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Ecologists in Action complained to the City Cartagena and the Ministry of Agriculture and Water, an ozone pollution episode. On Sunday October 10 there was a threshold for information (180 micrograms per cubic meter), detected by the metering station Mompean, affecting over one hour at Cartagena. According to provisional data from the website on air quality of the Ministry.
http://www.carm.es/cmaot/calidadaire/portal
The ozone pollution legislation provides, among several parameters [1] and threshold information to the public is when you exceed 180 micrograms per cubic meter on average in an hour.
In Cartagena was reached at the 1'00 h.
a value of 187 micrograms per cubic meter.
The gaseous pollutant ground level ozone (ozone at ground level), is formed by sunlight reacting with pollutants like nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) emissions from road traffic or industry .
Ozone effects on public health: Irritation of the airways and throat, coughing and chest discomfort and aggravation of diseases such as asthma and bronchopulmonary diseases.
Royal Decree 1796/2003 on the pollutant ozone, laid down in Annex II to take measures in case of exceeding the threshold of information to the population, which are:
1) Informing the public on observed exceedance.
2) forecast for the following afternoon / day (s).
3) Information about the type of population concerned, possible effects on human health and safety precautions.
4) Information on preventive measures to reduce pollution or exposure to it
The environmental organization has asked the regional administration was not informed why the people of Cartagena of these measures through the media, as provided in Article 6.4.b) of Royal Decree.
Precisely the Ombudsman ruled in favor of this association in a similar complaint about the lack of information threshold exceedance of Information to the public in summer 2007.
Ecologists in Action for the threshold for informing the public adds to ozone pollution this summer has been the Sewell area, Murcia City and the municipality of Lorca that have led to a deterioration of air quality in our region .
This organization has been proposing for several years the need for coordinated action between local and regional authorities to act on ozone precursor pollutants: nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) emissions from vehicles or industry, in the context of developing a Regional Plan to Improve Air Quality.
[1] Royal Decree 1796/2003 of 26 December, on the ozone in the air ambiente.http: / / aire.medioambiente.xunta.es/docs/lexislacion/espanhola/rd_1796_2003_O3.pdf
DIRECTIVE 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and Council of May 21, 2008 on ambient air quality and cleaner air in Europe: www.cne.es/cne/doc/legislacion/Directiva_2008-50.pdf
Source: Ecologistas en Acción
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