2009 Air Quality Updating and Screening Assessment for South Gloucestershire Council
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South Gloucestershire Council - England Updating and Screening Assessment 2009 Air Quality Updating and Screening Assessment for South Gloucestershire Council In fulfillment of Part IV of the Environment Act 1995 Local Air Quality Management April 2010 South Gloucestershire Council - England Updating and Screening Assessment DOCUMENT CONTROL SHEET CLIENT CONTACT Sally Radwell South Gloucestershire Council Environmental Protection PO Box 2078, Council Offices, Castle Street, Thornbury South Gloucestershire BS35 9BJ Tel: 01454 863767 Email: [email protected] UWE CONTACT Jo Barnes Air Quality Management Resource Centre Faculty of Environment and Technology University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus Coldharbour Lane, Frenchay, Bristol, BS16 1QY Tel: 0117 3283825 Email: [email protected] DOCUMENT STATUS STATUS DATE DESCRIPTION Draft report 26/02/2010 Emailed to Sally Radwell for comment Draft report 09/04/2010 Posted CD of pdf and doc to Sally Radwell for comment Final report 16/04/2010 Emailed to Sally Radwell as pdf and doc ii Produced with the assistance of AQMRC, UWE, Bristol April 2010 South Gloucestershire Council - England Updating and Screening Assessment Executive Summary South Gloucestershire Council have undertaken this Updating and Screening Assessment in fulfilment of Part IV of the Environment Act 1995 which requires local authorities to review and assess air quality within their administrative area. This Updating and Screening Assessment (Round 4) updates all monitoring data since the last Updating and Screening Assessment (undertaken in 2006) and screens for various potential sources of pollution with the Local Authority’s administrative area in accordance with the Local Air Quality Management Technical Guidance 2009 (LAQM.TG(09)). South Gloucestershire Council are currently in the process of declaring three Air Quality Management Areas, which are due to be declared in April 2010. This Updating and Screening Assessment has concluded the following: • Assessment of Monitoring Data: Following the screening criteria in LAQM.TG(09), there are no exceedences of any of the pollutants of concern within South Gloucestershire. However there are three areas outside of the proposed AQMAs that are close to the annual mean nitrogen dioxide objective. • Assessment of Sources: Following the screening criteria in LAQM.TG(09), a Detailed Assessment will be required for NO2 for moving locomotives at Winterbourne, Patchway, Little Stoke and Stoke Gifford. There are no other sources (transport, other transport, industrial, commercial/domestic and fugitive) of concern within South Gloucestershire. South Gloucestershire Council will initiate a Detailed Assessment in respect of this newly identified source as soon as possible with a view to submitting the report to Defra by April 2011. South Gloucestershire Council should also continue current monitoring and report the results to Defra in a Review and Assessment Progress Report by the end of April 2010. April 2010 Produced with the assistance of AQMRC, UWE, Bristol iii South Gloucestershire Council - England Updating and Screening Assessment Table of contents Executive Summary iii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Description of Local Authority Area 1 1.2 Purpose of Report 2 1.3 Air Quality Objectives 3 1.4 Summary of Previous Review and Assessments 4 2 New Monitoring Data 6 2.1 Summary of Monitoring Undertaken 6 2.2 Comparison of Monitoring Results with AQ Objectives 15 3 Road Traffic Sources 28 3.1 Narrow Congested Streets with Residential Properties Close to the Kerb 28 3.2 Busy Streets Where People May Spend 1-hour or More Close to Traffic 28 3.3 Roads with a High Flow of Buses and/or HGVs. 29 3.4 Junctions 29 3.5 New Roads Constructed or Proposed Since the Last Round of Review and Assessment 31 3.6 Roads with Significantly Changed Traffic Flows 31 3.7 Bus and Coach Stations 31 4 Other Transport Sources 33 4.1 Airports 33 4.2 Railways (Diesel and Steam Trains) 33 4.3 Ports (Shipping) 36 5 Industrial Sources 37 5.1 Industrial Installations 37 5.2 Major Fuel (Petrol) Storage Depots 38 5.3 Petrol Stations 38 5.4 Poultry Farms 39 6 Commercial and Domestic Sources 40 6.1 Biomass Combustion – Individual Installations 40 6.2 Biomass Combustion – Combined Impacts 42 6.3 Domestic Solid-Fuel Burning 42 7 Fugitive or Uncontrolled Sources 43 8 Conclusions and Proposed Actions 44 8.1 Conclusions from New Monitoring Data 44 8.2 Conclusions from Assessment of Sources 44 8.3 Proposed Actions 45 Appendices 46 iv Produced with the assistance of AQMRC, UWE, Bristol April 2010 South Gloucestershire Council - England Updating and Screening Assessment Appendix A: Maps 47 Appendix B: QA/QC Data 