[Green] Anti-Fracking group: Air pollution in Washington County

[Rebecca Phillips]

I did not think I had clicked "send"--am having computer glitches. The short version of what I have learned is that we do not seem to have good data for the county.


Rebecca


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From: Rebecca Phillips <bennphil at hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 8:43 PM
To: Green Sanctuary List for Environment Issues; heather.cantino at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Green] Anti-Fracking group: Air pollution in Washington County


Heather (and GS folks),


I am trying to dig into the data available online, and there is a conflict between the map in the article you copied and data from the Ohio EPA, which lists Washington County (or at least the air near the two monitors, one on upper Fourth Street and one at the Career Center) as in compliance with regard to PM 2.5 as of 2016-17. The pollutants for which the monitors found us not in compliance were ozone and metals. Here is the link:

http://epa.ohio.gov/Portals/27/ams/sites/A1-SWM_Quickview.pdf


A decade earlier, the Mid-Ohio Valley was a non-attainment area for PM 2.5, but by 2010, we had met the criteria for three consecutive years. A good argument could be made that increased fracking in the region would put us in danger of again being a non-attainment area. The Lung Association's 2018 State of the Air Report says that no monitoring for particle pollution is currently being done. The CDC's Environmental Public Health Tracking Network shows more modeled than monitored data for the county but indicates that PM 2.5 levels have been reduced since the 2005 plan.

https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/DataExplorer/index.html?c=11&i=51&m=-1#/


Given this conflicting information, it would seem we do not have enough data to justify allowing any increase in pollution levels, given that the CDC notes elevated levels of respiratory illness in the county.

Appendix A 2016-2017 Ohio’s Air Monitoring Network Quick ...<http://epa.ohio.gov/Portals/27/ams/sites/A1-SWM_Quickview.pdf>
epa.ohio.gov
AQs # County City Site Name Site Address PM 2.5 FRM 2.5 cont. PM 2.5 SPEC PM 10-2.5 € 10 10 Cont O 3 SO 2 CO NO 2 and/or NO y Pb/Metals Toxics€(VOC) Met€ Other* Appendix A 2016-2017 Ohio’s Air Monitoring Network Quick View, Count and Changes





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