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Air Pollution in Southall is a Health Emergency 19/Jul/22

Date: Tue 19 Jul 2022
Time: 7 pm - 8:30 pm
Description:
Air pollution from the Green Quarter is causing a health emergency in Southall

Guest speaker Tim Webb, a Citizen Scientist, will be sharing his analysis of data from the AQ monitors in the vicinity of the Green Quarter.

Our other guest speaker, Dr Lorna Anguilano, Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director of the Wolfson Centre for Sustainable materials development and processing will share her analysis of soil samples taken from the vicinity of the Green Quarter.

At the beginning of November/December 2021 independent air quality monitoring commenced in the vicinity of the Green Quarter, formerly Southall Gasworks.

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An air quality monitoring station, two additional sensors and diffusion tubes have been installed. Concern was expressed about the discounting of a high PM10 reading on one of the sensors on 19th December which was removed from the data record.

In response to a query, Ricardo AEA informed the enquirer that moisture caused by foggy conditions could have interfered with the sensor. Data for EGQ North and South sensors and the AQ monitoring station can be viewed here.

Concern has also been expressed that no diffusion tubes have been located along the boundary of the Green Quarter by the Grand Union canal. At the beginning of sampling for individual VOCs in the summer of 2018, 104 were sampled. Currently considerably less are being sampled on a two weekly basis:

• Benzene • Toluene • Ethylbenzene • m&p-Xylene • o-Xylene • Napthalene • 1,2,4 Trimethylbenzene • 1,3,5 Trimethylbenzene • Styrene • Trichloroethene • chlorobenzene, • Methyl-tertiary-butyl ether • Isopropylbenzene • Bromobenzene • 2-Chlorotoluene, • M n-Propylbenzene • 4-Chlorotoluene • tert-Butylbenzene • 1,3-Dichlorobenzene • sec-Butylbenzene • 1,4-Dichlorobenzene • M 4-Isopropyltoluene • 1,2-Dichlorobenzene • n-Butylbenzene • 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene, • 1,2,3-Trichlorobenzene

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Residents have detected strong odours in this area whilst walking along the towpath. In order to evaluate and express the measurement of VOC data as annual mean concentration level, this data will be available in early 2023 according to a response to an EIR request. However, CASH will challenge this, as Cllr Peter Mason informed CASH that a timely update report based on the period of analysis to be completed after every 6 months of collected data will be made public by the council, so the expectation is that the first report will be available Summer 2022.

We will be joined by Tim Webb, who is a Citizen Scientist and has been studying Air Quality and Air Pollution episodes for the past five years. Tim offers support and advice to Communities affected by Airborne Pollutants and apart from running his own private network of Air Monitoring sensors, also reads up extensively on the latest Scientific Papers connected with all aspects of Air Quality. His specialist subject is studying how particles and gases suspended in the air are dispersed and how far they travel from their sources.

He has been involved behind the scenes supporting CASH now for the past three years and has been assisting with analysis of Pollutant levels. Tim will be sharing his opinions and offering his analysis regarding the official data provided since November 2021 by Air Quality England, relating to the three Monitoring sites in Southall.

The Zoom link for the webinar will be emailed to attendees, closer to the date.

Register on Eventbrite for the Air Pollution in Southall is a Health Emergency ONLINE public meeting on Zoom, 19 July 2022 at 7pm.

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