1 Air Quality Air Quality Monitoring Monitoring and and Noise Control Noise Control Unit Unit Dublin City Dublin City Council Council Martin Fitzpatrick Principal Environmental Health Officer
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1 Air Quality Monitoring and Noise Control Unit Dublin City
Council Air Quality Monitoring and Noise Control Unit Dublin City
Council Martin Fitzpatrick Principal Environmental Health
Officer
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2 Functions of Air Quality Monitoring and Noise Control
UnitFunctions of Air Quality Monitoring and Noise Control Unit Why
do we measure air quality?Why do we measure air quality? What
pollutants do we monitor?What pollutants do we monitor? Where do we
monitor?Where do we monitor? What is air quality like in
Dublin?What is air quality like in Dublin? How does it compare to
other cities? How does it compare to other cities? How can the
public find out about air quality in Dublin ?How can the public
find out about air quality in Dublin ?
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4 AIR QUALITY STANDARDS REGULATIONS 2002 Air Quality Standards
Consolidates all EU Directives Reference Methods Public information
Requirements
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7 ISO 9001: 2000 Certification
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9 Summary Overall air quality is relatively good but some
locations show elevated levels Predominant pollutants are traffic
emissions Vehicle numbers and kilometres travelled continues to
rise New vehicle and clean fuel technologies Vs. Increase in
Vehicles
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11 EU Life Resolution Research Project 142 sites Benzene and
Nitrogen Dioxide Six campaigns between September 2000 and July 2001
RESEARCH
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12 Public information Requirements Local authorities required
to connect all real time monitoring to a central EPA database for
dissemination through the media such as internnet, aertel,
etc.
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13 DIOXINS - SOURCES &EFFECTS SOME 419 TYPES OF
DIOXIN-RELATED COMPOUNDS IDENTIFIED, OF WHICH 30 ARE CONSIDERED TO
HAVE SIGNIFICANT TOXICITY NATURAL SOURCES INCLUDE VOLCANIC
ERUPTIONS AND FOREST FIRES MAN-MADE SOURCES INCLUDE SMELTING,
BLEACHING OF PAPER PULP, INCINERATION AND THE MANUFACTURING OF SOME
HERBICIDES AND PESTICIDES EXPOSURE - SHORT TERM MAY RESULT IN SKIN
LESIONS, AND ALTERED LIVER FUNCTION. LONG-TERM MPAIRMENT OF THE
IMMUNE SYSTEM, THE DEVELOPING NERVOUS SYSTEM, THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
AND REPRODUCTIVE FUNCTIONS. CHRONIC EXPOSURE OF ANIMALS TO DIOXINS
HAS RESULTED IN SEVERAL TYPES OF CANCER.
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14 DIOXIN EMISSIONS INVENTORY FOR IRELAND PUBLISHED BY EPA IN
2002 93G OF DIOXINS WERE GENERATED IN 2000. OF THIS, 73% OF
EMISSIONS WERE GENERATED BY UNCONTROLLED COMBUSTION ACTIVITIES NINE
INDUSTRIAL INCINERATORS CURRENTLY OPERATING IN IRELAND RESPONSIBLE
FOR 0.015% OF EMISSIONS. DIOXIN EMISSIONS ARE PROJECTED TO INCREASE
FROM 93G IN 2000 TO 110G IN 2010 DEFRA (UK) - 14% OF ANNUAL
EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH NOVEMBER 5 BONFIRES
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15 THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF INCINERATORS FOR MUNICIPAL
AND HAZARDOUS WASTE, AS PROPOSED IN REGIONAL AND NATIONAL PLANS,
WOULD CONTRIBUTE 17% OF PROJECTED EMISSIONS. THE BULK OF THESE
DIOXINS WILL BE CONTAINED IN INCINERATOR ASH WHICH WILL HAVE TO BE
MANAGED UNDER CONTROLLED CONDITIONS AT LICENSED FACILITIES, THEREBY
LIMITING ANY POTENTIAL RELEASE OF DIOXINS TO THE ENVIRONMENT. THESE
PROPOSED INCINERATORS WOULD CONTRIBUTE 2% OF PROJECTED DIOXIN
EMISSIONS TO AIR