Updates on Air Quality - Dublin · 10.7 0 .5 2 daily average value above 25 µg/m3 (WHO guide) 7 7...

Martin Fitzpatrick

Principal Environmental Health Officer

Air Quality Monitoring and Noise Control Unit

Dublin City Council

Updates on Air Quality


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•National Clean Air Strategy

•EPA Air Quality Report 2016

•The National Ambient Air Quality

Monitoring Programme (‘AAMP’)

•Cleaning Our Air Public Consultation to inform

the development of a National Clean Air Strategy

Dublin City Council made a submission


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Clean Air Strategy

Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Strategy due to be published in Quarter 1, 2018

EPA Air Quality Report 2016

Issued November 2017

http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/air/quality/epaairqualityreport2016.html

National Overview

No levels above the EU limit value were recorded at any of the ambient air quality

network monitoring sites in Ireland in 2016.

WHO guideline values were exceeded at a number of monitoring sites for particulate

matter (PM10and PM2.5), ozone, SO2 and NO2:

the PM10 24hr guideline was exceeded at 11 monitoring sites

the PM2.5 24hr guideline was exceeded at 9 monitoring sites and the annual

guideline at 2 monitoring sites

the Ozone guideline was exceeded at 7 monitoring sites

the SO2 24hr guideline was exceeded at 2 monitoring sites

the NO2 1hr guideline was exceeded at 1 monitoring site


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Dublin City Overview

Nitrogen dioxide


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36.6

27.6

17.3

18.6

30.2

EU annual mean limit value and WHO annual air quality guideline value are both

40 µg/m3.


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0.5 0

4.8 3

.0 2

10.7 0

.5 2

daily average value above

25 µg/m3 (WHO guide)

7 7

9 12

8.5 9

Particulates (Pm10 and PM 2.5)

EU mean limit value 40 µg/m3, WHO Guideline 20 µg/m3

EU annual limit value of 25 µg/m3, WHO Guideline 10 µg/m3

The National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme (‘AAMP’)

Announced by the EPA November 2017


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Comparison with other European networks Number of Air Monitoring

Stations

Population

(millions)

Air Monitoring Stations per

million of population

Scotland 91 5.3 17 per million

Northern Ireland 19 1.8 11 per million

Wales 41 3 14 per million

London 113 9.8 12 per million

Norway 52 5 10 per million

Ireland 30 4.8 6 per million

Setting the Context


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The Overall Vision

A new National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme to

be established under Section 65 of the EPA Act – to place air

quality monitoring on a statutory footing

Why

Provide comprehensive air quality data. Inform environmental

management policy. Improve health outcomes. Engage the

public.

What is proposed

A new five year programme consisting of three main pillars

A greatly expanded national monitoring network in three

tiers

Modelling and forecasting capability

Citizen science and citizen engagement initiatives

What the new programme deliver


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A greatly expanded national monitoring network with 68 automatic monitoring

stations, supplemented by mobile trailers and local monitoring sites in three tiers

Tier 1 – A core network of CAFE directive monitoring stations upgraded to

provide additional automatic real-time PM information

Tier 2 – A greatly expanded Air Quality Index for Health (AQIH) network. This will

consist of the existing CAFE network, the existing automatic EMEP network and

a further 38 sites

Tier 3 –Local air quality monitoring. To be progressed at an initial 15 sites


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Current and Proposed Networks

The road to implementation


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•Capital of €5M over five years and personnel commitment given by Government to

EPA

•Engagement with local authority partners

•Re-alignment of EPA resources

•Tendering and procurement

•Project planning and management

•Internal and external stakeholder communications

•Growing media engagement

•EPA as National Competent Authority and DCCAE to develop the National

Ambient Air Monitoring Framework in consultation with the CCMA

•EPA lead role in air quality monitoring to continue

•Partnership of local authorities and other public bodies will be key to successful

implementation

•Local Authorities using a regionalised approach to participate in national and

local air quality monitoring


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Ambient Air Monitoring Programme

Governance Structure


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Preliminary work by EPA with assistance from Dublin City Council

Nitrogen dioxide indicative study commenced 2016 – then consolidated into

wider study in Q1 2017

Purpose

Identify potential “hot spots” where additional permanent real time

monitoring would be merited

26 monitoring points in 6 areas of the city:

Heuston Station (4)

Bus Aras (4)

Ringsend (4)

North Wall (94)

Pearse St. (4)

Grand Canal (4)

Rathmines (2)

Particulate Monitoring–replace most existing analysers with real time analysers

Heuston Environs


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Bus Aras Environs

North Wall Docklands Environs


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Pearse Street


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Ringsend Environs

Grand Canal (Portobello – Rathmines)


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2017 NO2 Diffusion Tube Survey

Location March April May June July August September

Heuston 40-70 31-59 31-57 33-57 26-59 26-54 16-31

Busaras 49-62 33-50 36-47 40-53 32-47 33-46 20-28

North Wall 46-58 29-45 39-52 40-53 40-53 28-42 17-26

Ringsend 24-36 22-30 20-30 17-25 19-28 15-25 12-17

Pearse St. 53-78 46-77 42-72 46-74 42-72 41-64 24-36

Grand Canal 24-41 17-31 14-29 16-29 15-31 11-24 9-17

Rathmines 22-24 16-18 19-22 15-16 15 10-11 8

µg/m3


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