SANTIAGO.- After the Metropolitan City Government declared an Environmental Alert yesterday due to the high pollution indexes registered at monitoring stations in the southern part of the capital, Santiago awoke today to high levels of contaminating particles in the air.
Just as has been the case in previous alerts, Cerro Navia is the municipality with the highest index of smog, reaching 207 according to the latest measurement taken by health authorities, who classify the index as “poor”.
Cerro Navia is followed by Pudahuel and Cerrillos, which have reported “regular” levels after their monitoring stations registered indexes of 129 and 124 at 7 AM this morning.
In the rest of the municipalities were measurements were taken, such as Independencia, La Florida, Las Condes, Santiago and El Bosque, contamination has not caused pollution levels to rise.