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The Board of Quality of Air, chaired by the Councilor for the Quality of Life Area, Francisco Calderón, and which also comprise the Department of Industry, directed by Obdulia Gómez, the political groups of the Municipal Government as well as interested groups, has met This morning to discuss the installation of new air gauging stations and the measures to be taken to reduce the emissions of harmful substances and their control.
"The meeting has been very fruitful," said Calderón, who has reported that two new contamination measuring immission stations will be installed, which he places near Savic and in the Escombreras valley in the most suitable location to make the Measurements in a reliable way.
These are measuring stations that the Ministry of Water, Agriculture and Environment promised to install from the European funds Feder.
There has also been a need to replace the stations in Cartagena.
Of the 11 installed, only 8 remain in operation, and all of them are obsolete both by the way of transmitting data and the substances they control.
For this reason it is going to claim to the Ministry of the Environment that they are going to replace all of them to the soonest, given the high industrial activity that is in the Shire that requires a comprehensive control of the quality of the air, informed the councilman.
"From the City Hall you want to know in detail the air you are breathing.
They have been many years with a whole vale, and this government says no, that with the health of the people does not play ", it has declared.
On the other hand, the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) has shown its willingness to lead work on certain pollutants of industrial origin, their impact on the atmosphere and general impact on society.
The goal of this measure would focus on compounds such as Bisphenol A (BPA), in addition to other contaminants.
Once the purpose of the educational institution has been determined, it is still necessary to determine the way in which this intention would materialize in collaboration with two of the main industrial centers, SABIC and the Valle de Escombreras.
The councilman has indicated that Sabic has shown his predisposition to install the necessary filters and maintain them.
A request has also been made to the AEVE, the Association of Entrepreneurs of the Valley of Escombreras, to place an immission control station with the parameters to be determined depending on the manufacturing processes.
From the Consistory is intended that all these measures are taken by the industries themselves from their own budget.
Other measures taken to limit the pollutant effect of emissions are the enhancement of daily cleaning in schools, parks and public thoroughfares in areas near those industrial centers, as well as the enhancement and promotion of epidemiological studies, Newspaper.
OBJECT AND COMPOSITION OF THE TABLE
The Air Quality Table was created last June to become a cross-cutting and consultative forum to learn the points of view of the different agents involved and increase the level of control over air quality in the municipality. Incidence in places of special conflict.
Among the declared objectives of the Air Quality Table is progress in measures for environmental control, such as the enhancement of metering stations.
The Air Quality Table is composed of municipal technicians;
Spokespersons for municipal groups;
Representatives of the General Directorates of Quality and Environmental Assessment;
Energy, Industrial and Mining Activity;
Of Public Safety and Emergencies and of Public Health;
The Escombreras Valley Business Association (AEVE);
The Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering of the UPCT (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena);
The Association of Naturalists of the Southeast (ANSE);
The Neighborhood Board and neighborhood associations of Alumbres, La Aljorra, Vista Alegre and the Middle Legua, members of the management of Health Area II, Local Police, Fire and Civil Protection.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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