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In February, Debrecen’s General Assembly adopted the city’s environmental programme, the Green Codex, one of the most critical measures of establishing the Environmental Audit System.
The preparations have been ongoing ever since. Mayor László Papp posted a new update on the project on social media, saying, “The professors of the University of Debrecen and the participating professionals have done an excellent job in preparing the Environmental Audit System.”
Today’s visit started at the complex measuring station at the Southern Economic Zone and continued at the surface water quality measuring station at the Lake.
The Environmental Audit System will include a complex 24-hour-a-day monitoring system for air, soil, groundwater and biodiversity at 16 sites and a surface water quality monitoring system at two sites along the Tócó River. It will also have six fixed and one mobile noise-measuring instrument. The mayor said that the construction of the monitoring stations is progressing according to plan. Containers for the installation of the measuring instruments have been placed, and the installation of the instruments will start next week. The accredited baseline survey is underway.
According to earlier information from the Town Hall, the City of Debrecen and the University of Debrecen intend to establish a continuous and long-term Environmental Audit System to protect the environment, preserve the city’s natural values and serve the well-being and safety of the citizens of Debrecen in a unique way in the country. Developed by professors and experts from the University of Debrecen, the Environmental Audit System will be based on objective measurements and will be based in Debrecen and will have a regional focus on environmental impacts, with a particular emphasis on air quality, water quality, soil, noise and biodiversity.
The information and data collection, analysis, and monitoring system will monitor changes in air, surface and groundwater, soil and biota through instrumental monitoring and continuous sampling.
Source and photo credit: debrecen.hu
