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Monitoring the air that you breathe
The Fort Air Partnership is an independent, non-profit organization that monitors and reports on the air people breathe in the Fort airshed, a 4,500 sq. km. region northeast of Edmonton. We measure against the ambient air quality standards set by Alberta Environment using an appropriate mix of eight continuous and 57 passive monitoring stations. Our latest regional network system improvement was the introduction of a monitoring station in the heart of Bruderheim. Read the complete story. Monitoring results in real time are available continuously to local residents, government and industry. During 2009, the air quality index in our community was rated on average as good between 91% and over 96% of the time. ‘Good’ is the best possible rating. In addition to our website, our data is sent to:
To ensure data quality, we employ monitoring experts from AGAT Laboratories and have equipment that is tested daily, calibrated monthly and audited annually. The latest audit report was very good with a 90% approval rating. Recommendations from this audit report adjustments have been implemented. We welcome public input and involvement in Fort Air Partnership. Contact us to learn more. Our Making it Clear factsheet series explains the air monitoring and reporting system, emission sources and provincial regulations in more detail: "Air Quality" fact sheet (1MB) "How Is Air Quality Monitored?" fact sheet (5MB) "Emissions" fact sheet (1.43 MB) "Air Quality Dispersion Models" fact sheet ( 2.1 MB) "Environmental Cumulative Effects Management" fact sheet (2.1 MB) "Regulating Air Quality In Alberta" fact sheet (2.9 MB) |
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