What is the Ambient Air Monitoring and Reporting Plan?
The air quality monitoring and reporting plan will monitor a group of pollutants from three reporting stations along the corridor to confirm the current levels as outlined in the environmental assessment, and to monitor changes as service levels increase in the corridor. Typically, the calculations in an environmental assessment are based on existing air quality monitoring stations. The additional three air quality monitoring stations will provide additional background data on existing conditions – and will be used as a check against assumptions in the environmental assessment. It also checks against the calculated effects of additional traffic on the rail line.
