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Goal: Identify characteristic pollutant mixtures within communities impacted by unique pollutant sources including non-roadway transportation sources, point emission sources and localized burn events. Approach: Develop a mobile air quality monitoring infrastructure and deployment strategy allowing for the long-term gathering of information on pollutant mixtures and trends impacting Washington communities. This mobile air quality monitoring is not intended to provide regulatory data. Mobile monitoring has been shown to effectively represent annual concentrations of air pollutant when sampling design is balanced over the course of a year. Mobile monitoring has also been demonstrated to allow for discrimination of distinct pollutant sources including roadway traffic, non-roadway transportation sources and local point sources. A mobile sampling platform has the advantage of spatial flexibility, rapid response to ambient air quality concerns and ability to capture a range of pollutants including novel measures not currently captured by the ambient air quality monitoring. Scope: This budget request includes the two components. The first, includes the hardware required to acquire and custom assemble 2 mobile monitoring platforms. The ability to simultaneously sample at 2 locations is critical to interpreting mobile monitoring data and spatial extent of air pollution impacts. The second, the development and testing of a mobile monitoring sampling protocol developed by the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington in partnership with local, State and Federal stakeholders. Outputs: The output of this project will include • 2 fully equipped mobile monitoring platforms, ready for installation in commercially available hybrid SUV vehicles.…

Edmund Seto, Elena Austin, Jianbang Xiang, Jeffry Shirai, Tim Gould, Timothy Larson Washington Environmental Health Disparities Map https://fortress.wa.gov/doh/wtn/WTNIBL/ This map ranks areas in red that are more impacted by cumulative environmental hazards. Many parts of Beacon Hill and other South King County communities have rankings in the red, and are impacted by cumulative hazards. NOISE Sea-Tac Airport Noise Impacts http://www.airportsites.net/SEA-Part150/documents/final/e-Chapter-3_Noise%20Analysis.pdf DNL 65 dBA Noise exposures are associated with human health effects > Cardiovascular effects > Sleep disturbance > Annoyance > Impaired children’s learning FAA 14 CFR Part 150 Analysis (2013) for Sea-Tac includes: > A model of noise contours attributable to flights > Measured noise, only looking at levels >60 dB that are >3 secs, correlated with flights > A 65 dB noise contour is considered a threshold for incompatible residential land use without mitigation. > But this 65 dB threshold is supposed to be for “cumulative noise” – noise from all sources. http://www.airportsites.net/SEA-Part150/documents/final/e-Chapter-3_Noise%20Analysis.pdf Beacon Hill Seattle Noise Study Video of noise from flyover Particulate Air Pollution micron is 1000 nanometers. So a UFP is <0.1 microns PM2.5 Measurements at Seattle Beacon Hill Site by Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Federal standard primary and secondary 24 hr μg/m3 98th percentile, averaged over 3 years primary 1 year 12.0 μg/m3 annual mean, averaged over 3 years Despite not exceeding standard, still ranks 10 on the Environmental Health Disparities Map, indicating that historic PM levels in this area are among the highest concentrations observed in the state. PM2.5 Measurements at Seattle Beacon…

The Mobile ObserVations of Ultrafine Particles (MOV-UP) study was a two-year project funded by the State of Washington to study air quality impacts of air traffic for communities located near and below the flight paths of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The University of Washington research team that led the study coordinated with local governments and solicited