THE air quality emanating from the Cutler Complex in South Durban will be monitored thanks to an eThekwini Municipality Health Unit project.
In collaboration with Transnet and the Netherlands, the health unit is embarking on an air quality project. The focus, they said, is on a regulatory approach to air quality surveillance and monitoring for odour problems in the Durban Harbour, specifically looking at the Cutler Complex petrochemical storage facility.
The Cutler Complex handles over 30-million tons of cargo annually through the various petrochemical companies situated there. According to the health unit, certain activities therein have the potential to create varying degrees of impact if proper procedures are not followed, causing wide scale odour problems.
Through the collaboration with the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, which houses the largest petrochemical storage facility in the world, the unit hopes to learn the best way forward in tackling this issue, with no cost implications for the city.
