(Haipo) – The Haifa Bay Cities Association for Environmental Protection reported that in the first week of October, two increases in benzene concentrations were recorded at mobile monitoring station 4, located in the courtyard of the Social High School in Kiryat Ata, near the BN complex. According to the wind direction, the source of the pollution was in the BN complex.
Significant deviation from the circadian environmental value
On October 5, a daily concentration of 6.6 mcg/m3 of benzene was measured at the station, which is an excess of about 69% of the daily ambient value, which is 3.9 mcg/m3 in accordance with the Clean Air Law regulations. The day before, on October 4, a concentration of about 3.8 mcg/m3 was measured, which is about 97% of the daily ambient value – that is, very close to exceeding the permitted standard. Depending on the wind direction during the hours when the high concentrations were measured, the source of the pollution was in the benzene complex.
Three exceptions since the beginning of the year – out of seven permitted
Since the beginning of 2026, three deviations from the daily environmental standard for benzene have been recorded at the mobile monitoring station 4: two in August and one in October. According to the regulations, up to seven deviations from the daily environmental standard for benzene are permitted per year. This means that within about three months, three of the seven permitted deviations have already been used, a fact that raises concerns about the continued trend of pollution in a residential area adjacent to the industrial complex.
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Residents seem to care, but not enough to go out and protest.
Sue, request eviction.
It's a fact that it's a known carcinogen. Don't you care?
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Congratulations on the vigilant and thorough monitoring. The question is where should this go? The question is open to all of us - are we doomed to drag in a sled after wild horses of severe and unilateral conduct? A huge crowd of people in the metropolis, with rights and knowledge about them, aspire to this omission again and again, and remain helpless? There is a glove on the floor here, how do you pick it up?
It's no less serious than war. Only a slower death.