Transcript Fauci_NezPerceAirTox_w_notes.ppt

Nez Perce Tribe
Air Quality Program
Air Toxics Monitoring
Community-Scale Air Toxics Study
2006-2007
Toxics Monitoring Around a Kraft Pulp
and Paper Mill in Lewiston, Idaho
http://www.nezperce.org/Official/Air%20Quality/Airtoxics/airtoxics.htm
Partners
Responsibility
Nez Perce Tribe, Environmental Restoration
and Waste Management Division
Air Quality Program
Administer project
Operate reservation sampling sites
Idaho Department of Environmental Quality,
Lewiston Office and Boise Modeling Group
Operate off-reservation sampling
sites and Modeling
Washington State University, Laboratory for
Atmospheric Research (Pullman, WA)
Modeling
RJ Lee Group, Inc., Center for Laboratory
Sciences (Pasco, WA)
Sample analysis
Potlatch Corporation Idaho Pulp and
Paperboard
Meteorological data from facility
tower and emissions data
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 10
Funding, Guidance
Sampling locations
24 h samples; EPA’s one in six day sampling schedule; 5/1/2006-4/30/2007
Particulate metals
Volatile Organic Compounds
Carbonyls
PM10 Hi-Vol.
Quartz microfiber filters
EPA method IO-3.5
ATEC 2200 sampler
canisters
EPA method TO-15
ATEC 2200 sampler
DNPH cartridges
EPA method TO-11A
Arsenic, beryllium, cadmium,
chromium, lead, manganese,
nickel
Benzene, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform,
1,3-butadiene, 1,2-dichloropropane,
methylene chloride, tetrachloroethylene,
trichlororethylene, vinyl chloride
Formaldehyde,
Acetaldehyde
Nez Perce County Demographic
Comparison
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0.9
US counties
Counties with metals measurements
Counties with VOC measurements
Nez Perce County
Expect lower
concentrations
than in other U.S.
data.
Nez Perce County
0.8
Fraction of counties
0.7
0.6
Median county population
The subsets of
counties with metals or
VOC measurements
have median
populations that are at
the upper end of the
distribution compared
to all US counties.
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0.3 26th percentile
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1,000
10,000
100,000
Population
1,000,000
10,000,000
Potential Concern
>50% detects exceed the chronic screening threshold
Formaldehyde
Benzene
Tetrachloroethylene
Arsenic
Acetaldehyde
Carbon tetrachloride
1,3-Butadiene
Manganese
Chronic Inhalation Cancer Risk
Comparison
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30-year chronic cancer risk screening
values from EPA Region 3 and highest
annual mean concentrations from any site in
the Lewiston study were used to generate
estimated risk numbers.
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Chronic cancer risk (per million)
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Formaldehyde
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Lapwai
Hatwai
ITD
Sunset
LSOB
ppbV
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4/28/2006
7/12/2006
9/25/2006
12/9/2006
Date
2/22/2007
5/8/2007
Regional Comparison
La Grande, OR May 2006-April 2007 rural NATTS site
Longview, WA May 2004-May 2005 Pulp & paper, urban setting
Seattle, WA 2005
Spokane, WA 2005
Carbonyls
concentration, ppbV
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Acetaldehyde
4
Formaldehyde
3
2
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Lewiston
La Grande
Longview
Seattle
Spokane
ATSDR health consultation
School Air Toxics Study
2009
Sonic
anemometer
PM10 sampler
Carbonyl sampler
Formaldehyde
15
2006/7
2009
ppbv
10
5
0
24-Mar
13-May
2-Jul
21-Aug
10-Oct
29-Nov
18-Jan
9-Mar
28-Apr
17-Jun
FaST Program
2011
• DOE funded
• University
professor and 2
students
• PTR-MS – 1
minute resolution
of air toxics
VOC species to be measured by PTR-MS
Species
Notes
Ion (m/z)
Oxygenated species
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formaldehyde
direct emissions / photoproduct
33
methanol
solvents
45
acetaldehyde
direct emission / photochemical product
59
acetone / propanal
solvents
73
2-btuanone / butanal
solvents
Aromatic compounds
79
benzene
air toxic / vehicle emissions
93
toluene
vehicle emissions
105
styrene
industrial
107
Sum of C2-alkylbenzenes (C8H10)
vehicle emissions
121
Sum of C3- alkylbenzenes (C9H12)
vehicle emissions
135
Sum of C4-alkylbenzenes (C10H14)
vehicle emissions
Biogenic emissions
69
isoprene (1)
biogenic emission
71
MVK + MACR(2)
isoprene photoproducts
137
monoterpenes
biogenic emission
54
acrylonitrile
air toxic: plastics industry
42
acetonitrile
CH3CN : wood smoke tracer
Others
(1) subject to positive interferences from other hydrocarbons at low isoprene mixing ratios (< 100 pptv)
(2) methylvinyl ketone + methacrolein
Wet Mercury Monitoring
Mercury Deposition Network Sites
Nez Perce Tribe
Air Quality Program
[email protected]
(208) 843-7375
www.nezperce.org/Official/Air%20Quality/airquality.htm
Prepared for National Tribal Forum
June 15, 2011 in Spokane, WA
Presented by Mary Fauci