2012 Air Quality Updating and Screening Assessment for Harrogate Borough Council
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2012 Air Quality Updating and Screening Assessment for Harrogate Borough Council In fulfillment of Part IV of the Environment Act 1995 Local Air Quality Management April 2012 Harrogate Borough Council Local Authority Emily Revill Officer Department Community Services Springfield House, Kings Road, Address Harrogate, HG1 5NX Telephone 01423 556865 e-mail [email protected] Report Reference USA2012 number Date April 2012 LAQM USA 2012 1 Harrogate Borough Council Executive Summary The Environment Act 1995, Part IV established a national framework for air quality management requiring all Local Authorities to conduct air quality reviews of their areas in accordance with relevant government guidance. This report forms part of this review, being the 2012 Updating and Screening Assessment of air quality for the district. The report considers each pollutant listed in the air quality regulations; these are carbon monoxide, benzene, 1,3-butadiene, lead, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, and PM10. The report follows on from the 2011 Progress Report and considers the changes in the local area since the previous Updating and Screening Assessment carried out in 2009. If, based on this information, it is considered that if any of the objectives are not likely to be achieved then a Detailed Assessment must be carried out. The report considers the results from monitoring carried out in 2011 and identifies York Place, Knaresborough as an area where further monitoring needs to be carried out to identify whether an exceedence is occurring at residential properties and identifies that the air quality objective has been exceeded at the Woodlands Junction, Wetherby Road. The report shows that there is continued exceedence of the Air Quality Objective at Bond End, Knaresborough and Low and High Skellgate, Ripon, and that the extent of the current Air Quality Management areas is correct. LAQM USA 2012 2 Harrogate Borough 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 ............................................................ 10 1.4.1 2006 Updating and Screening Assessment Report ..................................................... 14 1.4.2 2007 Annual Progress Report ...................................................................................... 14 1.4.3 2008 Interim Annual Progress Report .......................................................................... 14 1.4.4 2009 Detailed Assessment Report .............................................................................. 15 2 New Monitoring Data ..................................................................................... 20 2.1 Summary of Monitoring Undertaken ................................................................................ 20 2.1.1 Automatic Monitoring Sites .............................................................................................. 20 2.1.2 Non-Automatic Monitoring Sites ...................................................................................... 20 2.1.3 Details of Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC).................................................... 23 2.2 Comparison of Monitoring Results with AQ Objectives ................................................... 24 2.2.1 Nitrogen Dioxide .............................................................................................................. 24 2.2.1.3 Wetherby Road/Hookstone Drive Junction Harrogate Survey ..................................... 27 2.2.1.4 General District Survey ................................................................................................ 28 2.2.2 PM10 ................................................................................................................................. 32 2.2.3 Sulphur Dioxide................................................................................................................ 32 2.2.4 Benzene ........................................................................................................................... 32 2.2.5 Summary of Compliance with AQS Objectives ............................................................... 32 3 Road Traffic Sources ..................................................................................... 33 3.1 Narrow Congested Streets with Residential Properties Close to the Kerb ..................... 33 3.2 Busy Streets Where People May Spend 1 hour or More Close to Traffic ....................... 33 3.3 Roads with a High Flow of Buses and/or HGVs. ............................................................. 34 3.4 Junctions .......................................................................................................................... 34 3.5 New Roads Constructed or Proposed Since the Last Round of Review and Assessment . ......................................................................................................................................... 35 3.6 Roads with Significantly Changed Traffic Flows .............................................................. 35 3.7 Bus and Coach Stations .................................................................................................. 35 4 Other Transport Sources ............................................................................... 37 4.1 Airports ............................................................................................................................. 37 4.2 Railways (Diesel and Steam Trains) ............................................................................... 37 4.2.1 Stationary Trains .............................................................................................................. 37 4.2.2 Moving Trains .................................................................................................................. 38 4.3 Ports (Shipping) ............................................................................................................... 38 LAQM USA 2012 3 Harrogate Borough Council 5 Industrial Sources .......................................................................................... 39 5.1 Industrial Installations ...................................................................................................... 39 5.1.1 New or Proposed Installations for which an Air Quality Assessment has been Carried Out………………………. ................................................................................................................. 39 5.1.2 Existing Installations where Emissions have Increased Substantially or New Relevant Exposure has been Introduced ....................................................................................................... 39 5.1.3 New or Significantly Changed Installations with No Previous Air Quality Assessment ... 40 5.2 Major Fuel (Petrol) Storage Depots ................................................................................. 40 5.3 Petrol Stations.................................................................................................................. 40 5.4 Poultry Farms................................................................................................................... 40 6 Commercial and Domestic Sources ............................................................. 42 6.1 Biomass Combustion – Individual Installations ............................................................... 42 6.2 Biomass Combustion – Combined Impacts ..................................................................... 42 6.3 Domestic Solid-Fuel Burning ........................................................................................... 42 7 Fugitive or Uncontrolled Sources ................................................................. 44 8 Conclusions and Proposed Actions ............................................................. 45 8.1 Conclusions from New Monitoring Data .......................................................................... 45 8.2 Conclusions from Assessment of Sources ...................................................................... 45 8.3 Proposed Actions ............................................................................................................. 45 9 References ...................................................................................................... 47 List of Tables Table 1. Air Quality Objectives included in Regulations for the purpose of LAQM in England Table 2. Summary of Previous Review and Assessments Table 3. Details of Non-Automatic Monitoring Sites Table 4. Results of Nitrogen Dioxide Diffusion Tubes - Ripon Central Survey Table 5. Results of Nitrogen Dioxide Diffusion Tubes - Knaresborough Central Survey Table 6. Results of Nitrogen Dioxide Diffusion Tubes – Wetherby Road/Hookstone Chase Junction Harrogate Survey Table 7. Results of Nitrogen Dioxide Diffusion Tubes – General District Survey Table 8. Maximum number of daily bus movements at the busiest three bus stations in the Harrogate District (2009 figures) List of Figures Figure