Tribal Air Quality Collaborative EffortsTribal Air Quality Collaborative Efforts

OverviewOverview

Ak-Chin Indian Community (ACIC)

Air Quality Program

Tribal Collaboration

Ak-Chin Indian CommunityAk-Chin Indian Community

Ak-Chin Indian CommunityAk-Chin Indian Community

Ak-Chin is an O’Odham word translated to mean “place where the wash loses itself into the sand or ground”

Located approximately 40 miles south of Phoenix in Pinal County

Comprised of 22,140 acres 15,000 acres are dedicated to agriculture Extremely arid Sonoran Desert Climate

Ak-Chin Air Quality ProgramAk-Chin Air Quality Program

Installed the monitoring station in February 2007

U.S. EPA funded since October 2007 Original Emissions Inventory was conducted

2004, revised in 2007 and currently under revision

Monitor for PM10 and Ozone

Reasons for CollaborationReasons for Collaboration Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) is the

closest neighboring tribe, approx. 26 miles Both GRIC and ACIC face the same air

issues and impacts (agriculture, desert, encroachment, etc.)

Both GRIC and ACIC have similar air monitoring equipment

GRIC is a mature air quality program and ACIC can learn from their accomplishments

Both GRIC and ACIC have similar impacted populations (children, adults and elderly)

Collaborative EffortsCollaborative Efforts

Reviewing Data LoggerReviewing Data Logger

Cleaning PM-10 InletCleaning PM-10 Inlet

Assembling and Collaborating Dust Trak

Assembling and Collaborating Dust Trak

Servicing ACIC Air Monitoring StationServicing ACIC Air Monitoring Station

Questions

Questions

Contact Information:Contact Information:Ralph “Manny” Gomez

Air Quality Specialist

Environmental Protection Department

Phone: (520) 568-1162

E-mail: rgomez@ak-chin.nsn.us