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Duwamish Valley Air: The knowns and the unknowns

Duwamish Valley Air: The knowns and the unknowns. Duwamish Community Action for Clean Air Erik Saganić (PSCAA), James Rasmussen (DRCC/TAG) June 2015. Part of Duwamish Community Action for Clean Air Efforts. Members: Georgetown Community Council South Park Neighborhood Association

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Duwamish Valley Air: The knowns and the unknowns

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  1. Duwamish Valley Air:The knowns and the unknowns Duwamish Community Action for Clean Air Erik Saganić (PSCAA), James Rasmussen (DRCC/TAG) June 2015

  2. Part of Duwamish Community Action for Clean Air Efforts • Members: • Georgetown Community Council • South Park Neighborhood Association • American Lung Association • Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition/Technical Advisory Group • Just Health Action • Public Health – Seattle and King County • Puget Sound Clean Air Agency • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency • Western Washington University

  3. Who Oversees Your Air Quality? • National Level – Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) • State Level – Washington State Department of Ecology • County Level – Puget Sound Clean Air Agency

  4. PSCAA Overview • Oversee outdoor air quality • Enforcement authority over industrial activities • No enforcement authority over cars and trucks, trains, or airplanes • We promote partnerships where we have little authority

  5. What do we know? Diesel exhaust is highest source of health risk • PSCAA 2010 Air Toxics Study • UW-Sage DEEDS Study

  6. Who is affected? • Expectant mothers • Children • People living with heart or lung disease • Undiagnosed older adults

  7. Air quality steadily improving

  8. New technology improvements

  9. Diesel exhaust trends

  10. What we’ve done to reduce pollution in Georgetown/South Park? • We partnered with the NW ports to update the NW Ports Clean Air Strategy • Reduce diesel exhaust by 80% by 2020 • Ongoing, ScRAPS2 with Port of Seattle • To date, scrapped 397 older trucks and funding for 110 more this year. • Diesel Solutions Program examples: • Retrofits at the Port of Seattle • Retrofitted all school buses in Puget Sound • Inspect and permit industrial sources • Example: PSCAA gave oral argument to the federal District Court regarding if PSCAA has authority to require Ardagh (glass manufacturer on E Marginal Way S) to install a proposed Reasonably Available Control Technology. To date, the court’s decision has not yet been made.

  11. The unknowns • When are businesses bad neighbors? • What is community members exposure? • How much gets inside your house? • Where are you during the day? • How are issues (e.g. asthma) related to indoor vs. outdoor air quality? • Indoor air risks are hard to measure

  12. The unknowns (page 2) • How did the reopening of the South Park Bridge change pollution levels in town? • Effectiveness of each mitigation effort (could a project make it worse?) • Ages of all the trucks driving near and through the neighborhoods • Where is the diesel coming from (highway? roads? industry? ships? elsewhere)?

  13. Fact sheet

  14. Next steps

  15. Questions

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