The graph below shows the number of complaints made about noise to Environmental Health authorities in the city of Newtown between 1980 and 1996. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The line graph explains the number of complaints from Newtown citizens to Environmental Health Office from 1980 to 1990 regarding noise. In general, there are different trends in the noise caused by road works, traffic, factories, and domestic stuffs.
The noise caused by factories rose steadily in 1980 till 1982. Then, it increased slightly towards 1986. From then onwards, it remained stable. The noise caused by traffic leveled off between 1980 and 1984. Then, it fell steadily till 1986, then it was stable, increased steadily until 1992, and from then grew slightly till 1996. The noise caused by road works had general trend downwards along period 1980 to 1996. The noise caused by household had almost the same trend with noise caused by traffic from 1980 to 1988. However, it rose dramatically towards 1990, then rose slightly until 1996.
From the graph, it can be obviously seen that in the 1996, the most complained noise by societies is noise from domestic environment. This noise is complained by 1200 people. On the contrary, the least complained noise by societies was noise from road works which got less than 200 a number of complaints in 1996.
In conclusion, the picture illustrates the number of complaints which were given by Newtown’s society since 1980 until 1996 to the Environmental Authorities in the town.
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