For four months, the air quality of Saint-Martin has been measured. The Gwad'Air association has installed a fixed station in the parking lot of the prefecture in Marigot to ensure its two main missions that it has carried out in Guadeloupe since 2000, namely the measurement and forecasting of air quality.
Sensors on the roof of the station make it possible to measure pollution due to human activity but also natural in real time (nitrogen oxides, fine particles, etc.). The data are recorded in machines and transmitted to the headquarters of the association in Guadeloupe. If a regulatory threshold is exceeded, Gwad'Air immediately informs the authorities who will broadcast a warning message to the population.
Until then Gwad'Air carried out measurements on an ad hoc basis with a mobile station. From now on, this fixed station will make it possible to improve local knowledge and deliver daily information. On the home page of the association's website, the air quality for the day is indicated according to a color code.
The cost of the station amounts to 75 euros of which 000 euros were financed by the State (Ministry of the Environment) and the rest by the association.
The two parties, with the support of the Collectivity, would like to extend their partnership to real-time air measurement on sites affected by Sargassum groundings, as Gwad'Air is already doing in Guadeloupe. (soualigaspost.com)
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