TCEQ Installs New Air Monitor in Flower Mound
TCEQ Installs New Air Monitor in Flower Mound
Monday, Nov. 22, 2010
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality today announced that results from a new state-of-the-art air monitor, installed in the Flower Mound area, are now available online. The auto-GC (gas chromatograph) monitor, installed by the TCEQ, will provide citizens with near real-time air quality readings, and hourly averages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Testing for 46 different volatile organic compounds, including benzene, the monitor will also provide total non-methane VOC concentrations and meteorological data, which are important in analyzing air quality readings.
“The installation of this latest monitor shows that the Barnett Shale continues to be a priority to our agency,” said TCEQ Executive Director, Mark Vickery. “And, we aren’t done – we are also evaluating other locations in the region for additional monitors.”
“As Chairman of the Senate Health & Human Services Committee and a Flower Mound resident whose grandchildren breathe our local air, I strongly supported the placement of an emissions monitoring station in southern Denton County,” said Senator Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound. “This data will … READ MORE.
