Urban Noise: A Case Study in Dire-Dawa City, Ethiopia

Belay Sitotaw Goshu; Hailemariam Mamo; Solomon Zerihun

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Urban Noise: A Case Study in Dire-Dawa City, Ethiopia

Belay Sitotaw Goshu, Hailemariam Mamo, Solomon Zerihun

Published in European Journal of Biophysics (Volume 5, Issue 1)

Received: 20 December 2016 Accepted: 6 January 2017 Published: 2 March 2017

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Abstract

Urban noise pollution is one of the problems of the people who live in urban area and it is a cause of health and social problem. The main purpose of this work is to identify the major cause of the pollution and to determine the noise pollution levels in the city. A study was conducted on the main roads of Dire-Dawa city using digital Sound Level Meter (SLM). A case study was illustrated by applying standardized methods to find noise pollution in the city. It was found that the noise levels in overall city were very high and above the permissible limits. The result revealed that in the selected area of hospitals, the noise pollution is 103.68 and 104.27 dB during morning and in afternoon respectively. In general, the average values of the noise levels throughout the study area were between 45 and 95 dB in places of bargele and Medirbabur respectively.

Published in	European Journal of Biophysics (Volume 5, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ejb.20170501.13
Page(s)	17-26
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Noise Level, Noise Pollution, Sound Level Meter

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Belay Sitotaw Goshu

Department of Physics and Biology, Dire-Dawa University, Dire-Dawa, Ethiopia
Hailemariam Mamo

Department of Physics and Biology, Dire-Dawa University, Dire-Dawa, Ethiopia
Solomon Zerihun

Department of Physics and Biology, Dire-Dawa University, Dire-Dawa, Ethiopia

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