2012 Air Quality Updating and Screening Assessment for East Riding of Yorkshire Council
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2012 Air Quality Updating and Screening Assessment for East Riding of Yorkshire Council In fulfillment of Part IV of the Environment Act 1995 Local Air Quality Management December 2012 East Riding of Yorkshire Council Local Authority Phil Hill Officer Snr Environmental Control Officer Department Housing & Public Protection Council Offices, Church Street, Goole, Address East Riding of Yorkshire, DN14 5BG Telephone 01482 396204 e-mail [email protected] Report Reference LAQM USA2012/287908 number Date December 2012 LAQM USA 2012 1 East Riding of Yorkshire Council Executive Summary This Updating and Screening Assessment (USA) for 2012 is Phase 1 of the 5th round of the Air Quality Review and Assessment process. The USA has been produced in accordance with guidance issued by Defra for reporting progress under the system of Local Air Quality Management. The role of the report is to chart the progress made by the Council in improving air quality since the publication of the 2009 USA and subsequent Annual Progress Reports. The USA identifies all new pollutant sources, existing sources that have undergone relevant change, and any new or changed receptor locations relevant to those sources. Two diffusion tube monitoring locations are identified by the report where the annual mean NO2 objective was exceeded in 2011. For all other monitoring locations, the report concludes there is no risk of any air quality objective being breached at any location of relevant exposure within the East Riding of Yorkshire. In line with national policy, the Council will next produce an Annual Progress Report in 2013, which will include further assessment, supported by additional monitoring, of the two identified exceedences in order to determine whether there is a need to proceed to a Detailed Assessment. Any comments or queries regarding this document should be addressed to: Philip Hill David Howliston Senior Environmental Control Officer Environmental Control Manager East Riding of Yorkshire Council East Riding of Yorkshire Council Public Protection Division Public Protection Division Council Offices Town Hall Church Street Quay Road Goole Bridlington East Riding of Yorkshire East Riding of Yorkshire DN14 5BG YO16 4LP Tel: 01482 396204 Tel: 01482 396211 Fax: 01482 396104 Fax: 01482 396103 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] LAQM USA 2012 2 East Riding of Yorkshire Council Table of contents 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................... 6 1.1 Description of Local Authority Area ................................................................................... 6 1.2 Purpose of Report .............................................................................................................. 6 1.3 Air Quality Objectives ........................................................................................................ 7 1.4 Summary of Previous Review and Assessments .............................................................. 8 2 New Monitoring Data ..................................................................................... 10 2.1 Summary of Monitoring Undertaken ................................................................................ 10 2.1.1 Automatic Monitoring Sites ............................................................................. 10 2.1.2 Non-Automatic Monitoring Sites ..................................................................... 11 2.2 Comparison of Monitoring Results with AQ Objectives ................................................... 13 2.2.1 Nitrogen Dioxide ............................................................................................. 13 2.2.2 PM10 ................................................................................................................ 20 2.2.3 Summary of Compliance with AQS Objectives ............................................... 22 3 Road Traffic Sources ..................................................................................... 23 3.1 Narrow Congested Streets with Residential Properties Close to the Kerb ..................... 23 3.2 Busy Streets Where People May Spend 1-hour or More Close to Traffic ....................... 23 3.3 Roads with a High Flow of Buses and/or HGVs. ............................................................. 23 3.4 Junctions .......................................................................................................................... 23 3.5 New Roads Constructed or Proposed Since the Last Round of Review and Assessment ..................................................................................................................... 24 3.6 Roads with Significantly Changed Traffic Flows .............................................................. 24 3.7 Bus and Coach Stations .................................................................................................. 24 4 Other Transport Sources ............................................................................... 25 4.1 Airports ............................................................................................................................. 25 4.2 Railways (Diesel and Steam Trains) ............................................................................... 25 4.2.1 Stationary Trains ............................................................................................. 25 4.2.2 Moving Trains .................................................................................................. 25 4.3 Ports (Shipping) ............................................................................................................... 25 5 Industrial Sources .......................................................................................... 26 5.1 Industrial Installations ...................................................................................................... 26 5.1.1 New or Proposed Installations for which an Air Quality Assessment has been Carried Out .................................................................................................... 26 5.1.2 Existing Installations where Emissions have Increased Substantially or New Relevant Exposure has been Introduced ........................................................ 27 5.1.3 New or Significantly Changed Installations with No Previous Air Quality Assessment ..................................................................................................... 27 5.2 Major Fuel (Petrol) Storage Depots ................................................................................. 27 5.3 Petrol Stations.................................................................................................................. 27 LAQM USA 2012 3 East Riding of Yorkshire Council 5.4 Poultry Farms ................................................................................................................... 28 6 Commercial and Domestic Sources ............................................................. 30 6.1 Biomass Combustion – Individual Installations ............................................................... 30 6.2 Biomass Combustion – Combined Impacts ..................................................................... 30 6.3 Domestic Solid-Fuel Burning ........................................................................................... 31 7 Fugitive or Uncontrolled Sources ................................................................. 32 8 Conclusions and Proposed Actions ............................................................. 33 8.1 Conclusions from New Monitoring Data .......................................................................... 33 8.2 Conclusions from Assessment of Sources ...................................................................... 34 8.3 Proposed Actions ............................................................................................................. 34 9 References ...................................................................................................... 36 List of Tables Table 1.1 Air Quality Objectives Included in Regulations for the Purpose of Local Air Quality Management in England Table 1.2 Previous Review & Assessment Reports Table 2.1 Details of Automatic Monitoring Stations Table 2.2 Details of Non- Automatic Monitoring Sites Table 2.3a Results of Automatic Monitoring for Nitrogen Dioxide: Comparison with Annual Mean Objective Table 2.3b Results of Automatic Monitoring for Nitrogen Dioxide: Comparison with 1-hour Mean Objective Table 2.4a Results of Nitrogen Dioxide Diffusion Tubes Table 2.4b Results of Nitrogen Dioxide Diffusion Tubes – Comparison with Previous Years Table 2.5a Results of PM10 Automatic Monitoring: Comparison with Annual Mean Objective Table 2.5b Results of PM10 Automatic Monitoring: Comparison with 24-hour Mean Objective Table 5.1 New or Proposed Industrial Installations Table 5.2 New or Substantially Changed Poultry Farms Table 6.1 Individual Biomass-Burning Installations List of Figures Figure 2.1 Automatic monitoring stations, Beverley Figure 2.2 Automatic monitoring station, Preston Figure 2.3 Summary of 2011 precision results and bias adjustment factors for nitrogen dioxide diffusion tubes – South Yorkshire Air Quality Samplers Figure 2.4 Trends in Annual Mean Nitrogen Dioxide Concentration Measured at Beverley Kerbside Automatic Monitoring Site Between 2001 and 2011. Figure 2.5 Trends in Annual Mean Nitrogen Dioxide