AIR POLLUTION INDEX IN GYUMRI EIGHT TIMES HIGHER OF PERMITTED LEVEL

Armenpress
Feb 06 2007

GYUMRI, FEBRUARY 6, ARMENPRESS: Air pollution index in Armenia’s
second largest town of Gyumri in winter months is eight times higher
of the permitted level.

Rolan Gasparian, head of the local environmental monitoring laboratory,
said homeless families in the town still leaving in temporary homes
use wood stoves to warm their houses and since woods are too expensive
they burn whatever they find on streets, including plastic bottles
and garbage that can burn.

He said the air in the town is relatively clean in daytime when these
people are out of their homes.

Unlike in winter in summer months the air pollution source are dust
and construction debris.