AMBIENT AIR QUALITY MONITORING
NAMP: National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP), financed by the Central Pollution Control Board aims to assess the ambient air quality in the State. Under this programme sixteen monitoring stations have been established at different locations in the state. Air quality within industrial, commercial, residential and sensitive zones are being monitored from these stations. The stations are:
District | Zone | |||
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Industrial | Commercial | Residential | Sensitive | |
Thiruvananthapuram | Veli | Pettah | 1. SMV School, Over Bridge 2. Cosmopolitan Hospital, Murinjapalam | |
Kollam | Chavara | Kadappakada | ||
Pathanamthitta | Makkamkunne | |||
Kottayam | Vadavathoor | Nagampadam | ||
Alappuzha | Pathirapally | Thondamkulangara | ||
Ernakulam | 1. Irumpanam 2. Eloor 3. Kalamessery 4. Udyogamandal | 1. M.G.Road 2. Vytilla | Ernakulam South | |
Thrissur | Patturaikkal | |||
Palakkad | Kanjikode | |||
Malapuram | Kakkanchery | |||
Kozhikode | Nallalam | Palayam | ||
Wayanad | Sulthan Bathery |
SAMP - State Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme
The Board is monitoring ambient air quality at the following stations:
District | Zone | |||
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Industrial | Commercial | Residential | Sensitive | |
Kollam | Chavara | Kadappakada | ||
Pathanamthitta | Makkamkunne | |||
Alappuzha | Pathirapally | Alissery | ||
Thrissur | Poonkunnam | |||
Malapuram | Kakkanchery | |||
Wayanad | Sulthan Bathery |
AMBIENT MONITORING AT IRUMPANAM AND WILLINGTON ISLAND
AMBIENT WATER QUALITY MONITORING
All pollution control activities ultimately aim at maintenance and restoration of the quality of the natural resources. Hence knowledge of the ambient quality of resources is a prerequisite for planning and execution of pollution control management strategies. The Board maintains a network for monitoring of the ambient quality of the rich and varied water resources of the state. There are 2 major programmes for ambient water quality monitoring with the Board. They are
1. National Water Quality Monitoring Programme (NWMP)
Sponsored by the CPCB scheme covers a total of 110 stations altogether in rivers, lakes, ponds ground water stations.
2. State Water Quality Monitoring Scheme (SWMP)
This scheme covers stations monitored by the Board on its own and includes 114 river stations.
On the whole there are 224 monitoring stations are maintained by the Board in the State under the above two ambient water quality monitoring programmes. This extensive monitoring network covers more than 90% of the inland water resources of the state. The tables below provides the details of the monitoring network of the Board under the two programmes.
- NATIONAL WATER QUALITY MONITORING PROGRAMME NETWORK (NWMP)AS on 2009
- AMBIENT WATER QUALITY MONITORING NETWORK OF KERALA STATE POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD (SWMP)