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The Ministry of Environmental Protection has allocated a million shekels (about $250,000) for air quality mapping in Haifa Bay. The project, scheduled to begin on June 10, 2007, will measure and map air quality in terms of "exotic" pollutants - pollutants which are not routinely measured in monitoring stations. During the course of the project, four series of air sampling and analysis will be carried out, two in the summer and autumn of 2007 and the rest in the winter and spring of 2008. The director of the Haifa region of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Robert Reuven, announced that air sampling will be undertaken in some 20 points around industrial plants and adjacent residential areas. The air pollutants which will be checked include dioxins and furans, volatile organic compounds, polyaromatics, particulates, heavy metals, ammonia, mercaptains and hydrogen sulfide, all of which are hazardous and toxic air pollutants emitted by industrial and transportation sources. Sampling is meant to provide a basic picture of air quality conditions and the location of hot spots in Haifa Bay. A decision on the continuation of the project will be taken based on preliminary results and resource availability.
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