Environmental impact Evaluation of Brick factories on West of AL-Diwaneyha city _Iraq

Abstract

The objective of this study is to evaluate the environmental impact of a brick factory complex in the west part of AL-Diwaneyah city. In the study, the site characteristics of the brick factories and compares them with the locational determinants in the Iraqi environmental laws were assessed. The Arc.GIS software has used to process the spatial data and displays. The spatial analysis show that the current site of brick factories does not conform to the current laws and regulations of Iraq. So, it eventually will create environmental problem to the city's expansion or factories development. Furthermore, air quality in the west of city has measured in some monitoring sites along the direction of wind, close to the brick factories. The gases concentration measurement has continued for 12 days and24 hours per day in the monitoring sites.SO2, NO2, CO and NMHC were measured which showed that the maximum values of SO2, NO2 and NMHC were higher than Iraqi standard while the CO value was very low.