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Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

Answer

Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what levels and type of pollution were measured in the Ribble Valley in each year since 1994. [131647] Mr. Hill: Ribble Valley Borough Council (RVBC) established an air quality monitoring station in Chatburn in 1997. It is equipped to continuously monitor sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and PM10 particulates. The following data have been obtained: Chatburn air quality _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Sulphur dioxide Nitrogen dioxide PM10 Date Maximum 15 Number of Maximum 1 hour Number of Maximum 4 hour Number of minute mean exceedences of mean recorded exceedences of mean recorded exceedences of recorded (ppb) the 15 minute (ppb) the 1 hour mean (ugm3) the 24 hour mean mean for SO2 for NO2 (105ppb) for PM10 (100ppb) (50ug/m3) April-September 1997 110 7 40 0 54 1 October 1997-March 1998 110 2 57 0 59 6 April-September 1998 107 2 26 0 53 1 October 1998-March 1999 59 0 38 0 43 0 April-September 1999 49 0 69 0 52 1 October 1999-March 2000 66 0 38 0 54 2 AQS objective 100 35/yr 105 18/yr 50 35/yr _________________________________________________________________________________________________. RVBC has concluded that the air quality in Chatburn already meets the Government's air quality objectives. The Environment Agency also collects a large amount of monitoring data from the individual industrial sites it regulates. All these data are available on the public registers.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

354 c394W; 131647

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Air pollution Exhaust emissions Monitoring Lancashire Sulphur dioxide Nitrogen dioxide Ribble Valley Borough Council

Contains statistics

Yes

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