For the third consecutive day, Environmental Alert is maintained for this Thursday – 2024-05-30 10:05:18

For the third consecutive day, a brand new Environmental Alert was declared for this Thursday, Might 30, within the Central Valley of O’Higgins, utilized within the 17 communes that make up the Saturated Zone of the Atmospheric Decontamination Plan (PDA) by MP 2, 5 of the central valley of O’Higgins: Rancagua, Graneros, Doñihue, El Olivar, Coltauco, Coinco, Quinta de Tilcoco, San Vicente, Placilla, Mostazal, Codegua, Machalí, Malloa, Rengo, Requínoa, San Fernando and Chimbarongo.

“It’s the third consecutive day of environmental alert and we should tackle our air high quality in a critical and accountable method. It’s placing that there are conditions by which there are individuals who don’t contribute to advancing the preventive measures applied by the competent authority, which is why we make a robust name for everybody to please be a part of this resolution that’s urgently wanted at the moment. “, indicated the Regional Presidential delegate, Fabio López.”

For her half, the Seremi of the Setting, Giovanna Amaya, defined that “we face a fancy state of affairs, since we have now three consecutive environmental alerts which can be defined, amongst different components, by the poor air flow within the central valley and the lower in temperatures. which entails using wooden heaters for lengthy durations of time. The decision is to those that can warmth their houses with much less polluting means, they will accomplish that, since with this choice we not solely enhance air high quality, we additionally handle the well being of danger teams equivalent to youngsters and older adults.”

The measures to be applied on days when an Environmental Alert is said are the next:

• It’s prohibited to gentle wooden stoves, whether or not or not they’ve SEC certification. Solely SEC-certified pellet stoves are allowed to be lit.
• Instructional institutions might perform reasonable 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 alert would be the efficiency of bodily exercise of reasonable 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, except they show PM emissions of lower than 30 mg/m³N

The Seremi de Salud O’Higgins has enabled a criticism telephone quantity so that individuals can inform the authority in case of non-compliance with the laws associated to the lighting of wooden heaters on days of environmental episode, in these instances, they have to name or write by way of WhatsApp to the quantity +56989036974.