In the air of Kyiv during the week with November 28 to December 3, 2022, a 4.2-fold exceedance of the average daily maximum allowable concentrations of nitrogen dioxide was found.
Compared to the previous week, the content of impurities almost did not change, says the weekly report on air pollution from 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:
- 4.2 times (November 30) – in the Hydropark area;
- 2.0-3.3 times – on Demiivska and Bessarabska squares, Lesya Ukrainka boulevard, Obolonskyi and Peremogy avenues, Akademik Strazheska, Dovzhenka, Hetman Pavla Polubotka, 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:
- 1.7-2.5 times – on Demiivska and Bessarabska squares, Obolonskyi and Peremogy avenues, Lesya Ukrainka boulevard, in the Hydropark area, Akademika Strazheska streets (intersection with Vaclav Havel boulevard), Dovzhenka, Kaunaska, Hetman Pavla Polubotka and Semyon Sklyarenko streets ;
- no excesses were observed at 37 Nauky Ave. (in the area of the meteorological station).
Other exceedances of MPC by average daily content:
- carbon monoxide – 1.9 times on Sklyarenko Street;
- formaldehyde – in 1.0-1.5 times on Demiivska and Bessarabska squares, Obolonskyi and Peremogy avenues, Lesya Ukrainka boulevard, in the Hydropark district, Akademik Strazheska, Dovzhenka, Hetman Pavla Polubotka, Kaunaska and Sklyarenko streets.
Specialists of the observatory selected and analyzed 1322 atmospheric air samples from 15 stationary stations.
The report emphasized that with and according to the forecast of the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center, the nature of the weather will change in the next two to three days, warming and precipitation are expected, which will not contribute to the dispersion of harmful impurities in the surface layer of the atmosphere.
Earlier, EcoPolitic decided to make an independent analysis of water quality in pumping stations, rivers, lakes and ponds of Kyiv. For this purpose, we took water samples from the "Kyivvodfond" pumping stations and the city's reservoirs, which were sent to the laboratory of the Institute of Radiation Protection in Vyshgorod.
