A brand new episode of Environmental Alert was declared by the Presidential Delegation of O’Higgins for this Saturday, Could 25, within the 17 communes that make up the Saturated Zone of the Atmospheric Decontamination Plan (PDA) of the central valley of O’Higgins. That is the fourth environmental alert thus far this yr inside the framework of Important Episode Administration that runs from Could 1 to August 31.
On this regard, the Presidential Delegate of the O’Higgins Area, Fabio López identified that “This Saturday we could have a brand new environmental alert, the fourth of this season and we have to be conscious that no matter whether or not we now have wet days, we should all contribute with consciousness and contributing from our citizen path. Lastly, word that we’re coping with respiratory ailments that have an effect on individuals’s well being and that is immediately associated.”
For her half, the Seremi del Medio Ambiente, Giovanna Amaya, defined that “that is the fourth Environmental Alert of the yr, induced, amongst different elements, by the rise in particulate matter emanating primarily from the usage of wooden heaters in properties, thought of as the primary supply of air air pollution within the central valley of our area. It’s essential for individuals to know that particulate matter not solely contaminates our air, but additionally complicates respiratory ailments in danger teams, additional saturating healthcare services.”
The measures to be carried out on days when an Environmental Alert is asserted are the next:
- It’s prohibited to mild wooden stoves, whether or not or not they’ve SEC certification. Solely SEC-certified pellet stoves are allowed to be lit.
- Academic institutions might perform average depth sports activities actions solely in closed areas.
- The SEREMI of Sports activities and/or the Nationwide Sports activities Institute point out that the measure in case of an alert would be the efficiency of bodily exercise of average depth, avoiding extended or very intense bodily efforts. The actions linked to the Nationwide System of Sports activities Competitions (SNCD) are carried out in any respect occasions.
- Prohibition of the operation of wooden or coal-fired boilers, until they display PM emissions of lower than 30 mg/m³N
The measures apply in the course of the environmental episode, that’s, for twenty-four hours within the 17 communes that make up the Saturated Zone for respirable particulate matter MP 10: Rancagua, Graneros, Doñihue, El Olivar, Coltauco, Coinco, Quinta de Tilcoco, San Vicente, Placilla, Mostazal, Codegua, Machalí, Malloa, Rengo, Requínoa, San Fernando and Chimbarongo.
To make complaints about the usage of wood-burning units on an environmental episode day, it’s essential to name or write by way of WhatsApp to the quantity +56989036974 of the Seremi de Salud O’Higgins.
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