Chief Inspectorate of Environment Protection NOISE MONITORING in

Chief Inspectorate of Environment Protection NOISE MONITORING in Poland. Selected examples with special respect to pilot project in Gdansk Meeting of the EIONET NRC – Noise Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 NATIONAL INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

The similar presentation was demonstrated on the FIRST MEETING of the Interest Group on Traffic Noise Abatement – IGNA Zurich, Swiss, 30 th June 2011

About Author: . Radosław J. Kucharski, Ph. D (National Reference Center) Research Institute of Environmental Protection Krucza street 5/11 D; 00 -548 Warsaw tel (+48 22) 621 36 70 fax (+48 22) 629 52 63 http: \www. ios. edu. pl Environmental Noise Unit Kolektorska street 4; 01 -692 Warsaw tel. (+48 22) 832 39 66 fax (+48 22) 833 69 28 e-mail kuchar@ios. edu. pl or radoslaw. kucharski@gmail. com ) Accreditation certificate in the fields of measurements of the: • traffic and industrial noise, including acoustic impulse , • sound power „in situ” acc. to the EU standards, • sound transmission lost of the noise barriers – „in situ” tests

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 The scope of presentation • Part 1 - Noise Monitoring System – backgrounds, outputs etc. (in short version – only few slides) • Part 2 - The new experience – continuous noise monitoring system in Gdańsk NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Environmental Monitoring System legal aspects „Environment Protection Code” Act (EPC Act) constitutes. in: Article 25: „The source of information about the environmental conditions is particularly: State Environmental Monitoring System (SEMS) NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Environmental Monitoring System legal aspects For this reason the term „MONITORING” may be understood in two meanings: • wide score – observations of all impacts, trends and phenomena, • limited score – systematic measurements of given quantity NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Environmental Monitoring System legal aspects The State Environmental Monitoring System was established in 1991 (Inspection of Environmental Protection Act from 20 th July 1991). Main target of the System: Preservation of the delivering of reliable information about the state-of-art of environmental conditions. Chief Inspectorate of Environment Protection(GIOS) (acting like Polish Environmental Agency) Is the main institution for Monitoring (wide-sense) managment NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 FINAL INFORMATION Environmental Monitoring System Assessments and Forecasts State-of-art of environmental conditions General Scope of the SEMS The external data (from outside the System); especially economy forecats and trends as well as developement of different branches) Impacts (pressure) State Environmental Monitoring System NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit One of the Sub-systems in the Monitoring System is so called Noise Monitoring

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Environmental Monitoring System Sub-system NOISE Sub-system „Noise” acts from 1992. The backgrounds of the System was developed on three layers: q Organizational – noise units (including measurements groups) in voivodship inspectorates of environment protection, q Methodological – at first – instuctions and guidelines including operational procedures and measurements methods. At present – legal acts including reference measurements methods, q Data handling – Data Base OPH, fulfils its duty from 1992, continously develops (vide next slides). NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 System OPH (part 1), collect information about SYSTEM OF THE NOISE DATA BASES (REGISTER) External libraries (CENTER) Results of noise mapping process delivered to Commission due to DEN obligations Action Plans Summaries Results of the „noise automonitoring” obligatory done by industrial plants and installations DATA BASES OPH Industrial noise Traffic noise Railway noise Aircraft noise Results of the noise measurements within Environmental Impact Assessments Results of the noise measurements carried out during post-investment checking process Noisy objects as well as about Measurement point – 1 (n=1) Measurement point – 1 (n=2) ……… …… Measurement point – 1 (n=N) Go to A NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 System OPH (part 2) Specific Data Base for the parameters of single noise sources Library collected parameters of the single (physical) noise source, like car, train, fan, aircraft etc. The Data Base shoul be functional conected with the noisy object (adopted as the substitute source of environmental noise) A Measurement point - 2 (n=1) (for the trafic, railway, industrial and aircraft noie) Measurement All measurements/calculation results (the present and also previous data). The collection include all data acoustic (level) as well as „nonacoustic” like traffic density etc. . ……… …… detailed information available in the full version Measurement point - 2 (n=N) (for the trafic, railway, industrial and aircraft noie) Files of the Data Base include all „first-hand” (oryginal) not processed data like binary files aquired directly from the measurement’s equipement. That category of data is only on the lowest level (laboratory level). „The software tools” for: • Calculations of the equivalent noise level on the basis of partly measurements results, • Assessments of the lon-term noise levels (like Lden and Lnight), • Assesments of the uncertainity, • Noise measurement equipment online steering, • Internet on-line connection between DATA BASE OPH and measurements piont, • Internet on-line connection from the measurementsd point with the map of area to be measurered NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Part 2 – The new experience Continuous noise monitoring system in Gdańsk, as an element of the Noise Monitoring System NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Continuous monitoring system in the City Gdańsk (Pilot project) The System developed for the Gdańsk Authority Environment Department Administrator of the system: Jan Grabowski NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 NOISE MONITORS NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Background idea of the System 1. Investigations’ results 2. International standards Realy technical solution NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 SYSTEM Authors’s Team of the System: 1. COMONET Sp. z o. o. Gdańsk, ul. Jana Pawła II 20; 2. BMT Argoss Sp. z o. o. Gdańsk, ul. Kościerska 7 3. SONOPAN Sp. z o. o. Białystok, ul. Ciołkowskiego 2. (production of monitors) NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Idea and the Management of the System 2. „Low conflict” and relatively cheap connections with „Center of Menagement „ 1. Series of the MONITORS for environmental conditions measurements. The MONITORS should be simple and cheap NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Management of the System Previous solution: • the environment conditions’ monitors 1) were connected with the central data base by telephone cable lines indirectly – using telephone net exchanges. • the electric power was delivered also by telephone cable. • the first „pre-processing” phase was ensured in the local telephone exchange. 1) Noise monitors as well as wheather monitors NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit The part of the monitoring system hardware in the telephone exchange (example)

