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Erie council narrows air-quality monitoring program, preallocates $300,000 for 2026; supplemental for 2025 to follow
Summary
After four years of local monitoring and rising vendor costs, Erie's council voted unanimously to preserve a Boulder Air regional station and a reduced triggered-canister network within a $300,000 2026 allocation and requested a modest supplemental for 2025.
Erie Town Council voted unanimously on May 20 to preserve a reduced air-quality monitoring program that keeps a Boulder Air regulatory-grade station at the Erie Community Center and a smaller triggered-canister network for neighborhood and oil-and-gas pad monitoring, with a plan to preallocate about $300,000 for the 2026 budget and to return a supplemental appropriation for 2025 to cover immediate shortfalls.
Background: Town staff and contractors described a monitoring network launched in 2021 that combines a regulatory-grade Boulder Air station (continuous measurements of methane, ozone, many VOCs and PM) with Ajax Analytics' triggered canister stations (10 smaller sites moved as necessary near pads, roadways and the landfill). Presenters told council that the program produced a rich multi-year dataset used in research and legislative…
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