Thursday, March 29, 2012

There has been many air quality tradegies through the years that had many deaths and affected a lot of people. There was one in Meuse Valley, Belgium 1930. Coke ovens, steel mills, blast furnaces, zinc smelters, glass factories and sulfuric acid plants produced an estimated SO2 concentration of 8 ppm. It was estimated that the SO2 concentration was reached to 22,600 ug/m3. With in a few days, 600 people feell ill and 63 people died from it. In Donora, PA 1948 Effluents from a number of industries such as a sulfuric acid plant, a steel mill, and a zinc production plant became trapped in a shallow valley inversion to produce an unbreathable mixture of fog and pollution.6,000 became ill and there were 20 deaths. In London, England

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