general the risk based on ambient air concentrations of observed pollutants is not high. By other hand, we cannot forget to nature of some pollutants and especially in the case of persistent organic pollutants such as PAHs, PCBs, Cl-Pest, PCDDs/Fs, we must calculate with long-term effects. As concerning to cancer and non-cancer risks - the main contributors to total risk values were done by volatile organic pollutants. In every localities during all sampling campaigns, these pollutants were dominated part of total risks. Their contributions in the case of cancer risk varied from 50 to 90 % and in the most of sampling sites these contributions were round 80%.
Work was supported by Phare Project EU/93/AIR/22 Local Studies of Air Quality in the Cities of Bratislava and Košice National Needs Assessment of Air Pollution.
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