Do-It-Yourself Air Quality Monitoring
You are welcome to come and see how this is done.
5:23 PM EDT on July 17, 2006
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
9 am to 3 pm
Vesey & Church Streets, Manhattan, near church graveyard
WHAT: PM 2.5 air monitoring
WHO: John Culpepper of Lower Washington Heights Neighborhood Association
WHERE: Vesey & Church Streets, Manhattan near church graveyard.
WHEN: Wed. 19 July 2006, 9 am to 3 pm
PM
2.5 is particulate matter 2.5 microns or smaller, the fine soot that is
so devastating to human health, the particles so small that they lodge
deep in your lungs, which have difficulty removing them.
No reading if it is raining – the rain washes out the particles.
L’WHNA is the first non-governmental entity in NYC to own its own PM 2.5 air monitor.
People in the community requested John Culpepper to come downtown and do a reading.
You are welcome to come and see how this is done.
Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.
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