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Community Based Air
Monitoring Projects
1
Monitoring Projects
National Monitoring Steering Committee
July 20, 2012
Camden “Bucket Brigade”
Community Monitoring Study
2
Paulsboro High School
Paulsboro, New Jeresy
Mabel Holmes Middle School
Elizabeth, New Jersey
Previous Community Projects- Staten Island/New Jersey Urban Air Toxics Assessment Project
� 1987-1991-final report 1993
- Camden Waterfront Air Toxics Pilot Project
� Started fall 2002, final report 2005
- Urban Community Air Toxics Monitoring Project Paterson City, NJ (UCAMPP)
� Monitoring 2005-2006, final report 2010
- Additional Air Monitoring in Paterson Study (AAMPS)
� Monitoring 2009-2010, final report 2012
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• Need to be part of larger effort to address community issues
• One tool among other (Inventories,
What Did We Learn About Community Monitoring Projects?
• One tool among other (Inventories, Modeling, other monitoring)
• Regulatory uses may be limited
• Can be a positive means of engaging communities and collecting essential data
Community Monitoring Initiative
Challenges• No one solution fits all
• Engaging all stakeholders
• Resources
– Funding– Funding
– Staffing
– Community Resources
Community Monitoring Initiative
Challenges (cont.)• Using the results
– Transparency/Responsibility
– Achieving real benefits, not just data
What Needs to Happen to
Improve Chances of Success?
• Full engage communities in the process
• Evaluate past efforts (learn from our mistakes)
• Investigate available technologies
• Learn from other states and agencies
• Learn from academic partners
Next Steps for New Jersey?
• Look for opportunities
– Use grants to start getting answers
• Understand the limitations
– Build appropriate resources– Build appropriate resources
• Equipment
• Staff
• Institutionalize program
Upcoming Projects in New
JerseyJersey
Project 1
“Black Carbon Study”• Researchers will develop educational
module that can be used again and again
• Must be in “overburdened” communities
• NJDEP issued RFP through Treasury• NJDEP issued RFP through Treasury
• Proposals have been received and are being evaluated
Project 2Student Air Monitoring Project Lesson in Elizabeth (SAMPLE)
- NJDEP contracts with UMDNJ for technical support
• Work with Future City Inc. (FCI) of Elizabeth-
community group help implement project
• Recruit about 20-25 students
• ~ 1 day/month from Sept 2012- April 2013
• Teach air pollution and human health, diesel
sources in community
• Students will monitor for black carbon 2-3 days
• Near and far from roadways
• Present at FCI’s Environmental Day April 2013
Project 3
“Citizen Science”• NJDEP Identified 5 communities
– Emissions inventory
– NATA risk estimates
– Viable community group with infrastructure and staff
• Monitor for six months over 1-year period
– 24 hr. volatile organic compounds samples
– Same 1 in 6 day as other air toxics monitoring locations around state
– Compare annual average to other locations
– Estimate risk
– Help to put grab (or 1 hr.) samples taken by citizens into context and for QA/QC
Project 3
“Citizen Science” (cont.)• Citizens will take grab samples
– Citizens will determine where & when they want to take samples with appropriate QA/QC samples
– Possibly add passive badges for other pollutants
Goals for New Community
Monitoring Projects
- The NJDEP’s overall goal is to find the best way to address community concerns about air quality.
- Specific aims:� test different methods for community air
toxics monitoring
� to test viability of having citizens take air samples
� test different ways of implementing project(s)
� determine how to use data effectively