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Coastal Watch details expanded air monitors; nonprofit asks county to back baseline health study
Summary
Presenters said San Patricio County’s monitoring network is expanding and warned EPA design values show the county out of attainment under a stricter PM2.5 standard; Coastal Watch and the Texas Health Institute asked the court to partner on a phased health study beginning next year.
Peyton Campbell, associate science coordinator for the Coastal Watch Association, told the San Patricio County Commissioners Court on Dec. 22 that the nonprofit’s air-monitoring network now includes nine community monitors (seven in San Patricio County) and that the group has purchased its first regulatory-grade monitor, scheduled to begin collecting data that afternoon. "As of right now... the TCEQ does not have any regulatory monitors in San Patricio County," Campbell said.
Campbell said the monitors measure ozone, nitrogen…
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