Assessment of the Health Impacts of Particulates from the Redevelopment of Kings Cross
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- 作者：Ralph Haynes and Anna Savage
- 关键词：Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) ; Construction ; PMcoarse ; PM10 ; PM2.5
- 刊名：Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
- 出版年：2007
- 出版时间：July, 2007
- 年：2007
- 卷：130
- 期：1-3
- 页码：47-56
- 全文大小：696 KB
- 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
- 刊物主题：Environment
Monitoring, Environmental Analysis and Environmental Ecotoxicology
Ecology
Atmospheric Protection, Air Quality Control and Air Pollution
Environmental Management - 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1573-2959
文摘
The Kings Cross/St. Pancras area has been a rail transport hub from Central London to the Midlands and North Eastern England since the middle of the nineteenth century and dust from the Kings Cross railway lands was even described by Charles Dickens.1 The Channel Tunnel high speed Rail Link (CTRL) is being constructed between 2001 and 2007 to connect continental Europe to Central London. The CTRL and associated development will help regenerate an area that is surrounded by deprived high density housing estates. London Borough of Camden has set up an extensive particulate monitoring programme to determine if there are any health impacts on local residents from emissions from the demolition and construction work. This article assesses the results from particulate measurements in 2003–2004 and compares this to baseline conditions before the redevelopment work began. The evidence suggests that although 2003 had higher than average pollution levels in the UK as a whole, even higher levels of particulates in the size range PM10–PM2.5 (defined as PMcoarse) were measured in Kings Cross. Due to the size of these particulates, they tend to be released from construction works rather than transport or secondary particulate sources. Concentrations in 2004 were lower than 2003, but this was primarily due to meteorological conditions. The paper also looks at the health of the local population and discusses whether these elevated levels are creating a problem and legally constitute a statutory nuisance. The Council continues to work with the contractors to try and ensure best practical means to minimise dust emissions and their effect on local residents.