Air-monitoring station eyed in Boracay Island

 A researcher of the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI) is eyeing to personally establish an air-monitoring station at the world-class tourist destination of Boracay Island in Malay town, Aklan province.

Raymond Sucgang was in Boracay recently to scout for a location for his proposed project that could precisely measure the level of air pollution.

Sucgang said the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) “still uses the total suspended particulate as an index of air quality.”

His proposed project aims is to accurately detect the level of air pollution that can cause damages to human health.

An Aklanon, Sucgang is also eyeing to establish an air-monitoring station in his hometown of Batan.

But Sucgang discovered that Batan lacked the meteorological equipment that is necessary for monitoring air pollution.

“From my talks with local officials, I learned that Batan is in dire need of rain gauges,” he noted.