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monitoring campaigns and emission inventories the western cape cooperative governance experience

. Where do you start. Establish contacts in the municipalities

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monitoring campaigns and emission inventories the western cape cooperative governance experience

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    1. Monitoring Campaigns and Emission Inventories – The Western Cape Cooperative Governance Experience By Hans Linde Air Quality Management Western Cape

    3. Where do you start Establish contacts in the municipalities – Air Quality Officers Is an inventory of sources of pollution available? What is the quality of the air? What capacity exist in the province? What monitoring is done?

    4. Create an interest in air quality management Refresher training courses of municipal staff Combustion principles, Control equipment Pollutants Monitoring Legislation NEMAQA, APPA roles and responsibilities of spheres of authorities

    5. Two projects identified Establishment of an emission inventory Passive sampling project across the Province

    7. Establish an emission inventory Province developed an Access Database for fuel burning appliances Training of municipal staff Information forms distributed to industries Municipalities collected the forms from the industries Province captured the data Obtained DEAT data for scheduled processes

    10. Fuel Usage Per District

    11. Emissions Per District

    12. Data verification process Quality assurance of information is important Verification process by visiting each premises – with Municipal staff Database updated

    13. Verification to date

    14. Passive sampling program Pollutants Monitored Sulphur Dioxide SO2 Nitrogen Dioxide NO2 Ozone O3 Volatile Organic Compounds VOC’s Benzene Toluene Xylene

    15. Setting up of program Costing of program Setting up database recording system Liaise with Municipalities and train Municipal staff Identifying sampling locations Municipal staff put out and collect monitors

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    22. The Permissible Amount or Concentration of Each Substance, Within the Time Period Specified, Is As Set Out in Columns 2 to 6 of the Table Below

    26. All Pollutants

    27. Benzene Winelands

    28. NO2 West Coast

    29. Conclusion on passive sampling program Comprehensive report compiled Each District info feature’s as a Chapter Be careful not to read too much in the results Did not measure PM10

    30. Way forward Province has purchased 3 moveable continuous state of the art monitoring stations Will be located on rotation basis, must stand for at least 1 year Commenced with a 1 year VOC monitoring program 30 locations across the Province

    31. Budgeting

    32. Other initiatives Complaints investigation EIA commenting Provincial quarterly report on air quality statistics AQO forum meetings AQO forum task teams APPA review project Fishing industries APPA review Project Ferro

    33. Air Quality Management Plans City of Cape Town – completed – work in progress Eden District - work in progress Cape Winelands drawing up terms of reference Province – AQMP guidelines

    34. Conclusions Stimulated the interest of municipal staff in air quality management Monitoring program must continue to provide information for future for planning and management Inventory, good start - must be expanded Air quality management system to be developed Roles and responsibilities between B and C municipalities remains problematic in some areas

    35. APPA review recommendation Concerted effort to be made by DEAT, in conjunction with the Provincial and Local Authorities, to attend to the schedule industries operating illegally without permits

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