The Socialists support the repeated complaints of groups such as Ecologists in Action presented to the city of Lorca and the Ministry of Agriculture and Water by losepisodios ozone pollution occurred during the month of May in the town of Lorca
They criticize the government team's Party chooses instead to address this problem, by eliminating green spaces such as those executed in the environment Crta. De Granada or Sta. Quiteria, which leave Lorca with a rate of spaces green below the recommended by WHO
Diego José Mateos, elected councilor of the Municipal Group PSOE Socialist candidate for mayor of Lorca has warned of the worrying ozone pollution episodes occurred during the last month and placed back to our town to head in tropospheric pollution Murcia, according to official sources say the very Ministry of Agriculture and Water.
The PSOE say environmental groups insist that "the situation of Lorca esbastante serious if one takes into account the limits set by the World Health Organization, which reflect the actual condition of the pollutant on public health".
In this sense, since the PSOE wanted to echo the warning issued from Ecologists in Action, who warned that "Lorca exceeded in May hasta8 times the daily limit legally established for ozonoen Spanish law. This legal value is 120 micrograms per cubic meter (as maximum daily eight-hour mean) limit which, moreover, should not be exceeded more than 25 times per calendar year. "
"However, using the WHO criteria, every day of the month of May have occurred exceedances of the limit values ​​ozonopara health protection in the town of Lorca."
"In addition, groups responsible for this area predict queen the next summer, ozone pollution in the town of Lorca will worsen due to the usual dynamics of this pollutant," says Mateos.
Therefore, demanding that the city of Lorca "greater awareness against this alarming problem that places Lorca at the head of the Spanish municipalities with the highest rates of air pollution. In this regard, urges a change of direction to the policies pursued by the current government which does not fit more deletions of green spaces such as those implemented in environments of Granada Highway and Santa Quiteria in recent months and, indeed, leave Lorca with a rate of green space less than the minimum recommended by the World Health Organization. "
"From the PSOE propose coordinated development of local and regional government proceedings and jointly with groups and bodies such as Agenda 21, so that specific measures to act on pollutants ozone precursors are in place and so redound on the welfare of all citizens of Lorca, "concluded Mateos.
Eight hours daily maximum values ​​at stations measuring air quality in the region of Murcia.
MAY 2015
Source: PSOE Lorca