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Why Monitor Air Quality?

Why Monitor Air Quality?. Leroy Williams Gila River Indian Community. Why Air Monitoring?. Judge compliance with and/or progress made towards meeting ambient air quality standards Activate emergency control procedures that prevent or alleviate air pollution episodes

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Why Monitor Air Quality?

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  1. Why Monitor Air Quality? Leroy Williams Gila River Indian Community

  2. Why Air Monitoring? • Judge compliance with and/or progress made towards meeting ambient air quality standards • Activate emergency control procedures that prevent or alleviate air pollution episodes • Observe pollution trends throughout region, including non-urban areas • Provide a data base for • Research evaluation of effects: urban, land-use, and transportation planning • Development and evaluation of abatement strategies • Development and validation of diffusion models

  3. Air Quality on reservation has important implications for • Quality of life • Culture and religion • Economic development • Other

  4. One way to protect and assess air quality: develop ambient air monitoring program

  5. GRIC DEQ Air Monitoring Program • Collected quality data for ozone and particulate matter since 2002 • Three air monitoring stations • Sacaton • Casa Blanca • St Johns

  6. AQI Colors • EPA assigned specific color to each AQI category • Easier to understand community air pollution risk. Examples: • Orange = unhealthy for sensitive groups • Red = unhealthy for everyone

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