ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA), Islamabad is in process of ambient air quality monitoringsurvey of sectors 1-9, I-10 and Kahuta triangle industrial areas.
The monitoring, started from February 1, 2018, is aimed at determining pollution sources and adopt measures toaddress them.
Sources at Climate Change Division on Wednesday said state-of- the-art mobile automatic ambient air quality monitoring station and high volume air samplers for Suspended Particle Matter (SPM) are being used during the survey.
The number of monitoring locations include ten locations in sector I-9, 13 locations in sector I-10 and seven locations in Kahuta triangle industrial area.
The sources said a comprehensive report will be drafted by analyzing data of this more than month long activity once completed. This agency also has a plan to conduct ambient air quality monitoring of all residential sectors of Islamabad.
The sources said a station will be placed at each location for 24 hours and following parameters will be monitored by mobile automatic ambient air quality monitoring station.
These are Nitric Oxide (NO), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx), Methane (CH4), Non Methane Hydrocarbons (NMHC), Total Hydrocarbons (THC), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Sulphur Dioxide (SO2), Ozone (03) and Particulate Matter less than 2.5 microns (PM2.5).
