Updates on Air Quality. Martin Fitzpatrick Principal Environmental Health Officer Air Quality Monitoring and Noise Control Unit Dublin City Council

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1 Updates on Air Quality Martin Fitzpatrick Principal Environmental Health Officer

2 National Clean Air Strategy EPA Air Quality Report 2016 The National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme ( AAMP )

3 Clean Air Strategy Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment Cleaning Our Air Public Consultation to inform the development of a National Clean Air Strategy made a submission Strategy due to be published in Quarter 1, 2018

4 EPA Air Quality Report 2016 Issued November National Overview No levels above the EU limit value were recorded at any of the ambient air quality network monitoring sites in Ireland in WHO guideline values were exceeded at a number of monitoring sites for particulate matter (PM 10 and PM 2.5 ), ozone, SO 2 and NO 2 : the PM 10 24hr guideline was exceeded at 11 monitoring sites the PM hr guideline was exceeded at 9 monitoring sites and the annual guideline at 2 monitoring sites the Ozone guideline was exceeded at 7 monitoring sites the SO 2 24hr guideline was exceeded at 2 monitoring sites the NO 2 1hr guideline was exceeded at 1 monitoring site

5 Dublin City Overview Nitrogen dioxide EU annual mean limit value and WHO annual air quality guideline value are both 40 µg/m 3.

6 Particulates (Pm 10 and PM 2.5 ) EU mean limit value 40 µg/m 3, WHO Guideline 20 µg/m 3 daily average value above 25 µg/m3 (WHO guide) EU annual limit value of 25 µg/m 3, WHO Guideline 10 µg/m 3

7 The National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme ( AAMP ) Announced by the EPA November 2017

8 Setting the Context Comparison with other European networks Number of Air Monitoring Stations Population (millions) Air Monitoring Stations per million of population Scotland per million Northern Ireland per million Wales per million London per million Norway per million Ireland per million

9 The Overall Vision A new National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme to be established under Section 65 of the EPA Act to place air quality monitoring on a statutory footing Why Provide comprehensive air quality data. Inform environmental management policy. Improve health outcomes. Engage the public. What is proposed A new five year programme consisting of three main pillars A greatly expanded national monitoring network in three tiers Modelling and forecasting capability Citizen science and citizen engagement initiatives

10 What the new programme deliver A greatly expanded national monitoring network with 68 automatic monitoring stations, supplemented by mobile trailers and local monitoring sites in three tiers Tier 1 A core network of CAFE directive monitoring stations upgraded to provide additional automatic real-time PM information Tier 2 A greatly expanded Air Quality Index for Health (AQIH) network. This will consist of the existing CAFE network, the existing automatic EMEP network and a further 38 sites Tier 3 Local air quality monitoring. To be progressed at an initial 15 sites

11 Current and Proposed Networks

12 The road to implementation Capital of 5M over five years and personnel commitment given by Government to EPA Engagement with local authority partners Re-alignment of EPA resources Tendering and procurement Project planning and management Internal and external stakeholder communications Growing media engagement

13 Ambient Air Monitoring Programme Governance Structure EPA as National Competent Authority and DCCAE to develop the National Ambient Air Monitoring Framework in consultation with the CCMA EPA lead role in air quality monitoring to continue Partnership of local authorities and other public bodies will be key to successful implementation Local Authorities using a regionalised approach to participate in national and local air quality monitoring

14 Preliminary work by EPA with assistance from Nitrogen dioxide indicative study commenced 2016 then consolidated into wider study in Q Purpose Identify potential hot spots where additional permanent real time monitoring would be merited 26 monitoring points in 6 areas of the city: Heuston Station (4) Bus Aras (4) Ringsend (4) North Wall (94) Pearse St. (4) Grand Canal (4) Rathmines (2) Particulate Monitoring replace most existing analysers with real time analysers

15 Heuston Environs Bus Aras Environs

16 North Wall Docklands Environs Pearse Street

17 Ringsend Environs

18 Grand Canal (Portobello Rathmines)

19 2017 NO2 Diffusion Tube Survey Location March April May June July August September Heuston Busaras North Wall Ringsend Pearse St Grand Canal Rathmines µg/m 3

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