2-hour workshop planned for EHP
Monitoring air quality will be the focus of a two-hour workshop scheduled for 5 p.m. Sept. 10 at 1720 Washington Road, Washington, for officials from municipalities in the eastern half of Washington County.
The workshop will be presented by Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project and hosted by Shawnee Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America. Featured will be the Speck air monitor developed at the Carnegie University CREATE Lab, which also designed the CATTFish water monitor currently in use in Washington and Greene counties by Washington County Watershed Alliance.
The project’s air exposure model will be explained to municipal officers and staff so they can better respond to air-quality concerns of their residents. Print material will be provided for municipal offices to offer residents, and arrangements may be made for a two- to four-week monitoring of air quality at a municipality’s building if the location is suitable.
The work session will last until 7 p.m. with refreshments provided by Izaak Walton League at the BenchMark Financial Network office in the former Jay Stock Studio. Please note one enters the site by turning from Route 19 onto Conklin Road. Municipal officers are asked to respond by emailing iwla.wc.pa@gmail.com or by phone to chapter secretary Donna Riggle at 724-484-7537. Participants may also contact Environmental Health Project at 724-260-5504 or RGrode@environmentalhealthproject.org or visit the website at www.environmentalhealthproject.org for information.