[CPEO-BIF] Studying the outdoor air in Endicott (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Endicott pollution tests to expand
Probe to add weather station to gauge air quality

BY TOM WILBER
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
February 6, 2005

ENDICOTT -- Meteorologists are the latest addition to a research team 
that includes chemists, geologists, statisticians and architects dealing 
with pollution in the heart of the village.

IBM Corp. plans to build a weather station and a network of 
air-monitoring systems in an area of the village where industrial 
solvents are being vented from beneath more than 430 structures. The 
plan is prompted by concerns that the vents, installed to divert 
subterranean gases from basements, could be adding to outdoor air pollution.

"This network is necessary to really answer the question," said Reggie 
Parker, a regional air engineer with the state Department of 
Environmental Conservation.

The plan, which will be presented to a citizens group in coming weeks, 
calls for six monitoring stations in an area south of the former IBM 
plant on North Street, Parker said. They will be in sheds with antennae 
on top, although Parker could not say late last week how high they would 
reach.

In addition, a weather station will be built at an undetermined spot to 
track wind direction, temperature, barometric pressure and humidity as 
the monitoring stations collect air samples for 24 hours, every six 
days, Parker said. The weather station will also be in a shed.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/today/news/stories/ne020605s146461.shtml


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