Today, we need a little help from our friends, fellow breathers. Specifically, our friends who live in the Hill District area. We need to find four host locations for air quality monitors as part of an EPA-funded project studying emissions from Lindy Paving.
“We are specifically looking for locations in the neighborhoods in the Hill District closest to Lindy Paving like Crawford Roberts, the area around Kennard Park, and Middle Hill,” GASP field technician Julie Stouffer explained. “Not only would you be helping GASP and our community partners, it’s also an awesome opportunity for residents to better understand what’s in the air they and their neighbors are breathing.”
To what end, you may ask?
“We hope that by monitoring and sampling the air around polluters like Lindy will help provide leverage to environmental advocacy efforts and offer an opportunity for communication with the health department about local concerns,” she continued.
Need more info? No problem! Here are some documents for your review:
Julie will also be presenting on the air quality monitoring project at a free program at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Hill District branch. You can get more info on that right here.
Editor’s Note: You can also check out this page for further details. Also: Please feel free to reach out to us at julie@gasp-pgh.org for any other questions you may have!