The State of Water in Kosovo, 2010

Gjendja e Ujërave në Kosovë7.1.2 IBRI RIVER BASINThe Ibri River basin has a total of 17 monitoring stations. Three of them belong to theIbri River. The first station is located at Kushtovë and it shows for a satisfactory waterquality. The next monitoring station is located at the outskirts of town after all urban andother wastewater discharges that affect the water quality. This monitoring station showsfor poor water quality. The third station is located in Kelmend after contiguity point withSitnica River, which includes water from other sub-basins of this river basin. During themonitoring period is not observed any case to be alarmed, since at all monitoring pointsthe results are within the limits values under the category II.General comments on Ibri river basinSitnica river - Along its stream from Ferizaj to Mitrovica, it represents the most pollutedriver in Kosovo. Regarding the physical parameters such as suspended substances arepresent and exceed the maximum allowed values. This comes from the fact that in thisriver, are flowed one branch of the Nerodime River as well as rivers: Graqanka, Pristina,Drenica, Llapi, Trepca and other smaller water streams, where all these rivers convergeSitnica River and contain urban and industrial wastewater discharged. The measuredchemical parameters such as COD and BOD5 indicate also for the permanent riverpollution.Graqanka - as the result of water pumping of Kishnica and Artana mines into the GraqankaRiver, the water of this river is continually polluted. There are evidenced high values ofheavy metals such as zinc, nickel and lead. Also, there are registered high values ofwater conductivity and sulphate ion. It has to be mentioned that during the hot summerseason this river runs out of water.Prishtina - monitoring of the river is made in Bresje of Fushë Kosova, before to its flowinto the Sitnica River. Actually, it can not be named as a river, because it is rather a waterstream that collects all urban wastewater discharged by Pristina town. In this situation ithas exceeded quantity of nitrites, suspended materials, COD and CBO5, lack of dissolvedoxygen, detergents, etc..Llapi – This river is monitored since its river spring above the Reçica village, and continuesin outskirts of Podujeva town. The last (third) monitoring station is located in Millosevëbefore the contiguity with the Sitnica River. This river has no exceed of the MAV.Drenica – monitoring of the river starts from Komoran to the contiguity point with Sitnicain Vragoli. During the spring season it is showed a better quality at the first monitoringstation, while the second station in Vragoli shows for significant changes, such as theconductivity is increased for several hundred units, as a result of wastewater dischargesfrom surface mines of KEK.Shtime - There are two monitoring stations, one at the part where no external influencefrom human activity is identified and where the water quality is very good and the secondstation is located after the discharge of all urban wastewater from all surroundingvillages and the Shtime city itself, where the water quality of the river belong to a verypoor category.© Agjencia e Kosoves per Mbrojtjen e Mjedisit91120