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Coachella Valley Air Monitoring Network La Unin Hace La Fuerza Comite Civico del Valle Coachella Valley Air Monitoring Network Proposed Sites of Monitors in the Coachella Valley Air Monitoring Network Desert Mirage High School


  1. Coachella Valley Air Monitoring Network La Unión Hace La Fuerza Comite Civico del Valle

  2. Coachella Valley Air Monitoring Network

  3. Proposed Sites of Monitors in the Coachella Valley Air Monitoring Network • Desert Mirage High School – Thermal • Oasis Elementary School – Thermal • Cesar Chavez Elementary – Coachella • Saul Martinez Elementary – Mecca • Community Member

  4. Coachella Valley Air Monitoring Project • Air monitoring network requested by the community • 5 Particulate matter (PM) monitors where the community wanted to better understand air quality in the Coachella Valley • Project values: – Community participation – Quality data – Sustainability

  5. Community Steering Committee • Javier Aceves, Cabazon Band of Mission Indians • Araceli Beltrán, Thermal • Gerardo Daniels, Mecca • Rita Galindo, Coachella • David Gomez, Mecca • Mariela Magaña, Coachella • Jean Martinez, Coachella • Marisol Peña, Mecca • Manuela Ramirez, Mecca • Maria Rodriguez, North Shore • Olivia Rodriguez, Thermal • Daniel Tirado-Lopez, Torrez Martinez Tribe • Rebecca Zaragoza, Leadership Counsel

  6. Committee’s Role in Project • Share knowledge of air pollution sources in the community • Identify and recruit sites for air monitors • Aid in spreading awareness of the project within the community • Recruit members of the community into taking action to improve air quality

  7. Contaminants

  8. Image courtesy of U.S .EPA Particulate Matter

  9. Particulate Matter Monitor

  10. Monitor Data Flow

  11. Monitoring Flow

  12. IVAN DATA

  13. IVAN Coachella Community Reporting System

  14. Air Quality Alerts

  15. Benefits To Your Community • With these monitors the Coachella Valley, your community, will have better information to guide actions to reduce air pollution and improve student and the surrounding community health. • In particular, vulnerable populations with respiratory problems such as asthma or other known diseases associated with air quality, the community and parents with asthmatic children will be able to make more informed asthma management decisions by having real-time data about air quality in their communities. • By hosting an air monitor, Your school districts will enable the collection of important data and contribute to efforts to improve public health throughout the county.

  16. Comite Civico Del Valle, Inc. 235 Main Street Brawley, CA 92227 P: (760) 351-8761 F: (760) 351-8762

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