In a note it is a question of an ecological situation on the Crimean peninsula, the harmful substances getting to the atmosphere from two main sources – the enterprises and motor transport.
Reorganization 2002
Not so ridiculously the joke about the citizen whom, having left on the nature today sounds and having taken a sip of clean air, fainted. Even in the Crimea, and now continuing to associate with the most non-polluting place of the country, people pass through the lungs almost Mendeleyev’s all table. Certainly, generally it is trouble of the cities, but also in villages not always easier to breathe. Now places with clean air on the peninsula can be counted on fingers.
Under gas
How many different harmful substances annually get to the atmosphere of the Crimea, it is not known. Monitoring is conducted on two main sources: to the enterprises (about 33 – 34 thousand tons) and motor transport (about 100 – 106 thousand tons).
The contribution of transport to lungs krymchan, was explained 1K a zavlaboratoriya of the center of ecological health of association Ecology and the world by Edward Berezovsky, it is necessary to count up separately – depending on engine type. Diesel usually throw out in air a soot large quantity – he tells. – Besides, at emissions is present benzapiren – this connection is extremely dangerous carcinogen. Level of maximum permissible concentration (maximum concentration limit) for it very low, is milligram shares on cubic meter of air. Internal combustion engines add sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide in air. And if the car works at natural gas, a large amount of formaldehyde – the strongest carcinogen jumps out, its contents shouldn’t exceed the three tenth milligram on air cubic meter. By the way, recently concentration of formaldehyde became higher – more cars use gas as fuel.
The industrial enterprises have a range of pollutants more almost on an order – what exactly they spoil air, depends on specialization and technology. For example, the boiler rooms working at fuel oil, pollute air soot, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, sulfur and even some radioactive elements.
Dangerous neighbourhood
Whether there were in the Crimea places where how in the song, it is free the person breathes? Ecologists consider that some sites of YuBK it is possible to call pure, but only not Yalta: it lies in a hollow and practically isn’t aired", and pollution, mostly because of transport, more and more. In places the Bakhchsarai and Saksky areas, yajly, the peninsula East – Shchelkino, the Old Crimea – can be attractive to fans of clean air, and also Evpatoria which is open for air streams.
Citizens consider as big convenience if to the next stop from the house to go only some minutes. Meanwhile the neighbourhood with brisk roads much more increases risk to ache from bad spirit. Edward Berezovsky considers: to be protected at least from motor transport influence, it is necessary to live not less than in 100 meters from the route. By the way, in Europe don’t use roadside territories for agriculture and gardening – just because plants accumulate all harmful substances from air, including automobile exhausts.
From strontium to radon
In separate group of pollutants of air ecologists began to allocate recently … smokers. The matter is that any plant, is unimportant, where it grows, selectively accumulates certain substances – Edward Berezovsky speaks. – Tobacco concentrates strontium and cadmium – very dangerous heavy metals, and also the whole bouquet of other substances. Besides, until recently tobacco fields (and this culture on one place grow up decades) were processed by preparations with arsenic. Arsenic remained in the soil, and plants continue it to accumulate. When smoking all this is released in lungs of smokers and into the atmosphere, no filters will help. So the one who doesn’t smoke, from air too can receive a sufficient dose of these substances. Heavy metals are dangerous to nervous system: sensitivity, touch, sense of smell are lost, control over normal work of an internal is lost. Therefore the person becomes more aggressive, there is an uneasiness, absent-mindedness, sleeplessness, it can’t concentrate.
Often pollutants form shock pairs, together causing to an organism truly a huge damage, strengthening action of each other, as, for example, formaldehyde and radon. The last substance – gas, the frequent guest in rooms, often collects in apartments on the first floor if the building is located on a geological fault (and it happens very often). How many krymchan breathe radon, nobody considered. The ecology and the world measured about 7 years ago concentration of radon in schools and kindergartens of the Crimea, having managed to survey about two tens. In a quarter from them concentration of gas was very high, is frequent in sports halls where just children and breathe more intensively. And when results compared to statistics of diseases in these educational institutions, exactly here and there was the greatest number of diseases of blood and ORZ – that are connected with immunity easing. In the Crimea there are qualified experts in SES, but the state practically doesn’t allocate funds for such researches. Recipes how to make air pure, in general, are plain: carefully to plan building, to watch quality of automobile fuel, to reduce emissions. But after all it is interesting only to those who thinks of the future for about 10 – 20 years forward. And those who exists one day, are sure, what they will manage to find for themselves a pure and safe corner.
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