The poor air high quality continues to relentlessly have an effect on the Central Valley of the O’Higgins area, prompting the Presidential Delegation to declare a brand new environmental pre-emergency, which is able to take impact on Monday, July 15.
The Seremi of the Setting, Giovanna Amaya, defined that residential wooden burning is the principle supply of air air pollution, inflicting particulate matter. “Because the new PM 2.5 Atmospheric Decontamination Plan got here into impact, it’s much more restrictive concerning using wooden heaters, establishing that wooden stoves can’t be used whether or not or not they’re SEC licensed,” she stated.
It needs to be famous that that is the seventh environmental pre-emergency of the yr throughout the framework of Important Episode Administration (GEC) 2024, and it applies to the 17 communes that make up the Saturated Zone of the Atmospheric Decontamination Plan (PDA) for PM 2.5 within 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.
Beneath this declaration, the operation of heating boilers for home use, wooden heaters (licensed and non-certified by the SEC) and wooden stoves, and bodily schooling courses are suspended and light-intensity bodily exercise is beneficial in closed areas and the operation of boilers that use stable fuels is prohibited, except they show PM emissions of lower than 30 mg/m³N. Inspection by the SEREMI of Well being.
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