58 Appendix C: Monitoring Data 66 Appendix D: DMRB Calculations 72 Appendix E: Part A1, A2 and B Permitted Installations 78 Appendix F: Biomass Boiler Plant Site Plans 87 April 2010 Produced with the assistance of AQMRC, UWE, Bristol v South Gloucestershire Council - England Updating and Screening Assessment Figures Figure 1: Map of location of South Gloucestershire 2 Figure 2: Map of South Gloucestershire showing locations of the proposed AQMAs 47 Figure 3: Proposed AQMA 1 - Cribbs Causeway adjacent to M5 Junction 17 Roundabout 47 Figure 4: Proposed AQMA 2 – Kingswood along A420 Regent Street 48 Figure 5: Proposed AQMA 3 - Staple Hill at Broad Street (A4175), High Street (B4465), Victoria Street & Soundwell Road (A4017) crossroads 48 Figure 6: Continuous monitoring site – Badminton 49 Figure 7: Continuous monitoring site – Filton 49 Figure 8: Continuous monitoring site – Kingswood 50 Figure 9: Continuous monitoring site and triple collocated NO2 diffusion tubes – Yate 50 Figure 10: Millipore monitoring site - Pilning 51 Figure 11: Millipore monitoring site - Yate 51 Figure 12: Millipore and NO2 diffusion tube sites - Cribbs Causeway 52 Figure 13: Benzene and NO2 diffusion tube sites – Filton 52 Figure 14: Benzene and NO2 diffusion tube site - Aztec West 53 Figure 15: NO2 diffusion tube site - Bradley Stoke adjacent to M4 53 Figure 16: Bristol Parkway Freight Lines with 15 m buffer and relevant exposure 54 Figure 17: Charfield Freight Loops with 15 m buffer and relevant exposure 54 Figure 18: Chipping Sodbury Freight Loops with 15 m buffer and relevant exposure 55 Figure 19: Bitton Station Steam Railway Lines with 15 m buffer and relevant exposure 55 Figure 20: Stoke Gifford 30 m buffer and relevant exposure 56 Figure 21: Patchway & Little Stoke 30 m buffer and relevant exposure 56 Figure 22: Winterbourne 30 m buffer and relevant exposure 57 Figure 23: National bias adjustment factor spreadsheet for Bristol Scientific Services 2008 58 Figure 24: Precision and Accuracy spreadsheet for Collocation Study at Yate 58 Figure 25: Field Comparison Summary Report 2008 64 Figure 26: DMRB input data - A38 Gloucester Road North (south of Charborough Road) 72 Figure 27: DMRB output data - A38 Gloucester Road North 72 Figure 28: DMRB input data - A403 Severn Road 73 Figure 29: DMRB output data - A403 Severn Road 73 Figure 30: DMRB input data - A4017 Soundwell Road 74 Figure 31: DMRB output data - A4017 Soundwell Road 74 Figure 32: DMRB input - Filton Avenue north 75 Figure 33: DMRB output - Filton Avenue north 75 Figure 34: DMRB input - Filton Avenue south 76 Figure 35: DMRB output - Filton Avenue south 76 Figure 36: DMRB input - Station Road/ Filton Avenue 77 Figure 37: DMRB output - Station Road/ Filton Avenue 77 Figure 38: Filton Hill Primary School Biomass Boiler site plan 87 Figure 39: Stoke Lodge Primary School Biomass Boiler site plan 87 vi Produced with the assistance of AQMRC, UWE, Bristol April 2010 South Gloucestershire Council - England Updating and Screening Assessment Tables Table 1: Air Quality Objectives included in Regulations for the purpose of Local Air Quality Management in England 3 Table 2: Summary of Review and Assessment Process for South Gloucestershire 4 Table 3: Details of Automatic Monitoring Sites 7 Table 4: Details of Non- Automatic Monitoring Sites 8 Table 5: Results of Automatic Monitoring for Nitrogen Dioxide: Comparison with Annual Mean and Hourly Mean Objectives 15 Table 6: Results of Nitrogen Dioxide Diffusion Tubes 2008 16 Table 7: Results of Nitrogen Dioxide Diffusion Tubes 2008 – Summary of exceedences 19 Table 8: Results of Nitrogen Dioxide Diffusion Tubes 2006-2008 21 Table 9: Results of PM10 Automatic Monitoring: Comparison with annual mean and 24-hour mean objectives 24 Table 10: Results of the BTX Diffusion Tubes for Benzene for 2008 25 Table 11: Results of Ozone Automatic Monitoring: Comparison with 8-hour mean objective 26 Table 12: Millipore Results for Lead 26 Table 13: Millipore Results for Cadmium 27 Table 14: Millipore Results for Zinc 27 Table 15: Millipore Results for Copper 27 Table 16: Details of biomass boilers in South Gloucestershire 40 Table 17: Calculation of maximum emission rates 40 Table 18: Comparison of background adjusted emission rates and threshold emission rates41 Table 19: Adjustment of nitrogen dioxide to the facade of nearest relevant receptors 60 Table 20: WASP Nitrogen Dioxide Results Round 97 onwards 63 Table 21: Monthly nitrogen dioxide diffusion tube results 2008 66 Table 22: Millipore results for 2008 (μg/m3) 71 April 2010 Produced with the assistance of AQMRC, UWE, Bristol vii South Gloucestershire Council - England Updating and Screening Assessment 1 Introduction 1.1 Description of Local Authority Area South Gloucestershire lies to the north and east of the city of Bristol with the River Severn forming the western boundary.