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- the air pollution warning service for Sussex.
airALERT 2008 (Open for Registration)
Air Pollution Alert Service for people in Sussex.
airAlert is operational from May 2008 for people to receive FREE ALERTS during elevated air pollution periods. We are to run the service for asthma sufferers, along with enlarging the service for children with asthma through schools with airAlert-4-schools in Sussex. For more information on airAlert from April 2008 goto: www.airalert.info
To register for airALERT 2008 , click here.
To find out more about airAlert-4-schools, click here.
EU Inter-regional Projects
Sussex- air have been involved in many EU supported Interreg projects over the last 10 years, spanning the Interreg II, III and now IV programs.
Interreg IV:
Sussex-air in partnership with Environmental Protection UK are forming a partnership across Sussex and Kent, to work on a project related to the impacts of particulates (PM) on health, transport corridors and influencing and informing change. For more information on InterregIV, please contact Susssex-air (nigel.jenkins@lewes.gov.uk) or Ed Dearnley (EPuk) (Ed.Dearnley@environmental-protection.org.uk).
Interreg IIIa:
The last project Sussex-air was involved in was a 2 year project titled "Air Rives Manche – Ozone" (ARMO). The project looked at (ground-level) ozone and it's impact on health and vegetation. Our partnership region was Sussex and across the channel (La Manche) to Picardy and Normandy.To find out more please read the ARMO final report here (Note large file 3.0Mb)
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airAlert-4-schools competition 2008(closed).
We want young people with asthma to understand that if warned, with information from services like airAlert, that they can still have enjoyable active lives.
The competition has closed and our celebrity judge (David Shepherd - Sussex Wildlife painter and conservationist www.davidshepherd.org) has reviewed all the entries and has been greatly impressed by the all the of the childrens colourful and thoughtful posters.
The winners and runners ups will be notified, through their schools in mid September. We will have £50.00 bike vouchers for each group winner and airAlert boomerangs as 10 runner-up prizes for each 3 different age/year groups.
We will be posting some of the entries online here soon and on www.airalert.info
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airAlert news: Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Air Pollution Monitoring Network are to join airAlert, starting in November 2008. (Herts and Beds AQ Network). The service will integrate the initial Luton airAlert service and will be jointly provided by Sussex-air and King's College London (ERG). Any authorities interested in running airAlert for their LA or regional grouping can contact Nigel Jenkins at Sussex-air for any further information (01273 484331 or nigel.jenkins@lewes.gov.uk). Sussex-air and the Met Office are to join forces to provide airAlert COPD alerts for patients during the winter. airAlert COPD will be launched this year to provide winter time warnings to patients in Sussex who have COPD. This pilot is to be co-ordinated and supported by a Sussex PCT. For more information please contact Nigel Jenkins at Sussex-air (01273 484331 or nigel.jenkins@lewes.gov.uk).
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Biomass and air quality issues - The London councils recent report into the impacts of biomass on air quality raised some interesting issues regarding biomasses possible impacts on air quality management areas. To find out more information about this report please refer to the London Councils website for the report: Review of the Potential Impact on Air Quality from Increased Wood Fuelled Biomass Use in London. |
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The 2008 Sussex-air seminar " Climate Change and Air Quality" focused on the inter-linkage of Climate Change and Air Quality issues facing Sussex and the South East. (Presentations here) |
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LACORS - A new toolkit to help councils improve local air quality and climate change has been launched by the Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services (LACORS).The LACORS Air Quality Toolkit (link) is aimed at councillors and environmental protection officers and provides practical examples of how councils can address the problem of poor air quality. (Jan 08) |
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Air Quality Management Area's in Sussex : 5 Local Authorities in Sussex have declared 6 AQMA's (Adur D.C.(2), Brighton and Hove C.C., Chichester D.C., Hastings B.C. and Lewes D.C. ) Most declarations are for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) except for Hastings where the AQMA was declare on exceedences of the particulate (PM10) objective. The AQMA declarations all relate to local transport pollution - for more info. on AQMA's click here |
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More About Us - Sussex Air Quality Partnership Members
The Sussex Air Quality Partnership (Sussex-air) is made up of representatives from Sussex City, Borough and District Councils in East and West Sussex, East and West Sussex County Councils, the Sussex Primary Care Trusts, the Health Protection Agency, the Environment Agency, with support from King's College Environment Research Group, and Sussex Universities.
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Emissions Inventory for Sussex | Air Quality Statistics and Reports | Air Quality Management Areas | |