Air Quality in Westminster

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Air Quality in Westminster

• The most (air) polluted area in the UK?
• The first to declare an AQMA 9th March 1999
• The first to publish an Air Quality Action Plan
• BUT where do we go from here?

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Spatial distribution sites across London
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Sites in Westminster
You are here

• Two main AURN monitoring sites
• Marylebone Road
• Horseferry Road
• Four other NOx sites
• Four other PM10 sites
• 17 NO2 diffusion tubes
• Plus lead, smoke PAH and benzene sites

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Marylebone Road

• Monitoring at Council House
• Outside University of Westminster
• Option to resurrect OPSIS

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Oxford Street

• PM10 and NO2 diffusion tube

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Pollution where does it come from?

• Road traffic

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like this!
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Pollution mapping .

• Busy roads

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NO2 pollution looks like this from diffusion
tubes .
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Covent Garden and PaddingtonNitrogen dioxide
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What else

• There is more air quality data out there than we
  know what do do with.
• The challenge is to make BEST VALUE of it!!!