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The orange training has raised a request to know who decides, when, how and why the warnings and recommendations are made to the population when the established limit values ​​in terms of air quality are exceeded

The spokesman for Citizens, Mario Gómez, has raised a plea to the Plenary asking the local government to develop a protocol for action before episodes of air pollution to know who decides, when, how and why notices are made, recommendations and restrictions to the population when the established limit values ​​in terms of air quality in our municipality are exceeded.

"We have been overcoming these values ​​for more than 10 days in Murcia, where we have gone through specific episodes, especially in summer, due to the intrusion of Saharan dust;

to a situation that can lead to a real public health problem, "the orange spokesman warned.

"We know that there are several causes, lack of water, anticyclonic situation this fall, road traffic, agricultural burning ..., what is surprising us", Gómez denounced, "is the inaction and improvisation of the PP with the recent episodes of contamination atmospheric that still endure. "

Thus, the spokesman of Cs has noted that "in 2016 we warned by a motion to the local government on the need to act on air quality, as for example, increasing the number of measurement stations and urging the City to have stations own;

a year later and, despite having approved the motion, the PP is still doing nothing. "

For this reason, Citizens have reminded José Ballesta and his team that "the Law on Air Quality for municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants establishes actions such as having facilities and evaluation networks, reporting on levels of pollution and quality of the air, to elaborate plans and programs for the objectives of air quality adopting, when it is necessary, measures of total or partial restriction of the traffic. "

"If the Consistory does not act, we will ask the General Directorate of Public Health to intervene, coordinate and implement the necessary actions, we can not keep our arms crossed," he concluded.

Source: Ciudadanos Murcia