Weld County signs data-use agreement to share air-monitoring data with state dashboard

Weld County authorized the chair to sign a data-use agreement allowing the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to host and display real-time air-quality data from three county monitoring stations.

Jason Cheshire of the Weld County Health Department said CDPHE is building a dashboard to host air-monitoring data for multiple counties and that the county has operated three monitoring stations for many years. “We would love for that data to be utilized in decision making rather than educated guesses from models,” Cheshire said, recommending the board approve participation. Commissioners approved contract ID 9841 by voice vote.

Cheshire said the CDPHE dashboard is under development and staff had no display to show at the meeting; the data-use agreement is an initial step to make the county's monitoring data available on the state-hosted site. No timeline for the dashboard's public launch was given in the hearing.