Results of the year 2006 (in µg/m³) Informations about concentrations of the pollu- tants are published in • number of exceedances (limit value GW + tolerancevalue) / maximal value in µg/m³ PM10 SO2 SO2 NO2 CO O3 O3 1 hr 24 hrs 1 hr 24 hrs 8 hrs 8 hrs 1 hr • Teletext NDR plate 191 (summer) plates 191 - 192 (winter) number of al- lowed excee- 24 3 18 35 none 25 none • Vocal announcement phone 428 45 - 2424 dances • Internet www.hamburger-luft.de limit value (+tolerance 200 350 125 50 10000 120 180 value TM (+40) 2006) background- and ozone stations - / - / - / 15 / Bergedorf - - - 99 22 98 107 - / - / - / 21 / Billbrook - - - 103 36 160 132 published by: - / - / - / 26 / Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg Billstedt - - - 111 37 170 127 Behörde für Soziales, Familie, Gesundheit und - / - / - / 22 / 10 / Blankenese - - Verbraucherschutz 84 35 107 190 213 - / - / - / 22 / 7 / Bramfeld - - 64 19 99 190 200 Institut für Hygiene und Umwelt Finkenwerder - / Bereich Umweltuntersuchungen / Luft - - - - - - Airbus 129 Automatische Immissionsmessungen Finkenwerder - / 25 / - - - - - Marckmannstraße 129b West 152 124 20539 Hamburg Flughafen- - / - / - / 17 / - / 11 / 1 / E-Mail: [email protected] Nord 44 16 147 106 1299 169 186 - / - / - / 21 / 9 / Internet: http://www.hu.hamburg.de Neugraben - - 94 24 100 188 211 - / - / - / 31 / - / 9 / 3 / Report HU431-07-03 Sternschanze The ambient air pollution network 92 39 137 104 1274 171 197 Juni 2007 - / - / - / 19 / 14 / 2 / of Hamburg (HaLm) Tatenberg - 73 19 102 127 171 195 Results of the year 2006 1 / - / - / 24 / - / Veddel - - 378 102 208 136 2264 - / - / - / 18 / Wilhelmsburg - - - 171 38 204 131 traffic stations The Institute for Hygiene and Environment is part of the Hamburg Ministry for Welfare, Family, Health and Custo- 5 / 45 / - / Habichtstr. - - - - mer Protection. In the areas of food chemistry, human- and 260 118 2883 veterinary medicine and environmental analysis 360 peo- - / - / Kieler Straße - - - - - ple – scientists, medical and veterinary surgeons, veteri- 205 2942 narians, engineers, technicians and administrational staff Max-Brauer- - / - / - / 36 / - / - - – work daily for the observation of the environment in or- Allee 146 37 192 120 2620 der to prevent damage to the public, animals and nature, Stresemann- - / - / 2 / 35 / - / to protect customers against unsatisfactory products and to - - Hamburg straße 107 38 258 135 2316 ensure public health. Air pollution in Hamburg Results of the year 2006 (in µg/m³) Further measures will have to be considered in order to fulfil In the year 2006, high concentrations of aerosol parti- the requirements of the Air Quality Framework Directive and annual mean PM SO NO NO O CO Ben- PM soot cles smaller than 10 µm (PM10) and of ozone were mea- its Daughter Directives, especially in regard to staying below values 2 2 3 10 zene 2,5 sured in the City of Hamburg. Although the annual mean the limit values in 2010. Therefore the local Ministry for City JM JM JM JM JM JM JM JM of PM10 at all stations was lower than the annual mean Development and Environment prepared an action plan for limit 40 5 50* - - 40 - - limit value of 40 µg/m³, the daily mean value of 50 µg/m³ the City of Hamburg. value(+TM) (+8) (+4) was exceeded more than 35 times (number of allowed The annual limit value of 5 µg/m3 for benzene which also exceedances per year) at two traffic stations. At the traf- will be valid from 2010 can already be met, even at the traf- background- and ozone- stations fic station Habichtstraße, 45 exceedances and at Max- fic stations. Although there have been short periods of high Brauer-Allee, 36 exceedances were documented. Also at ozone and PM10 concentrations, the air quality of Hamburg Bergedorf 4 6 23 - 22 - - - - the other network stations