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Noise
Pollution
Noise generated from a wide range of sources
can affect other people's enjoyment of the
environment and is therefore considered a
serious issue.
The noise regulation is generally based upon
complaints from members of the public, so
it is usually in your best interests as a
neighbor or business operator to take steps
to minimise the noise you make and to limit
noisy activities to the specified times of
the day or night.
Noise Pollution Survey of Peshawar
City
Noise survey was conducted at the main traffic
junctions and it was observed that the average
noise level in Peshawar City is in range of
90dB- 100dB as compared to the WHO limits
of 85 dB (decibel). The main source is the
pressure horns and the defective silencers
of the two-stroke auto rikshaws.
Campaign against Pressure Horns
EPA mobile team, with the cooperation of traffic
police carried a campaign against vehicles
with pressure horns. As a result vehicles
were checked and 3804 pressure horns removed
and destroyed. The campaign is in progress
in collaboration with Traffic Police and Military
Police.
The detail is as under:
1st phase (20th Sept: to
1st Nov: 1999) 552 pressure horns
were removed from 501 vehicles in 20
working days &
bulldozed on 23-12-1999.
2nd phase (19th Jan: to 28th Mar: 2000) 1018
pressure horns
were removed from 1007 vehicles in
31 working days &
bulldozed on 13-12-02.
3rd phase (11th May. to 26th
Sep: 2000 ) 1068 pressure horns
were removed from 1068 vehicles in
42 working days &
bulldozed on 13-12-02.
4th phase (19th March.to
13th June.2001 ) 504 pressure
horns were removed from 936 vehicles
in 21 working days &
bulldozed on 29-06-2002.
5th phase ( 09th April. to
30th May.2002 ) 375 pressure horns were
removed from 734 vehicles
in 20 working days & bulldozed on 29-06-2002.
6th phase ( 02nd Oct. to
23rd Nov.2002 ) 287 pressure horns were
removed from 1822 vehicles in
44 working days in Cantonment Board Area &
now are lying in Station
Headquarter Office Peshawar.
So far during the whole campaign, total 3804
pressure horns were removed from 6068 vehicles
in 178 working days.
Solid Waste
Nearly everything we do leaves
behind some kind of waste. Households create
ordinary garbage. Industrial and manufacturing
processes create solid and hazardous waste.
In response to the public complaints EPA,
NWFP forced PDA to select a landfill for the
disposal of municipal waste of Hayatabad area.
A sight has now been marked for the landfill
and PDA is also negotiating with private firms
for any possibility of installation of a composting
plant for the solid waste.
With the technical assistance of EPA, four
main hospitals of NWFP have been provided
with incinerators and it is hoped that the
problem of hospital waste would soon be solved.
The hospital administrations have also conducted
training workshops for the staff.
with the help of National Environmental Consulting
(pvt) Ltd. and GTZ, the following reports
were prepared:
- "Pilot Programme on Hospital Waste
Management" Hayat Shaheed Hospital,
Peshawar - March 1999
- "Pilot Programme on Hospital Waste
Management" Lady Reading Hospital,
Peshawar - March 1999
- "Pilot Programme on Hospital Waste
Management" Hayatabad Medical Complex,
Peshawar - March 1999
UIEP Pilot project Safe Guarding
and Disposal of Out-dated Pesticides was implemented
in May 1999. The impacts of such project were
following:
- A foreign manufacturer (BAYER) of pesticides
was convinced to take care for the safe
disposal of their outdated products
- The plant protection department is clean
and odorless for the first time in twenty
years
- No public complaints regarding foul
smell in vacinity
- UIEP staff and a local pesticide spraying
company is trained for safeguarding of
absolute pesticides
- After the workshop in Islamabad other
provinces were asked by federal environmental
ministry to follow UIEP project
- First time in history of Pakistan the
threat posed by expired pesticides has
been given attention, which it actually
deserved and awareness was created.
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