Environmental Monitoring – an Essential Element in the System of Environmental Safety Areas of Concern (Sverdlovsk Oblast)

Abstract

More than 60% of population of the Sverdlovsk Oblast live in 13 municipalities classified as environmentally disadvantaged as air state. Analysis of organization of air quality monitoring system in the region reveals a distinct lack of the number of fixed stations monitoring air pollution in the municipalities with adverse environmental conditions. There were identified ways to further enhance both the state and the regional network of air monitoring. It was established that despite the implementation of measures on air quality in the region, the number of towns with very high levels of air pollution for the period 2011 – 2013, increased. There was carried out analysis of the levels of the air pollution in urban districts Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Polevskoy and Rezh, on the territory of which, in accordance with the convention on the environmental safety of the Sverdlovsk Oblast in 2015 should be indicators of the quality of the quality of the environment achieved, allowing to exclude them from the list of municipalities with the environmentally unfavorable situation.