East Cambridgeshire District Council

Road traffic is a common source of pollution and its detrimental impact on local air quality needs to be managed. To understand what the situation is currently, monitoring is needed to assess whether the air quality in any part of East Cambridgeshire is problematic.  With the assistance of Leicester City Council, we have recently installed an air quality monitor in the south of Ely to help investigate the impact of recent changes within the city.

Latest Information on Air Quality in the District

The recent data indicates that the air quality in East Cambridgeshire is within the objectives set by the government. The information is obtained from a number of sources. Firstly, a number of small Nitrogen Dioxide diffusion tubes are positioned in various locations around the district. The information provided by these diffusion tubes gives us an indication of the impact on air quality from road traffic. The Council also has a permanent station for monitoring levels of PM10, which are very fine particles in the air.