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Pitkin County launches year-long airport air-quality monitoring, aims to inform emission-reduction plan
Summary
County and Mead & Hunt will install 11 air-quality monitors around Aspen/Pitkin County Airport and run a 365-day measurement program to feed a modeling-informed emission reduction action plan aligned with prior community goals.
Pitkin County and consultants from Mead & Hunt told county commissioners and the Airport Advisory Board on Jan. 13 that 11 air-quality monitors were being installed at and near the Aspen/Pitkin County Airport and that measurements would run for one full year to support a data-driven emission-reduction action plan.
Mead & Hunt presenters including Celeste Vandiventer and Brad Rolfe described the program as a combination of modeling and on-the-ground monitoring. Modeling will generate an emissions inventory and dispersion scenarios; monitoring will collect point-in-time concentrations at reference stations (two robust stations at runway ends) and nine solar-powered screening stations. An additional downtown monitor will provide external…
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