The Texas A&M Transportation Institute and The Nature Conservancy in Texas are partnering with the city of Dallas to put air quality monitors in Dallas neighborhoods. Locations like Exline Recreation Center will be targeted, with a total of nine monitors to be installed.
Locations for the monitors were chosen by a review of public health data concerning the pervasiveness of childhood asthma, current Safe-Route-to-School program areas, and economic and racial demographics.
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The air quality monitoring program is part of Breathe Easy Dallas, a project that started in 2017. The project’s principal objective is to improve the respiratory health of those in high-risk populations.
Environmental Compliance & Sustainability assistant director Susan Alvarez said in a release:
"This project will give us better insight on neighborhood-level air quality, while also advancing the state of the science related to this equipment."
Alvarez explained that monitors are calibrated to the specifications of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the monitors of which are used to measure Dallas’s general air quality.
Kathy Jack, the Dallas Healthy Cities Program Directory at The Natural Conservancy in Texas, explained the data collected will be shared with local community and health stakeholders.