Union Leader: New Hampshire studies air quality

[madrasahs]

After the Bike Week article, there's: http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=40150

New England is "America's Tailpipe"?

Hmmm. Well, all I can add is that I've noticed :look: a cloud of smog at about 10-feet to 25-feet above cold Lake Winnipesaukee on calm days. (I live on a slope).

It's worse on those days when you can't see the mountains. Is this "an inversion" weather problem?

'Curious, too, if the NW prevailing breezes keep Meredith/Moultonborough's air "pure", and Alton Bay's slopes "less-pure". :confused:

[Just Sold]

I find it interesting with the news article and other reports in the past month that there is a renewed effort to study the air over New England. Mercury being one of the pollutants the current administration is trying to loosen limit on thus reversing the Clinton administrations tightening of the regulations.

In the late 70's there was a massive study undertaken on the whole Northeast quarter of the US. It studied Suffer Dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide, Ozone and Particulates (dirt) on a constant basis (365 days a year) at 9 locations and 45 other sites once a quarter for 30 days. All monitoring sites were in rural and not urban locations. The 9 sites actually used EPA equipment loaned to EPRI.

This study was funded by a private foundation, EPRI, and ran for a few years. The project/study name was EPRI/SURE. Sulfate Regional Experiment.

Who is EPRI? It is the Electric Power Reasearch Institute an association funded by power companies. The data collected was valuable but for their association. I have to assume that the data revealed something of what comes form the Ohio River valley and other Mid-West areas.

Based on the data they gathered, the power companies knew what they were sending into the air and to New England.

[Lin]

[QUOTE=Just Sold]IThis study was funded by a private foundation, EPRI, and ran for a few years. The project/study name was EPRI/SURE. Sulfate Regional Experiment.

Who is EPRI? It is the Electric Power Reasearch Institute an association funded by power companies. The data collected was valuable but for their association. I have to assume that the data revealed something of what comes form the Ohio River valley and other Mid-West areas.

QUOTE]

Most likely you are taling about the Electric Power Research Institute.

www.epri.com

I know that in 1991 many of the New England states joined a federal forestry program called Forest Health Monitoring and permenant stations were set up in the various states and are monitored all the time to assess the health of trees, soil, lichens and air quality.

www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/fhm/northeast/ne98.htm

[madrasahs]

I was looking :look: more for a local weather phenomenon several feet above a very cool and windless Lake Winnipesaukee.

Will 4th-of-July smog get "pooled" or "trapped" by Winnipesaukee's cold surface :confused:

[madrasahs]

"... there is a renewed effort to study the air over New England. Mercury being one of the pollutants the current administration is trying to loosen limit on thus reversing the Clinton administrations tightening of the regulations. I have to assume that the data revealed something of what comes from the Ohio River valley and other Mid-West areas. Based on the data they gathered, the power companies knew what they were sending into the air and to New England.

According to today's Citizen article, new data indicate increasing "Bad Air" is coming from India and China -- rapidly-industrializing nations exempted from Kyoto.

To help with New Hampshire's air quality, we may end up donating catalytic converters to China!

http://www.fosters.com/august_2004/08.10.04/news/ap_nh_0810a.asp