Aug 26, 2014 2 min read

Information on monitoring air quality will be the focus of a two-hour workshop session Thursday at the Buffalo Township Municipal Building for municipalities in the western half of Washington County. The workshop will be presented by the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project and hosted by the Buffalo Creek Watershed Association.

Featured will be the Speck air monitor developed locally at the Carnegie University CREATE Lab, which also designed the CATTFish water monitor currently in use in Washington and Greene counties by the Washington County Watershed Alliance. The EHP air exposure model will be explained to municipal officers and staff, so they can better respond to the air quality concerns of their residents. Print material will be provided for township offices to offer residents, and arrangements may be made for a two- to four-week monitoring of air quality at the municipality’s building if the location is suitable.

The work session will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. with refreshments provided. The address is 400 Buffalo Center Lane, Washington, just off the Taylorstown exit of Interstate 70. Another workshop will be held in mid-September for the municipalities in the eastern half of the county hosted by the Izaak Walton League of America, Washington County Chapter.

For more information email buffalocreekwa@gmail.com or phone 724-484-7537. You may also contact the EHP at 724-260-5504 or RGrode@environmentalhealthproject.org for information prior to the work session. Please visit the EHP website www.environmentalhealthproject.org