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Air quality. Response  
 
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Decreasing the environment pollution of industrial productions and power units in the capital of Ukraine is foremost important problem. This problem can be solved, unlike the problem of motor car transport that will has imperfect engines for nearest 10-15 years. The solution has three real ways.

1) gradual and purposeful transition of all enterprises and productions to new types ecologically safe and natural protective technologies;

2) building of treatment facilities of new generations and providing of their effective operating;

3) territorial redistribution of production potential, of intensive economic activity, including stopping their functioning or removing of ecologically dangerous enterprises and power units out of the town and region.

The favourable preconditions for solving these tasks are created by reason of supposed arrangements as for technical reconstruction and modernization of industrial Kyiv potential as well as organization of joint enterprises by the assistance of foreign investments and scientific and technical cooperation with foreign firms and companies. It is very important that the ecological demands and criterions are kept by foreign and domestic employers. So, there is a possibility to form in the capital of our state a qualitatively new technical and technological base that will help to solve successfully the ecological problems.

Regarding for motor-car park increasing the first task of motor-car transport workers is implement of technical methods operating that can provide decrease of waste gases emissions and their toxicity, and decrease of acoustic pressure upon the environment. While using of busses and loaded cars, dangerous emissions scopes depend on any amount of factors. They are the following: technical state and correcting regulation of engines, engines good condition of their work and traffic, and also professional trade driver culture. Every driver ought to know and to remember that he not only executes his work, and damages the environment and society and he must to decrease this damage.

Transition of motor transport, especially busses and taxi-cars, to liquefied gas, systematic checks of the technical auto park state, optimum adjustment and search of rational engines work regime while operating of transport means, responsible attitude to business of drivers help to decrease pollution. It is necessary to take into account roads disposition while planning municipal bus routes. As supervisions testify, while bus moving up with inclination of 6-7 degrees, carbon oxide emission increases about 3 times more against ones with moving on horizontal road allotment. At the same time it is necessary to mark that highest concentration of incomplete fuel combustion productions that is carbon oxide and hydrocarbons reaches its highest indices while idling and small loading. Drivers ought always to remember about this and to decrease it to minimum. It is necessary to worry about good functioning of control- regulative points and ATP. (Auto-transport enterprise).

While determining perspectives of municipal transport development it is ought to return superiority to electrified metro, tram and trolley -bus. In Kyiv it is ought to consider and to solve tasks of creation of inner regional circular trams whether trolley -bus routes, considering actuality of power and ecological crisis. In regions with old building that have historic and architectural value, but with narrow streets especially in central part of the town, it is necessary to work on limitation of bus and motor car traffic. This is necessary for air basin improvement in the center, for preservation of unique buildings, first of all of Sophia Cathedral. The air basin dusting increase to minimum is need to consider as important ecological task and considerable sanitary factor. If air we breathe contains much a dust, it forms the harmful slag in human organism while getting blood, as researches of medical science testify. The harmful slag disturb normal work of cardiac-vascular, nervous and other systems of human organism, they negatively influence on function of such vitally important organs as liver and kidney. A necessity of radical arrangements implement upon increasing of atmosphere dusting in Kyiv is conditioned by consequences of CHAES (Chornobyl Atomic Station) disaster. Everywhere, specially on open locality allotments there is much radio-active particles that together with dust are able get into human organism through air and food. So called "hot particles" and radio nuclides get into human organism by the same way that lead to internal gamma- and beta- irradiation of human organism. Depending on chemical properties of aforesaid matters they stay too long in human organs.

Considering building industry from ecology point of view, it is necessary to say that today building "gives" not only any amount of dust, and smoke, soot. At building grounds in winter and in summer in the day -time and at night there is a big or a small fire. It is fuel and materials that are used in vain and damage the environment. As a rule, all that can be on fire and at the same time and part of building materials are burned. Often all building rubbish is throw out down through windows cuts and doors from all the floors. This works organization causes atmospheric air pollution, they increase the expenses on cleaning in one place and on cure of peoples in other.

It is necessary to liquidate the building consequences that can be named by "ecological delayed- action bombs". They appearance when organization of territories that are built on, and allotments adjoining them does not accomplish in full scope. Its pits, dints, trenches are unfilled up, there are unplanned earthen heaps, trees are broken, wastes of building materials are not tidy and allotments of open locality are not planted. All that creates big inconveniences for inhabitants, and the main of them is environment pollution.

For warning of these phenomena it is necessary: 1) Municipal Rada Commissions on taking over of building bodies ought to sign act only when the grounds are in the proper state. 2) State supervisory organizations (sanitary and epidemiology, nature protection services) must to take an effective and strict control over building organizations for keeping by them of sanitary-hygienic and nature protective norms and legislative acts. 3) Municipal authority ought to make use of economic sanctions that are pays and penalties for environment pollution, annihilations of green plantations as well as payments as compensation of ecological damages.

So, it can be generalized that for improvement of air basin state in Kyiv it is necessary to take following measures:

1. To development small wastes and wasteless technologies.

2. To implement a transition to more qualitative fuel in industry and use of more qualitative fuel on transport.

3. To stop expansion of operating and to not create ecologically "aggressive" new productions all over the municipal territory.

4. To increase effectiveness of operating dust and gas treatment facilities.

5. To improve structure of municipal production forces at the expense of ecophile and ecological compatible productions.

6. To create and to implement highly effective engines of internal combustion with small toxic waste gases emissions.

7. To create a reliable scheme of transport circles busy traffic motorways.

8. To create subdivisions of ecological militia for improvement of control over pollutants emissions into atmospheres by motor transport means at the entrances-departures and all over the town.

 

 

 


 

 

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