Water pollution: releases of toxic metals France

This statistic represents the evolution of releases of toxic metals in water by industry and urban wastewater treatment plants in France from 2008 to 2013, in tons. In 2013, the volume of releases of toxic metals amounted to about 580 tons, after an increase in releases of more than 1,100 tons in 2009 and 2010.

Evolution of toxic metal discharges into water by industry and urban wastewater treatment plants in France from 2008 to 2013 * (in tons)

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Release date

February 2016

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Region

France

Survey time period

2008 - 2013

Special properties

Metropolitan France

Supplementary notes

* As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Zn, Pb

The source adds the following information: "Notes: discharges into the aquatic environment of facilities subject to the annual declaration of pollutants in metropolitan France are recorded: industries, urban wastewater treatment plants, excluding discharges from basic nuclear installations; the erroneous declaration of an urban wastewater treatment plant has been withdrawn "

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