Manitoba adds mobile air quality monitoring station
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IN the wake of a summer marred by forest fire smoke, Manitoba has acquired a mobile monitoring station to check outdoor air quality.
The $500,000 vehicle can go anywhere with road access to determine and address the nature of suspected air quality concerns such as forest fires, smoke from stubble burning and environmental emergencies, the province said Tuesday.
The mobile monitoring unit has real-time sampling capabilities to identify potential pollutants such as sulphur dioxide, hydrogen sulphide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, particulate matter and ozone.
The equipment can collect samples of the pollutants for laboratory analysis and can measure pollutant data.
Its data will provide a snapshot of what is occurring in a community at a given time, the province said.
In Manitoba, smoke from wildfires after successive long, hot, dry seasons resulted in air quality alerts being issued in July and earlier this month.
The mobile station, to be ready for deployment this fall, allows for quick incident response and flexibility to quickly identify potential hazards and mitigate impacts, the province said.
It’s also going to be used to support regulatory compliance and auditing activities to increase public confidence in provincial environmental air-monitoring activities, the government said in a news release.
The custom-built vehicle was made in Manitoba, a government spokesman said.
It is equipped with the same monitoring equipment as the province’s permanent air quality monitoring stations.