Short description

Persistent organic and inorganic pollutants enter the soil via various pathways. To prevent the accumulation of undesirable substances in soils, a limitation of the substance load input by soil law and other relevant regulations is required. Therefore, the substance flows leading to a significant accumulation of pollutants in soils and causing detrimental soil alterations must be identified.

The project aims to develop a spatially differentiated model for balancing the input, output and accumulation of substances in soils via various input and output pathways. Therefore, the model instrument MoRE, which is already established and used for the quantification of substance emissions into river basins, will be adapted and further developed for the soil compartment. The model system is intended to address issues of preventive soil protection and, in particular, to develop the necessary technical basis for updating the current material requirements for limiting unavoidable substance inputs.