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Tender forms and further particulars may be obtained from the office of Consulting Engineers Rust-Atkins Haswell, 11th floor, West Wing, Hennessy Centre, 500 Hennessy Road, Causeway Bay. The tender closing date is noon on November 3.
End/Friday, October 13, 1995
Air Quality Report for September
The Environmental Protection Department today (Friday) released air quality information for September.
The purpose of the announcement is to keep the public informed of the air quality levels in the territory and to explain the measurements.
The announcement contains monitoring results
contains monitoring results from Mong Kok, Central/Western and Kwai Chung, which represent three important land use types in the territory:
* locations close to road traffic in built-up urban areas;
* combined commercial and residential districts; and;
* districts close to industrial areas.
The reported air pollutants include sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), total suspended particulates (TSP) which comprise all sizes of dust particles, and the respirable fraction of the dust (RSP). All these pollutants can affect respiratory health in sufficient concentration.
In September, there were no exceedances of the 24-hour Air Quality Objective (AQO) values at any of the three sites. Mong Kok station recorded the highest concentration of air pollutants, with the 24-hour average NO2 approaching 90% of the corresponding AQO on September 22.
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