Project detail

Comprehensive assessment of soil contamination with pesticides and in-situ remediation leading to eliminate their entry into groundwater

Duration: 01.04.2023 — 31.12.2025

Funding resources

Technologická agentura ČR - 6. veřejná soutěž Program na podporu aplikovaného výzkumu, experimentálního vývoje a inovací v oblasti životního prostředí – Prostředí pro život

- whole funder (2023-04-01 - 2025-12-31)

On the project

Description in English
Main goal is to increase the knowledge on soil and water pollution with pesticide substances in the Czech Republic, to design and verify the efficiency of specific device (denitrifying bioreactor) for its reduction. Partial goals: 1) Comprehensive assessment of soil contamination with pesticide substances at selected places of CR. 2) Verification of usability of denitrifying bioreactors for simultaneous removal of pesticides and nitrates from agricultural land runoffs under pilot-plant conditions. 3) Monitoring of pesticide degradation and experimental testing of increasing the efficiency of biodegradation processes using biostimulation/bioaugmentation. Use of naturally occurring degraders such as bacteria and lower fungi from sites long-term contaminated with pesticide substances.

Key words in English
soil, pesticides, metabolites, groundwater, contamination, elimination, bioreactor, degradation

Mark

SS06020006

Default language

Czech

People responsible

Malá Jitka, doc. Ing., Ph.D. - fellow researcher
Sobotková Veronika, Ing., Ph.D. - fellow researcher
Hrich Karel, Ing., Ph.D. - principal person responsible

Units

Institute of Chemistry
- (2022-08-25 - not assigned)