Opening and 1st Coordination Meeting of the 'Development of Alternative Scenarios for Noise Reduction in Sivas Province Sensitive Areas' Project was organized.
On 1 February 2017, the opening and 1st Coordination Meeting of the 'Development of Alternative Scenarios for Noise Reduction in Sivas Province Sensitive Areas' Project was held at Sivas Municipality Council Hall. Mayor of Sivas Municipality Sami AYDIN, Deputy Mayor of Sivas Municipality Mehmet Muaz UZUN, Director of Environmental Protection and Control Abdurrahman GÜNEY, Bahattin ŞAHİN from Sivas Municipality Environmental Protection and Control Directorate and representatives of institutions that can contribute to the project attended the meeting. Project Executive Specialist Researcher Deniz SARI from TUBITAK Marmara Research Center Environment and Cleaner Production Institute made a presentation on the project and together with Researcher Melike Neşe TEZEL provided information about the data to be provided within the scope of the project.
Within the scope of the project agreement signed between TUBITAK Marmara Research Center and Sivas Municipality on January 13, 2017, hot spots in terms of environmental noise will be identified in residential areas in Sivas where strategic noise maps have been prepared and noise action plans will be prepared in which mitigation scenarios will be developed.
In this context; Noise Management Candidate Areas (NMAAs) where the limit values specified in the By-Law on Environmental Noise Assessment and Management are exceeded and sensitive structures are located for each source group (road, railway, industry and entertainment) will be determined in the residential areas where strategic noise maps are prepared in Sivas.
Coordination meetings will be organized and the opinions of responsible institutions and organizations and other project stakeholders will be taken and Noise Management Areas (NMAs) will be identified from the NMAs. In addition, projects planned by responsible institutions/organizations that may have an impact on noise management will also be evaluated and source-based alternative mitigation scenarios will be developed for the identified GYAs.
Within the scope of the scenarios developed for the solutions included in the mitigation scenarios; modeling will be carried out using the actions that will provide the predicted noise reduction at sources, between sources and receptors and at receptors. As a result of the modeling, the levels of reduction in the existing noise level based on the source will be determined.
Noise Action Plan for Sivas, which includes all the calculation and evaluation results obtained by performing cost-benefit analyzes for the mitigation scenarios developed, will be completed.