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Management of the System Present solution: • the environment condition’s monitors are connected with the central data base by using GSM technology. • the electric power is delivered from the 220/230 V electric power net. • data collection have place direct in central data base (without intermediate level). This solution ensures possibilities of the easy steering with measurements parameters (on-line). NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Setting of the measurements points GDAŃSK (Noise map) PREVIOUS SOLUTION (started in the 2009) Included 39 localizations of measurements points NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Setting of the measurements points GDAŃSK (Noise map) PREVIOUS SOLUTION (start in the 2009) 39 localizations of measurements points Recent development: (started in year 2011) System is equiped with 45 monitors more (like the old one) NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Continuous Noise Monitor - example ul. Miszewskiego 18 The monitors are situated on the buildings’ facades at the hight = 4 m NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Continuous Noise Monitor - example ul. Partyzantów 36 The monitors are situated on the buildings’ facades at the hight = 4 m It can be mentioned that dimenssions of the plate and its location are „thief-resistant” NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 The portal consists of few thematic pages: Start Map Diagrams Data Reports Monitors Help Activity of the system may be observed on the www Portal Symbols Description NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 www Page www page On the page „Map” one can send Information about specific monitor After mark the specific location of the monitor the basic information are shown in the special box. The measured data might be used for: comparisons with the noise map, validation process, other aims etc. NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Noise map of Gdansk Noise level in the specific point measured on the facade is (for example) 77, 2 d. B This value is used for: as well as Validation of the existing map NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit Input data for the new map

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 By using data from many points, collected in the same time HOW ? ? ? NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Reports Diagrams Meteorological data Conditions: Name of road (street) Kind of the road Kind of report Number Date of setting From… Data of lanes To…. No of point Quality of the road (state-ofart. ) Traffic conditions Traffic parameters NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Detailed data for analysis (1) Noise level changes during 24 hrs NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Detailed data for analysis (2) SUNDAYS Noise level changes (LAeq, 1 h) during one month NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Detailed data for analysis (3) NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Example of the comparison Noise source (road) Noise meters Noise monitor The two solutions were compared: Test q „traditional” noise meter” situation q noise monitor on the facade. Noise Monitor on the artificial facade NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Results of the comparison NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Uncertainty budget (two significant values) Background error of the equipement Deviation of the microphone characteristics due to flat one NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit

Meeting of the NRC – Noise, Copenhagen, 26 th – 27 th October 2011 Costs of the monitoring system The costs of the implementation of the system (previous solution based on the telephone cable lines): ca 250, 000 PLN (that is ca 60, 000 EUR) for the 40 monitors system. The annual rate of the system usage: up to 100, 000 PLN (ca 25, 000 EUR). The costs of the present solution (GSM) are similar like costs of the old one. NATIONAl INSTITUTE of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – Noise Unit