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Medway Council is a member of the Kent and Medway Air Quality Partnership, where data and information about air quality throughout Kent is pooled and shared.
Diffusion tubes
Medway Council uses diffusion tubes to monitor nitrogen dioxide concentrations at 25 locations around Medway.
Continuous monitoring
Medway has continuous automatic air quality stations in Chatham, Luton and Lower Stoke. Monitoring of nitrogen dioxide and particles is carried out at all three sites. The Lower Stoke site also monitors sulphur dioxide and ozone and the Luton site monitors sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and ozone.
Monitoring data can be found at www.kentair.org.uk.
Latest air pollution levels
Daily maximum pollution levels can be found at www.kentair.org.uk/pollutionlevels.php.
Air pollution forecast
Daily updated forecasts of UK air pollution concentrations for up to 24 hours ahead can be found at www.airquality.co.uk/archive/uk_forecasting/apfuk_home.php.
Air quality management
As well as monitoring air quality, the council has a statutory duty to review and assess the air quality in the area periodically. This involves comparing the measured and predicted pollutant levels to national air quality standards and objectives.
There are six areas in Medway where air quality does not meet the objectives for the pollutant nitrogen dioxide. These areas are part of the Medway Air Quality Management Area declared in 2002 and amended in 2004. These can be found at http://laburnum.aeat.co.uk/archive/laqm/laqm.php.
The following documents can be downloaded:
- Air Quality Action Plan (pdf 360KB)
Medway’s Air Quality Action Plan was published in July 2005. The plan concludes the first round of local air quality review and assessment and outlines how the council will use its powers to work in conjunction with other organisations in pursuit of the air quality objectives.
- Progress Report for 2007 (pdf 1,671KB)
This report considers monitoring data for the period January to December 2007 and assesses the data against the relevant air quality objectives. It also considers any significant development changes, including changes to industrial emissions to atmosphere that may have a significant impact on air quality.
- Updating and Screening Assessment (USA) (pdf 2,176KB)
Medway Council published its third USA in April 2009. It provides an update with respect to air quality issues within the Medway area. The USA considers the seven priority health based air quality objectives as laid down in regulations and assesses the likelihood that the air quality objectives will be met by their target dates.
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Air quality links
To report an air pollution problem to Medway Council, please use one of these two online forms:
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