Temporary Air Quality Monitors Funded by ORCAA
The Olympic Regional Clean Air Agency will provide funding for four air quality monitors, three in Port Angeles and one in Sequim. These monitors will be used for a 2-year study to gauge emissions from the biomass projects in Port Angeles and Port Townsend.
posted by Tom Harper at 11:31 AM
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The monitors will measure particulate matter from ALL sources - traffic, woodstoves, open burning, etc., not just a single source of emissions. The study is meant to determine whether the current monitor at Stevens Middle School is appropriately located since the previous study, conducted over a decade ago.
Ok.
Does somebody in Port Angeles actually care?
Amazing. The Clean Air Agency actually is taking steps to obtain an understanding of the air quality it is mandated to protect! It is so much easier for ORCAA to self-righteously proclaim that it is doing its job if nobody measures air pollution. Now ORCAA will need to start figuring out how to explain away the resulting data.
Congrats to the clear air activists who are making a bit of headway on this issue. However, given ORCAA's track record of dereliction of duty to the public, it would be great if the citizens group could also install their own air monitors next to ORCAA's for purposes of comparing the readings.
everybody in port angeles will care when the cant heat there homes with wood because of the air quality, then have to pay the rediculous rates for electricity.
Hey, Anon 10:24 AM, November 17, 2012:
Guess what? I already don't care about people who are so stoopid as to not be able to spell things correctly or use proper punctuation. That stoopidity might have something to do with your limited earning ability, which then limits your ability to pay your damn bills.
Anonymous 10:24 -- You must be one of the many people who puts money above quality of life. Sadly, there are a lot of you out there.
I'd rather pay for heat and be able to breathe.
Our electricity rates are actually quite low. You're probably upset about the water base fee ($27), the sewer fee ($40!) and the CSO fee ($18 and rising).
As we saw from the last election cycle results, particularly in Clallam County and Port Angeles, we have a LOT of people who put money ahead of much anything else.
Stooopid is, as stooopid does.
Looking for a good (and free!) show next Tuesday evening? Then head on down to city hall and watch Mayor McMoonshine of Nippontown try to stomp down the voices of her own citizens as they show their support for the Wild Olympics. After all, public opinion only matters if it matches your own opinion, don't ya know? AND if it matches the interests of our caring corporate overlords at Nippon.
Now it seems clear why Mayor McMoonshine doesn't understand the desire her subjects have shown to have air monitors in her kingdom. After all those years of having her face buried in Nippon's asscheeks kissing their ass, she's just used to breathing Nippon-produced poison air. So she's understandably confused by why others might not want to breathe those noxious vapors.
No, the glaciers up the hills from Port Angeles are not melting away, despite what photographic comparisons over a few decades show. There is no evidence that we will believe to alter our consuming habits. We are too comfortable in our every day lives to change any of our activities.
Let our children deal with the mess we've created.
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