there were more exceedances was in general good in 2006. Billbrook 6 12 32 - 23 - - - - documented in 2006 than in 2005. The extreme weather conditions at the beginning of the year were responsible The ambient air pollution network of Hamburg Billstedt 5 16 34 - 29 - - - - for a large number of higher particle concentrations. The high pressure systems favoured cold and stagnant wea- Blankenese 6 4 19 47 - - - - - ther conditions with inversions. This led to an accumulati- • has at the moment 18 measurement stations and one mobile truck for checking the air quality in Hamburg on of pollutants. At the same time the cold weather led to Bramfeld 3 5 19 45 - - - - - more emissions caused by domestic heating. The large (measurements for the 18th station - Billwerder - were only started in December 2006) Finkenwerder scale background concentration was therefore higher than - 9 23 - - - - - - during a warmer winter. In addition, local emissions from • differentiates between background-, ozone- and traffic- Airbus stations Finkenwerder traffic and/or dust intensive building activities influenced - 7 24 - 29 - - - - the measurements at several stations. In connection with • measures continuously according to EU- Directives and West national law (Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz) Flughafen- the PM10 pollution in the city of Hamburg an action plan 3 9 25 40 22 265 0,8 - - was already developed in 2004. Nord The background-stations monitor the general air quality in There were several ozone episodes during the sum- Neugraben 4 5 19 49 - - - - - mer months. On 4 days the ozone information value of a larger area. They measure sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitro- Stern- gen monoxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particulate 7 10 33 39 29 265 0,9 16 - 180 µg/m³ was exceeded, leading to an information of the schanze public. This number was surprisingly high since the ozo- matter (PM10: particle smaller than 10 micrometer). Some ne information value had not been exceeded since 2003. stations also measure carbon monoxide (CO). The ozone Tatenberg 4 4 20 44 21 - 0,7 16 - Intensive ozone formation is dependent on strong sun ra- stations measure ozone (O3) and also the NO2- und NO- diation, high temperatures and high precursor concentra- concentrations. At the traffic-stations pollutants are monito- Veddel 11 22 39 - 27 305 - 19 - red which are typical for traffic locations: benzene, NO, NO2, tions (e.g. NO, NO2 and hydrocarbons) in the air. Wilhelms- 8 10 31 - 23 - - - - Another pollutant which influences the air quality of CO and diesel soot. burg Last but not least the instruments in a mobile truck measure Hamburg very much is nitrogen dioxide (NO2). The an- nual limit value of 40 µg/m3 is due to come into force pollutants in locations which are placed in a 500 by 500 m traffic stations from 1.1.2010, but until then this limit value plus an an- grid in order to document the air quality in a smaller scale. Habicht- Alternatively, the equipment is used for screening measure- - 82 68 - 36 796 2,7 - - nually decreasing tolerance value (TM) (in 2006 it was straße 48 µg/m3) should not be exceeded. However, it was ex- ments. Kieler The table considers not only limit values of the EU but also - 69 62 - - 548 1,9 - 7 ceeded at all four traffic stations, the highest NO2 pollution Straße was measured at the Max-Brauer-Allee with 73 µg/m3. At the annual mean value for SO2 (from the TALuft). Max-Brauer- the Habichtstraße und Stresemannstraße even the limit 9 75 73 - 33 761 2,8 - 5 Allee value + TM (240 µg/m³ in 2006) for one hour was several * limit value of the TALuft ** annual mean values, which are based on less than 85% of the times exceeded. Strese- theoretical possible values 8 59 67 - 31 532 1,9** - 4** mannstr..