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The Environmental Control Panel is a device that measures in real time air quality levels, offering two screens with information on pollution levels in the city and in the region and that change every thirty seconds

The new Environmental Control Panel Alum was presented this morning to the media at a ceremony attended by the council of the area of Environment, Francisco Espejo and Palazón Carolina, the deputy director general of Environmental Quality, embodies Molina, Repsol representatives, and the president of the neighborhood of Alum, Francisco Hernandez.

This new device (c / Madrid, next to Social Local) m ide real-time air quality levels. For its launch, it has had a specific computer design where citizens will see two screens simultaneously every 30 seconds to reflect the values ​​measured by Alums station.

Specifically, in the first of the screens will be three types of information: the last time recorded in the station time and the average value of the contaminants, and the index of the quality of air in relation to the different colors displayed, and finally, three tables that reflect the accumulation of hourly average values ​​from the twelve o'clock the previous day to the time when the panel is displayed, as Molina has qualified embodies.

After thirty seconds, the second screen contains the global value of the air in the Region of Murcia.

An important fact is that the air quality in Alums, in the words of assistant principal, has improved compared to last year, driven in part by the normalization of the functioning of the Repsol refinery. Likewise, if in 2012 the legal value of 350 was exceeded by 23 times, the maximum being 24, this year has been exceeded only once in the month of May, without implying an alert to the population.

This panel, sued by neighbors, has been possible thanks to the collaboration and to work from the city of Cartagena, the Directorate General of Environment of the Autonomous Community and Repsol, which has reduced the cost, initially priced at 40,000 Euro.

SUPERACIÃ "LÃ N LIMIT OF OZONE IN THE ALJORRA

Embodies Molina has also responded to questions by journalists in relation to overcoming the limits of ozone pollution in the Aljorra, and other locations as Lorca and Sewer.

Molina has clarified that the stations represent the air quality of an area, and that in the case of the Aljorra, was exceeded year average value, the maximum number being 25, while in the town of Cartagena was reached 52 times .

In relation to this problem, from the regional government is working on an action plan, a draft of which is nearing completion, and it addresses what actions must be taken by the various actors involved.

This plan, which possibly will be released in the second half, in the words of Molina, emphasizes the need to sensitize the population to learn to live with this contaminant along with other preventive measures.

These actions taken by the regional authorities are complemented by the recent National Plan approved by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, which emphasizes the need to study the behavior of ozone effective interventions leg. And, according to the deputy Ozone is a national problem and overcoming pollutant values ​​tend to be the days of increased solar radiation.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena