site.btaAir Pollution Spike in Dimitrovgrad

Sulphur dioxide haze above the permissible average hourly norm of 350 micrograms per cubic metre was registered over Dimitrovgrad on Wednesday at 11 am. The pollution was recorded by the Rakovski automatic measuring station and can be viewed on the website of the Executive Environmental Agency.

This is despite the fact that the local Maritsa 3 thermal power plant has not been operating for a week, the company's chief lawyer Yuliyan Semerdjiev said. The power plant was shut down on October 5 for excessive emissions. 

“There was a recorded exceedance of 360.06 micrograms. For us it was expected,” the director of the Haskovo environmental control authority, Mariana Valcheva, told BTA. She specified that there is a system that monitors the air mass transport and based on its data, the only explanation possible source of the excessive sulphur dioxide emissions is the Maritsa East energy complex.