In the air of Kyiv during the week with 10 to 15 in October 2022, an excess of the average daily maximum allowable concentrations of nitrogen dioxide was found to be 9.6 times higher.
Compared to the previous week, the level of nitrogen dioxide pollution increased, and formaldehyde and carbon monoxide decreased, report the Borys Sreznevsky Central Geophysical Observatory.
According to the data of the observatory, the exceeding of the maximum permissible concentration (MPC) in terms of the average daily content of nitrogen dioxide was:
- 9.6 times – on October 11 at Victory Square;
- in 6.0-6.3 times – on October 14-15 on Inzhenera Borodin Street and Kaunaska Street;
- 3.4-4.9 times – on Bessarabska and Demiivska squares, Peremogy Avenue, Lesya Ukrainka Boulevard, Semena Sklyarenko Street;
- in 2.1-2.8 times – on Obolonsky prospect, in the Hydropark area, Akademik Strazheska streets (intersection with Vaclav Havel boulevard), Dovzhenka, Hetman Pavla Polubotka streets,
- no excesses were observed at 37 Nauky Ave. (in the area of the meteorological station).
Other exceedances of MPC by average daily content:
- of formaldehyde – by 1.2-2.2 times on Demiivska, Bessarabska and Peremoha squares, Peremoha, Nauka and Obolonski avenues, Lesya Ukrainka boulevard, in the Hydropark area, Akademika Strazheska, Dovzhenka, Kaunaska, Hetman Pavla Polubotka and Sklyarenko streets;
- of suspended solids – 1.1 times on Peremogy Avenue (Sviatoshyn metro area);
- of carbon monoxide – 1.2 times on October 14 on Mezhihirska Street.
Specialists of the observatory selected and analyzed 1590 atmospheric air samples from 16 stationary stations.
The message noted that according to forecasts of the Ukrhydrometeorological center, the nature of the weather will change for the next two to three days – probable rains and increased wind speed, a slight decrease in temperature. This will not contribute to the accumulation of harmful impurities in the surface layer of the atmosphere.
As EcoPolitic reported before, in Kyiv, Russian missile strikes on one of the CHP plants on October 10 caused a large-scale clogging of an open plot of land with waste. Damage to the environment amounted to almost 21 million hryvnias.
