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The Councilor for Quality of Life, Francisco Calderon, chaired Friday the Air Quality Table, which was attended by the Director General of Quality and Environmental Assessment of the Autonomous Community, María Encarnación Molina Miñano and the Councilor for Industry and Tourism , Agriculture, Rural Development and Coastal Fishing, Obdulia Gómez, along with representatives of the municipal groups, Local Police and Firemen, among other municipal services, and where it has been announced that, if necessary, it is possible to change the situation Of the measuring station of Cartagena.
Thus, through the system of forecasting and diagnosis of the air quality of the Autonomous Community, it is possible to analyze if the facilities available in the Region are correct.
"The correct locations are already being studied in accordance with the Royal Decree for Improvement of Air Quality, although it is going to be studied with the City Council a possible change of the station that prevents the trees from preventing the station from measuring well," he has confirmed The general director.
In this way, Calderon has visited the measuring station along with the director general this Friday to verify for themselves if that change is necessary and have ensured that "what will be determined by the technicians in the short, medium and long term."
The mayor of Quality of Life has expressed his satisfaction for the collaboration between the City of Cartagena and the Ministry of Environment, and has trusted that "more than one analyzer will be placed" in the municipality, as both institutions pursue "tranquility Of the people and do not raise the alarm ".
Likewise, it has announced that measurements of Bisphenol A (BPA) will be carried out for the first time worldwide to see its effects reaching the lungs.
To this end, he has assured that Cartagena will have contributions from the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) and the research of Dr. Estela Moreno Grau, who will also collaborate with the Ministry and companies to seek "clarity and transparency" and has presented The methodology it has developed to measure this substance.
In this sense, Molina explained that the residents of La Aljorra had expressed their uncertainty about the presence of BPA in the environment, but the company they claimed had assured during the meeting on Friday that it does not burn in its facilities this compound " But another that may have traces of BPA. "
The director general pointed out that "those values ​​are regulated in emission" and now, for the sake of the neighbors, the obligation to measure the substance in the environment will be included in the emission authorization of the company, so that Not to incorporate all the citizenship of the Region that cost, but to pay the company itself. "
The data provided by these measurements will thus give information so that Public Health can make decisions as to whether the concentrations found, if found, can be detrimental or not to health.
In addition, he recalled that last year was launched a Regional Air Quality Improvement Plan that runs until 2018, with the objective of recovering the values ​​that have been exceeded in the Region of Murcia, which are ozone And the NOX since "no other value has been exceeded".
Molina said that "the data, which are exposed in the air quality portal of the Region, show that since 2010 the thresholds have not been exceeded nor alert or information to the population of air quality parameters" .
In this sense, he explained that "the triennial average values ​​of ozone have been exceeded" in some parts of the Region, but that "in Cartagena is very well, we are well below the values ​​set by law."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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