Monday is an ozone alert day

[patric]

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

The eight hour average got up to 64 parts per billion. We survived.

The Whirled said otherwise.

Strike two.

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by patric

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

The eight hour average got up to 64 parts per billion. We survived.

The Whirled said otherwise.

Strike two.

The World was wrong on this one.  I think they believe that the 1 hour standard is still being used.  Hell, even the ozonealert website said we were not in exceedence yesterday.

[RecycleMichael]

It was all very odd.

The monitor for north Tulsa began to malfunction yesterday so the state DEQ brought out a new monitor yesterday around 3pm.

The old monitor read in the 70s (consistent with the other area monitors) and suddenly the new monitor had readings well over a hundred. That caused the north monitor to have levels twenty per cent higher than the others. The eight hour average turned out to be 79 and the other monitors were in the low sixties.

I will scream conspiracy or poor training if this reading makes us fail. Having a new monitor being brought out in the middle of the afternoon and being so different raises red flags to me.

Unfortunately, it probably won't matter because the weather forecast calls for lots of problem days in August. We are still in compliance. That makes the new average at two monitors 75 parts per billion. 76 part per billion is failure.

One part per billion. That is how close we are to failing. Please, everyone do their part.