AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN

THE CITY OF GDAŃSK

City of Gdańsk

Department for Environment

Dagmara Nagórka-Kmiecik www.gdansk.pl

• Population: over 455 000 inhabitants

• Area: 262km2

The city of Gdańsk

Our Gdańsk Old Town

Gdańsk

Old Town

The Crane over

Motława River

Gdańsk

Green areas in

Gdańsk

Historical monuments

Gdańsk

AIR POLLUTION SOURCES

various industrial processes

raising traffic

processes of burning coal

heat and electricity generating plants

different hating systems such as local

boilers and still existing stoves

FACTORIES WITH INFLUENCE ON

AIR CONDITION Electricity and Heat Generating Plant „Wybrzeże”

Gdańsk Refinery

Pollytag Company (converting ashes from Electricity Plant into gravel)

Shipyards

PARAMETERS MEASURED TO

EVALUATE THE AIR QUALITY

Considering the citizens health:

Sulphur Dioxide SO2

Nitrogen Dioxide NO2

Particulate Matter PM10 and PM 2,5

Carbon Monoxide CO

Benzene C6H6

Ozone O3

Considering protection of plants: SO2, NO2, O3.

THE AIR QUALITY

MONITORING SYSTEM

The air quality tests in the City of Gdańsk are

provided by:

Voivodship Inspectorates for Environmental Protection in Gdańsk,

a network of automatic measuring stations of the ARMAAG Foundation (Agency for Regional Monitoring of the Atmosphere in the Gdańsk Agglomeration).

Data from the automatic monitoring network in Gdańsk metropolitan area enables:

identification of the areas and possible pollution sources,

verification of the criteria to evaluate the air quality,

evaluation of long term tendencies,

modelling processes.

5 MAIN STATIONS LOCATED IN

GDAŃSK – WITHIN THE

REGIONAL MONITORING NETWORK

ACCESS TO THE AIR QUALITY

INFORMARION

„Environmental quality assessment” (annual reports published since 1991)

city web site www.gdansk.pl

„Annual Report evaluating the city condition”

information panel

ARMAAG web site and annual reports

ON LINE AIR QUALITY INDEX

In November 2006 the first information panels were installed in Gdańsk and Gdynia.

The panels are located in the city hall buildings, they are automatically operated and they present data on the air quality on the current basis. The information on air quality index as well as on different institutions and projects referring to the protection of the air are also presented.

CITY HALL IN GDAŃSK

ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT

PROBLEMS WE DEAL WITH…

Individual and local heating systems – boiler houses fuelled with coal

Transport

PM10 suspended matter

Benzo(a)pyrene

Burning waste

The city of Gdańsk is consequently implementing the Emission

reduction plan adopted by the City Council on 22 May 1997.

According to the plan the following activities are taken:

liquidation and modernization of the remaining local boiler

houses fuelled by coal in the municipal buildings and Gdansk

Heating Company sp. z o.o. utilities

decrease of the amount of individual coal stoves

AIR POLLUTION REDUCTION PLAN

pollution reduction from transport – by modernization of

municipal buses and trams, building cycle paths and bicycle parks,

improving the public transportation services

increasing the green spaces area and the number of trees

planted in the city – to absorb the CO2 emission

activities aiming at increase of use of energy from renewable

sources (heat pumps, solar collectors, biomass).

AIR POLLUTION REDUCTION PLAN

LIQUIDATION OF LOCAL BOILER

HOUSES AND COAL STOVES

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Number of contracts /szt/

Year

Number of agreements to co-finance the installation of a solar collectors

and modernization of heating systems

installation of solar collector

modernization of heating (conversion of coal to gas heating, electric, connection to msc)

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Amount /zł/

Year

Expenses for the installation of solar collector and modernization of heating in 2011-2014

installation of solar collector

modernization of heating (conversion of coal to gas heating, electric, connection to msc)

The individuals modernizing

their heating systems

(liquidating coal stoves) can

obtain a dotation from the city

budget. .

LIQUIDATION OF LOCAL BOILER

HOUSES AND COAL STOVES

GDAŃSK MUNICIPAL TRANSPORTATION PROJECT

Project No Z/2.22/I/1.6/26/05

Co-financed by the European Union –

European Regional Development Fund

within the Regional Operational

Programme - „Development of public

transport in agglomerations.

Purchase of public transport means:

3 tram cars

28 buses.

The new tram line along

Havel Avenue with "park & ride” system

Road investments

Construction of tunnel

under the Dead Vistula River

TBM "DAMROKA" machine with a diameter of 12.5 m

Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway

Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway

Lech Walesa Airport and the Pomeranian

Metropolitan Railway

New road projects in Gdansk

SOUTHERN CITY BYPASS

• The Southern City Bypass is one of the most important road investments in the city

• It will allow those driving through the city to bypass the densely built-up areas of the

city centre and the new residential districts in the south of the city. It will also improve

transport between the port, Tri-city Bypass and the A-1 motorway, which is under

construction. The Southern Bypass will considerably contribute to the reduction of

traffic in the city centre and facilitate a quick exit from the city using Sucharskiego

Street. The Southern Bypass will direct transit traffic from national roads No 7 (the

future express road S7) and No 1 to the existing express road S6. Every day, thirty

thousand vehicles enter the city centre of Gdansk by the national road No 7 (from

Warsaw) and about twelve thousand drives into the city by the national road No 1.

• The total length of the Southern Bypass is 19 km

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Cycle paths – existing and planned

in the years 2007 – 2013

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Active mobility influencing political

changes

Delegates from European Cyclists Federation in Gdańsk

Signing of the agreement

regarding EU co-financing of

the project: „Development of

the cycle transport in the Tri-

City area in the years 2007 -

2013”.

Construction of 34.64 km of

cycle paths is expected as a

result of the project

(including 22,84 km in

Gdańsk)

Our successes

Our successes

Our successes

Thank you

for your attention!!!