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The councilor of the Municipal Socialist Group, Enrique Ayuso, has criticized on Sunday the lack of a municipal action plan against air pollution episodes in Murcia, and has indicated that the measuring stations of the Autonomous Community of Alcantarilla-Murcia and San Basilio "Are insufficient for a municipality that has had a great development of road infrastructure and urbanization."
In this sense, Ayuso has assured that the existing stations "have obsolete equipment, with frequent technical failures and breakdowns, and also do not report contaminants as worrying as the PM2.5 microparticles or Sulfur Dioxide, which has a high incidence of health ".
The recent report on air quality in the Region of Murcia during 2016 by the Ecologistas en Acción association based on official Community data has revealed a worrying increase in some of the most harmful air pollutants Of people in the municipality of Murcia.
"The conclusions of this report coincide with the demands of the Ombudsman to the City of Murcia, which at the end of last year asked our Consistory, along with thirteen other municipalities, information on short-term action plans to combat this Type of pollution, "explained Ayuso.
The mayor of the PSOE has demanded the councilman of Urbanism, Environment and Huerta "to implement a short-term action plan that establishes the measures to be carried out in situations of notice, overcoming the limits of information and in situations Of overcoming pollutant alert limits in Murcia ".
The socialists highlight as troubling the high levels of tropospheric ozone, which has exceeded the limit values ​​of the World Health Organization more than a hundred times last year (one hundred four exceedances detected in the Alcantarilla-Murcia station and eighty in the Of San Basilio), surpassing even the high values ​​of previous years.
The Councilor of the Socialist Group has insisted that excess ozone pollution can cause respiratory problems, cause asthma, reduce lung function and lead to lung diseases.
Today it is one of the most important air pollutants in Europe.
"The seventeen exceedances in 2016 of the values ​​of Suspended Particles (PM10) measured at the San Basilio station and the five exceedances at the Alcantarilla-Murcia station are also alarming. As well as the high detected values ​​of Nitrogen Dioxide in The station of San Basilio "has continued.
This report has also shown increases in other years of volatile hydrocarbon derivatives such as Toluene and Xylene, with numerous episodes of pollution with abnormally high hourly peaks.
Ayuso also recalled that "also concern the episodes of bad odors associated with discharges, sewage, or poor state of sewage, such as those recently recorded in San Ginés or in the Zaraiche irrigation canal.
"The origin of this problem in our municipality is mainly in the emissions originated by the traffic, the industries and the heating, reason why it is necessary effective measures for a reduction of the air pollution, as the reduction and pacificación of the traffic Motorist, as well as greater pressure on industrial activity in the polygons to control and limit their pollutant emissions, "said the Socialist councilor, who concluded by urging the Ballesta government to bet on sustainable mobility," with the improvement of Public transport, more pedestrian areas, improvement and extension of the bicycle lanes and public bicycles network, deterrent car parks, platforms reserved for public transport and the promotion of electric vehicles.
Source: PSOE Murcia
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