Key Health Data for the West Midlands 2003

Table 11.1. Objectives to be included in Regulations for the purposes of Local Air Quality Management


Pollutant

Objective

Date to be achieved by

Benzene

16.25 µg/m3

Running annual mean

31 December 2003

1.3-Butadene

2.25 µg/m3

Running annual mean

31 December 2003

Carbon monoxide

10.0 mg/m3

Running 8 hour mean

31 December 2003

Lead

0.5 µg/m3

Annual mean

31 December 2004

0.25 µg/m3

Annual mean

31 December 2006

Nitrogen dioxide

200 µg/m3
Not to be exceeded more than 18 times per year

1 hour mean

31 December 2005

40 µg/m3

Annual mean

31 December 2006

Particles (PM10)

50 µg/m3
Not to be exceeded more than 35 times per year

24 hour mean

31 December 2004

40 µg/m3

Annual mean

31 December 2004

Sulphur dioxide

350 µg/m3
Not to be exceeded more than 24 times per year

1 hour mean

31 December 2004

125 µg/m3
Not to be exceeded more than 3 times per year

24 hour mean

31 December 2004

266 µg/m3
Not to be exceeded more than 35 times per year

15 minute mean

31 December 2005

Table taken from The Air Quality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Working Together for Clean Air. 2000.Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, London

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