The Environmental Guard makes checks in Constanta, after the inhabitants claimed a smell of petroleum products in several areas of the city
Illustrative photography – Constanța Port is seen from an ATL2 aircraft (Atlantique 2), above the Black Sea, during a SEA Shield military exercise. Romania, March 30, 2023. Photo source: Daniel Mihailescu / AFP / Profimedia
The Constanta Environmental Guard carried out several checks after the inhabitants of the municipality claimed a smell of petroleum products, in several areas of the city. Following the analyzes, the fixed monitoring stations did not register exceeds and the presence of gases in the atmosphere. The Environmental Guard announces that the measurements and checks in the field will continue in the next period, until the source of the claimed smell.
“For a few days now, more precisely, from May 1, the inhabitants of Constanta municipality have claimed a smell of petroleum products, in more areas of the city. From the first notifications, both on May 1 and on May 2, the permanent team of the Constanta County Commissioner of the National Environment The areas in which this smell was felt and claimed, ”announces the environmental guard in a Facebook post, writes news.ro.
According to the institution, on both days, the measurements made by the ISU Dobrogea and Engie laboratory, as well as the fixed monitoring stations of APM Constanţa have not registered the presence of gases or COV emissions (volatile organic compounds) that exceed the normal values.
“For a short time, the smell disappeared, so that on May 3, around 10:00, it will be felt again. The checks of the Commissarians of the Constanta Environmental Guard together with the representatives of Raja Sa and ISU Dobrogea continued on the routes of collection/evacuation of the waste water of the water operator and the water operator and the water. Household and pluvial, without identifying petroleum products in these networks ”, the Constanta Environmental Guard shows.
In the conditions in which the fixed monitoring stations of the APM for determining the air quality did not register exceeds at the monitored indicators, and the monitoring with the ISU Dobrogea laboratory did not indicate the presence of gases in the atmosphere, the Constanta Environmental Guard including the help of the colleagues from the Agency for the Protection of the Constanta Environment. of the city.
“As a result of the measurements made, they did not cause exceedances of the limits admitted to the main parameters of air quality (NO, NO2, NOX, NH3, Total Nitrogen, CO, SO2, H2S, Benzene, Toluene and Cov),” the Environmental Guard announces that the measurements and checks in the field will continue in the next period, until the next period, until the next period.
