In continuous automatic mode with sampling every 20 seconds
Today, specialists of the Ministry of Ecology and GBU "NPO Geocenter RT" demonstrated to journalists the work of a new automatic air pollution control station.
This station became the 17th AAPCS operating on the territory of Tatarstan and it was installed at the request of residents in the Salavat Kupere microdistrict.
"Our new station is already equipped with gas analyzers to monitor the content of major pollutants in the air, such as carbon monoxide, ammonia, nitrogen oxide, nitrogen dioxide, the sum of nitrogen oxides, hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide. In the near future, it is planned to retrofit the station with an automated chromatographic complex for the determination of aromatic hydrocarbons in the atmospheric air," said Artur Vildanov, Deputy Director for Analytical Activities of the State Budgetary Institution "NPO Geocenter RT". All information from the station is received in real time simultaneously both to the Ministry of Ecology and to the subordinate organization of the GBU "NPO Geocenter RT".
The station operates in the system of summary calculations of atmospheric air pollution for the city of Kazan. This system was developed by the Institute of Ecology and Subsoil Use Problems of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan.
"Such a system is a consolidated database that includes all sources of emissions from the city of Kazan. Further, this software product allows one to build maps of the dispersion of these pollutants and see where the influence of which sources is greatest. It was taking into account all these data and the scattering map that the point for the installation of this station was determined," Olga Manidicheva explained the choice of the location of the AAPCS. It is installed next to Lyceum No. 188.
Automatic measurements and the selected location will allow for monitoring the quality of atmospheric air online in the zone of influence of nearby enterprises and facilities, including such as PJSC Kazanorgsintez, the MSW landfill of the Housing and communal services and others.
These enterprises are assigned to the federal environmental supervision, and, in case of fixing the excess, the information will be transmitted to the Volga-Kama interregional Department of Rosprirodnadzor for taking a response measure. In addition, to strengthen the control of atmospheric air, from March 1, the air quality monitoring will also be carried out by the laboratory of the Central Laboratory of Rosprirodnadzor.
Let us recall that last year and at the beginning of this year, a surge in citizens' appeals on the quality of atmospheric air was recorded in the Kirovsky and Moscovsky districts of Kazan, as well as in the area of the residential complex "Salavat Kupere". The Ministry of Ecology, together with employees of the Volga-Kama Interregional Department of Rosprirodnadzor, conducted visits for sampling atmospheric air, including with the participation of residents of the residential complex "Salavat Kupere" to identify potential sources of periodic air pollution. It turned out that the main potential sources could be the MSW landfill on Khimicheskaya Street, Kazan, operated by the MC "PZhKH", gas flares operated by PJSC "Kazanorgsintez" and LLC UETP-NKNH. Information about all 3 objects was transferred to the Volga-Kama Interregional Department of Rosprirodnadzor for inspection together with the Kazan Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor's Office. According to the results of the inspections, a number of gross violations were found during the operation of the landfill of the MC "PZhKH". Also, considering that complaints from residents do not stop, the Ministry of Ecology initiated an interdepartmental meeting with the participation of the head of the department Alexander Shadrikov, the leadership of the Volga-Kama Interregional Department of Rosprirodnadzor, the Department of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare in the Republic of Tatarstan, the Executive Committee of Kazan. As a result of the meeting, priority tasks were identified and a roadmap was developed to eliminate odors and reduce emissions into the atmosphere from the MSW landfill on Khimicheskaya Street. The fulfillment of the deadlines for the implementation of the plan will be monitored by the Volga-Kama Interregional Department of the Federal Service for Supervision of Nature Management.