By-pass has led to ‘significant’ improvement in air quality

HARMFUL emissions measured by a monitoring station in Dungiven have dropped significantly since the new A6 was opened bypassing the town.

News of a dramatic improvement in air quality was delivered to members of Causeway Coast and Glens Council’s Environmental Services Committee last Tuesday.

Councillors heard emissions were now “well below normal” for a town of Dungiven’s size.

It was back in 2008 that concerns over air pollution were raised officially in Dungiven.

Officials identified raised levels of nitrous oxide in the town’s Main Street which was, at the time, on the primary route for traffic between Belfast and Londonderry.

Read the full story in this week’s Constitution and Chronicle.