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Air monitoring station comes to Caldwell County
Thursday, June 06, 2013
The Capital Area Council of Governments has launched its first air quality monitoring station in Caldwell County.
The new addition, installed May 28 at the Lockhart police and EMS station, should help improve understanding of air quality upwind of Austin on high-ozone days when winds come out of the south and southeast and will provide a more complete picture of ozone exposure within the five-county Austin- Round Rock metropolitan statistical area.
CAPCOG’s network of ozone monitors throughout the region includes six permanent stations: two in Williamson County, two in Hays County, one in Bastrop County and another in Fayette County. Those stations supplement the two regulatory ozone monitors in Travis County operated by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and help characterize ozone transport throughout the region.
Data from CAPCOG’s six existing monitoring stations are reported to TCEQ’s website. Though data from the Lockhart station won't be reported to the state’s site, it will be available monthly upon request.
> See TCEQ's reporting page for ozone averages in selected metro areas
> Learn more about CAPCOG's Air Quality Program
