I agree with this as well and a friend has also been talking to Graham Turnbull.
Jon
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From : cellicock@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date : 20/03/2019 - 10:12 (GMT)
To : eccotalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, eccotalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject : [eccotalk] Air pollution on Brocco Bank
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Hi All,
I have become concerned
about the levels of air pollution on Brocco Bank. My son has developed asthma
since starting school and walking up and down Brocco Bank twice a day during
periods of heavy traffic. This may of course be unrelated but the pollution is
certainly there. A man
called Graham Turnbull (who set up Clean Air Sheffield) has developed a device
and is measuring pollution levels around Sheffield. I would be interested in
knowing the levels of pollution on Brocco Bank and in our neighbourhood.
The Clean Air Sheffield
Facebook Page states "Sheffield air quality
is about as bad as you would expect for a UK city of
its size in 2017. This even though we have 4 million trees and live on the
doorstep of a National Park. I'm interested in reducing the pollution in
Sheffield especially vehicular emissions of PPMs and NOx which are above legal
limits in many areas."
I have recently
been in touch with Graham Turnbull and he would be happy to put a device on
Brocco Bank if someone is willing to offer a position (I'm guessing a front
garden near the road). The devices costs around £34. So far he has been self
funding his research but I
thought if Ecco could manage to buy this it would be well worth it.
Any thoughts would
be welcome, thanks, Clare Anderson
Facebook page Clean
Air Sheffield (link below).
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1836920213190989/?tn-str=*F&fref=gs&dti=1836920213190989&hc_location=group_dialog
I have attached
a flyer for an event at High Storrs on Sunday where it will be possible to see
the monitors.
