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Students pitch community air sensors to monitor Parleys Canyon mine emissions
Summary
Students and staff from Promise Teen Tech Center presented 'The Smog Busters' project proposing low-cost local air sensors (a drone, tripod box and wearable) to give neighbors data where the nearest official monitor is 6.5 miles away and to support community advocacy.
At the start of the meeting a Promise Teen Tech Center group presented a project called 'The Smog Busters' that aims to equip neighbors with more local air-quality data near Parleys Canyon, where students said a mine is operating and planning expansion.
Presentation slides and spoken notes (packet materials list Mickaela Allison as a contact) describe hardware options — a tripod-mounted box, a drone, and a wearable watch — under the project name 'The Smoginator.' Presenters emphasized that "the nearest air quality sensor is 6.5 miles away," making it hard to assess local impacts, and proposed community-deployable detectors to empower residents to collect and present data to city officials.
The students framed the effort as a sustainable, accessible approach that would document conditions residents say are causing health concerns such as asthma triggers. The presentation included personal vignettes and a stated goal to gather measurable, local air-quality information that neighbors could use when engaging the city on mining impacts.
The council packet records the presentation materials and lists Promise Teen Tech Center as the presenter; the transcript contains slides and speaker names but does not record a council motion or formal action on the presentation.
