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CDPHE Air Monitoring
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Summary and Background Information:
Industrial areas geographically centered in North Denver and Commerce City are home to the Suncor Refinery, the Cherokee Generating Station, Denver’s major water treatment facility, several highly congested highways, in addition to a multitude of additional industrial facilities. These areas also have a high interface between residential and industrial land uses, which have been historically under-represented in terms of air quality monitoring, due, in part, to the challenges in monitoring in a highly multi-jurisdictional area. Residents living in this area are subject to disproportionate health and environmental inequities compared to other Front Range communities. In order to better understand community health and exposure as well as to better characterize industrial and mobile sources of emissions in this area, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) is interested in expanding air monitoring efforts in the North Denver/Commerce City area.
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CDPHE proposes a collaborative effort involving the Cities of Denver and Commerce City, Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), Adams County and the Tri-County Health Department with the goal of establishing an ongoing air quality monitoring presence in the area. The goal is to leverage a shared data platform to present this data and findings to the public. CDPHE would like to kick off these efforts immediately with screening-level Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) sensor devices placed in Denver, Commerce City and at sites in Adams County. These sensors can identify the presence of pollution and the need for further study.
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While developing this collaborative effort, CDPHE has identified an opportunity to deploy the Colorado Air Monitoring Mobile Laboratory which is capable of detail evaluation of the presence of VOCs and Criteria Pollutants as well as serving as a base for specialized collections for other Air Toxi...
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