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A multiple excess of the content of poisonous gases in the air of Kyiv

Katerina Belousova

Specialists analyzed 1,488 air samples

In the air of Kyiv during the week with 24 to 29 in July, an excess of the average daily maximum allowable concentrations of nitrogen dioxide was found to be 4.1 times higher.

Compared to the previous week, the level of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide pollution has decreased, says the weekly report on air pollution from the Borys Sreznevsky Central Geophysical Observatory.

According to the observatory, the exceedance of the maximum permissible concentration (MPC) for the average daily content of nitrogen dioxide was:

  • in 2.5-4.1 times – on Demiivska, Halytska and Bessarabska squares, Obolonski prospect, Lesya Ukrainka boulevard, in the Hydropark area, Akademik Strazheska, Dovzhenka, Hetman Pavlo Polubotka, Inzhener Borodin, Kaunaska and Sklyarenko streets ;
  • no excesses were observed at 37 Nauky Ave. (in the area of ​​the meteorological station).

Exceeding the MPC by average daily content of sulfur dioxide:

  • in 1.3-1.8 times – on Demiivska, Bessarabska and Halytska squares, Obolonsky prospect, Akademik Strazheska, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Hetman Pavlo Polubotka, Inzhener Borodin, Kaunaska and Semyon Sklyarenko streets ;
  • no excesses were observed at 37 Nauky Ave. (in the area of ​​the meteorological station).

Exceeding the MPC by average daily formaldehyde content:

  • 1.2-2.4 times – on Demiivska, Bessarabska and Halytska squares, Nauka and Obolonski avenues, Lesya Ukrainka boulevard, in the Hydropark district, Akademik Strazheska, Dovzhenka, Hetman Pavla Polubotka, Kaunaska and Sklyarenko streets .

Exceeding the MPC by average daily carbon monoxide content:

  • 3.6 times – in the Hydropark area (July 25);
  • 2.3 times – on Mezhihirska Street (July 28);
  • 1.1-1.2 times – on Engineer Borodin and Sklyarenko streets (July 25 and 27) .

Specialists of the observatory collected and analyzed 1,488 samples of atmospheric air from 15 stationary posts.

As EcoPolitic reported earlier, in Kyiv, in the Shevchenkivskyi district, on the facade of a house on Zolotoustivska Street, 23, a mural "Family for a Four-Legged One" was opened. It depicts animal volunteer Anastasia Tykha, who took sick dogs out of Irpenya at the beginning of a full-scale invasion.

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