Installation of Ventilation Systems and Air Showers in Daycare Centers, Senior Centers, and Schools
Expansion to 12 Locations with 3 New Sites Annually Until 2022
[Asia Economy Reporter Jo In-kyung] Seoul City announced on the 11th that it will actively promote customized reduction projects in three districts?Geumcheon-gu, Yeongdeungpo-gu, and Dongjak-gu?designated as fine dust intensive management zones. Additionally, by 2022, Seoul plans to expand the Seoul-type fine dust intensive management zones by adding three districts each year, totaling 12 zones.
Fine dust intensive management zones refer to safe zones designated by Seoul City in areas where large amounts of fine dust are generated and where facilities frequently used by children and the elderly are concentrated. These zones aim to reduce and manage fine dust emissions to protect the health of vulnerable groups. After gathering residents' opinions and consulting with the Ministry of Environment last year, the city officially designated Geumcheon-gu, Yeongdeungpo-gu, and Dongjak-gu as the first such zones nationwide in January this year.
Accordingly, Geumcheon-gu plans to install window-attached ventilation facilities (7 units), smart air showers (1 unit), air curtains (4 units), plant walls (5 units), and fine dust rest shelters (1 unit) at children's facilities, elderly welfare facilities, and the Geumcheon Welfare Center.
Yeongdeungpo-gu will install window-attached ventilation facilities (7 units), smart air showers (3 units), fine dust rest shelters (1 unit), and fine dust indicators (17 units) at children's facilities and elderly welfare facilities.
In Dongjak-gu, window-attached ventilation facilities will be installed at 24 locations including children's facilities, elderly welfare facilities, and elementary schools, along with two IoT monitoring systems at large construction sites.
In addition, the city will conduct comprehensive inspections of air pollution emission facilities to reduce fine dust emissions, intensify crackdowns on vehicle emissions and idling, operate water spraying trucks and dust suction vehicles more than twice daily, install five simple measuring devices within the intensive management zones, and support pollution control facilities at five small-scale air emission sites in Geumcheon-gu and ten in Yeongdeungpo-gu.
The Seoul-type fine dust intensive management zones will be expanded by adding three districts each year, reaching a total of 12 by 2022. To this end, the city is conducting a demand survey among autonomous districts until the 23rd and plans to designate three additional zones by June.
Yoon Jae-sam, Director of the Air Policy Division at Seoul City, stated, "Since we have designated the Seoul-type fine dust safe zones as the first nationwide and are actively promoting them, we will continuously improve and advance the project to become a representative model for fine dust reduction."
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