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2023 Community Health asks for Seattle/King County Department of Health
FAA Reauthorization 2023: Community Use Of Airport Land
Like many agencies of the Federal Government, the law giving life to the FAA needs to be reauthorized periodically. The last bill was in 2018 and the current version will be passed this year. A reauthorization bill is something of a misnomer. The first page reauthorizes the agency; the remaining hundreds and hundreds of pages
Aviation Town Hall Mount Rainier High School 06/10/2023
I attended this event hosted by Congressman Adam Smith, State Senator Karen Keiser, Representative Tina Orwall, Port Commissioner Hamdi Mohamed. I counted about 50 people in attendance. It provided a short overview of the current state of legislation at the Federal, State and Port level on aviation issues and then moved into about a 90
Anatomy of an air quality monitoring network
This is a fixed site air quality monitoring (AQM) station. If your first reaction was, “So what?”, skip to the bottom, we’ll wait. You can view this as a stand-alone device, or you can view it as one node in a network of AQMs, which work together to allow for researchers to capture a much
CACC Finale 06/09/2023
CACC Final Meeting Presentation June 9 2023 CACC Final Meeting Transcript
Wrangling over the “Ramboll Report”
The are two very different documents we will refer to back and forth in this article. To (try to) avoid confusion, we will refer to the Community Health and Airport Operations Related Pollution Report as ‘the KCDOH Study’ (because that is how the Port of Seattle referred to it.) We will refer to the summary
No Data, No Problem
We wrote an article called Anatomy of An Air Quality Monitoring Network. This article explains why building that system is so important to the future of Sea-Tac Airport Communities. It also describes a far more generalized problem in obtaining environmental mitigation. History In the world of engineering there is an expression: “No data, no problem.”
Four nodes in 400 words
What we have now This is one portion of the current Puget Sound Clean Air Agency air quality monitoring network map. The stars belong to PSCAA. The dots are rando PurpleAirs that belong to members of the public, they are irrelevant to this discussion. Airport Scroll down on that map to the airport. Notice something