HPK Draksenić

Above guideline value

Kozarska Dubica Industrial site Site ID: BiH-RS-2 Report date: 2025-09-25

Note. This is a preliminary assessment. The general conclusion of the report is that the location requires further detailed analysis. The data shown is not a final risk determination.

Media tested

Soil
Water

Summary

HPK Draksenić is a large corn-processing chemical plant — a factory for starch, starch derivatives and syrup — in the Draksenić settlement near Kozarska Dubica, on flat, mostly agricultural land beside a main road. The complex covers about fifteen hectares and lies over a shallow, highly sensitive aquifer that flows toward the river Sava. Soil testing showed that cadmium and nickel across the plant grounds, and cobalt and chromium in places, were above the level at which land is no longer considered clean, while the soil by the greenhouse also held elevated legacy pesticides — but no substance reached a level indicating a need for cleanup. In the plant's wastewater, lead and iron exceeded the permitted limits.

Assessment findings

Findings of concern

In the soil, cadmium and nickel across the whole plant site, and cobalt and chromium in places, were above the level at which land is no longer considered clean.
The soil by the greenhouse held elevated legacy pesticides, above the level at which land is no longer considered clean.
In the plant's wastewater, lead and iron exceeded the permitted limits, and copper was of poorer quality in the channel through which the wastewater flows out.

Positive findings

No tested substance or pesticide in the soil reached the level indicating a need for cleanup — the most serious threshold was not exceeded anywhere at the site.
Copper, lead, zinc, arsenic and mercury in the soil were within the prescribed limits, as were oil-related pollutants, combustion-related compounds and related volatile compounds.
Many tested substances in the plant's water met the prescribed quality limits.

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The project results have been submitted to the competent institutions as a basis for improving regulation and for strategic planning of further activities.

Legal basis

Rulebook on limit and remediation values of polluting, harmful and hazardous substances in soil (Official Gazette of RS No. 82/21)
Decree on water classification and watercourse categorization (Official Gazette of RS No. 42/01)
Rulebook on the conditions for discharging wastewater into surface waters (Official Gazette of RS No. 44/01)

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