Reports on Environment and Urban Development for Alaverdy

GEO ALAVERDI: ENVIRONMENT AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

atmosphere was 196,8 tonnes, 4% of which (7t) was the organic dust. It should be mentioned that there is no pollution prevention systems enacted hence all the substances released from the pollution sources appear in the environment. The Alaverdi air monitoring laboratory of the Environmental Impact Monitoring Center holds permanent monitoring of air pollution. Only in 2008 the 2 monitoring posts in the city had taken 6286 samples, to decide on dust, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and nitrogen oxide. The average annual concentration of sulfur dioxide was observed at high levels, exceeding the maximum allowable concentration (MAC) norms 11,8 times, and 1,7 times for nitrogen. The observed maximal concentration of sulfur dioxide in the 75% of the samples taken has exceeded the MAC 2,0 times. Compared to the previous year, no signi fi cant changes in the concentrations of the observed substances have been recorded.

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CHAPTER 3: STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Environmental Knowledge for Change