In order to determine air quality in Carson, a company called Aclima will be installing sensors during the summer of 2018 to study pollution levels.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has created a nationwide network of stations that monitor air quality, and relies on this system to determine if the quality of the air in a given location is meeting federal standards. The EPA sensors are stationary, and are located in cities, where they measure photochemical pollutants, particulates, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and carbon monoxide. The EPA network is effective, but does not pinpoint air quality in a small, localized area.
Aclima has placed mobile sensors on Google's Street View cars, and this mobile platform provides information about street-level air quality.
Aclima is now installing a network of air pollution monitors in schools, businesses, and private residences in Wilmington and Carson. It plans to install 36 monitors and 15 weather stations; early next year it will launch a website where residents can interact with Aclima and learn about air quality. The company would like to install monitors outside 50 volunteers' houses, and also needs another eight people who do not have a monitor to access the website when it is active. Residents can reach Aclima at carson-wilmington@aclima.io.
Projects like this need participants, so officials might consider working with a flyer printing company to create a mailer about the effort.
