Ghana - Complaint about Dust Nuisance

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Procedure

Apply In-Person:

1. To Complaint about Dust Nuisance in person, the applicant has approach the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) office in Ghana.
2. Address and contact details can be found in the following Contact link
3. The written application form should be filled all the details while submitted to the office.
4. The applicant has to make sure he or she has all the required documents that are required for this process to be successful and they can be found under the "Required Documents" section of this page.
5. Applicant should attach photocopies of documents (whichever is necessary) along with the applicant form while submitting it at the office.
6. Payment of appropriate fees should be made and that can be found under the "Fees" section of this page.
7. Reporting vehicles to EPA helps them to prevent air pollution in Ghana.
8. As given below, the applicant should give the complaint with proper evidence.
9. If applicant’s complaint is correct, the EPA office will investigate his/her complaint and takes appropriate action.
10. This process will take place within the next 24 hours after seeing the applicant’s complaint.
11. After applicant’s report a smoky car or vehicle, the respective officials check the vehicle description with Ghana Roads.
12. If the details match, the respective officials write to the owner and tell them to get their vehicle checked for repairs.

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Required Documents

• Complaint letter
• Proof of the noise nuisance (video and videos or others)

Office Locations & Contacts

Environmental protection agency (EPA)
Address: HR22+H42, Accra, Ghana
Postal address: P.O .Box M.326 Accra, Ghana
Email id: [email protected]
Phone number: 0302 664697-8/ 0302 662690
Location link
Contact link

Eligibility

• All Ghanaian citizens are eligible.
• Applicant must be submitted a proof of smoke nuisance.

Fees

• Free of charge for this procedure.

Validity

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e.g. Birth Certificate Valid Forever

Documents to Use

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Sample Documents

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Processing Time

• The processing time for this procedure takes 1 day.

Related Videos

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications.
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type='website'>video ID|width|height<&/video&>
from external websites.
Please remove the '&' inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver,
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M' Video ID is 'Y0US7oR_t3M'.

Instructions

• In Ghana permissible ambient noise as set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for residential areas requires that, during the day noise levels should not be above 55 decibels during the day and 48 at night (EPA, 2008).

Required Information

Pollution report

• Pollutions’ type
• First name of the applicant
• Last name of the applicant
• Contact number of the applicant
• Address of the applicant
• Email id of the applicant
• What – vehicle details, registration number and colour.
• When – the exact time and date the applicant saw the smoky vehicle.
• Where – where the vehicle was and what road it was travelling on.

Need for the Document

• Dust pollution caused by smoky and hazards to people can be avoided by filing this complaint. This complaint will greatly help to avoid dust nuisance if humans, animals, birds are not to be affected and the environment is not polluted by this dust. Therefore, if pollution is avoided, the risks of human pollution to humans such as, cold, cough and allergy can be avoided as much as possible.

Information which might help

• EPA or a designated Federal agency regulates noise sources, such as rail and motor carriers, low noise emission products, construction equipment, transport equipment, trucks, motorcycles, and the labelling of hearing protection devices.

Other uses of the Document/Certificate

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e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

External Links

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Others

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