South Bronx Deploys Its First-Ever Community Owned and Operated Air Quality Monitoring Network in Response to Persistent Air Pollution
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By: Quant AQ
QuantAQ's air quality sensors will be deployed across various high-pollution sites (power plants, large-scale warehouses with high-volume diesel truck traffic, waste facilities, and others) as well as a local greenspace and pedestrianized plaza. Air quality data will be made available to the public and will show minute-by-minute changes in the concentration of particulate matter (PM) and harmful gas pollutants (including ozone, nitric oxide, and nitrogen dioxide). When this data is in place, policy makers will be able to analyze positive and negative impacts of local decisions.
"Residents of Mott Haven and Port Morris are exposed to pollution at rates unseen in other parts of New York," says Arif Ullah, Executive Director of South Bronx Unite. "As a result, we have some of the highest childhood asthma rates in the country, and until today we've lacked comprehensive data to back up what we already know: Air pollution is affecting every aspect of our community's health and well-being, and it's getting worse, not better."
