Montenegro

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Tuzla

Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina - The area of Tuzla municipality is one of the most polluted areas in B&H, especially in three following segments:  (a) worst air quality - due to emissions from thermo power plant, industrial heat production facilities and individual heating systems; (b) most polluted water streams - due to enormous discharge of waste waters; and (c) significant areas with degraded soil - due to uncontrolled exploitation of coal, salt and quark sand.
According to available data, pollutions from industrial heat production facilities and individual heating systems are the second major pollutant in the area. Air quality in urban part of Tuzla during heating season is mostly II and III category (polluted or very polluted air), and very often there are episodes of critical air pollution especially with sulphur dioxide with concentration of 400 μg/m³, which is 3-4 times more than maximum allowed amount.

The proposed intervention under this programme would enable the Clinical Medical Centre Tuzla and its Clinic for Lung Diseases to be connected to the Tuzla city district heating system. This would enable the two Centres to cease producing heat in their facilities and creating the air pollution by combusting large amounts of dark coal, which contains large percentage of particularly dangerous sulphur.