Monitoring Particulate Matter
in the World Trade Center Disaster Zone

Rupprecht & Patashnick has worked together with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC) to initiate air monitoring in the vicinity of the World Trade Center disaster zone.

The concentration of ambient particulate matter is being monitored continuously using TEOM monitors from R&P at sites in downtown New York in a project being funded by the USEPA and operated by NYDEC. The company has provided logistical support in setting up the new air monitoring sites.

The monitors will provide the agencies with information concerning the exposure of various sites in New York City to airborne particles emanating from the World Trade Center site. The new monitoring sites augment other New York State-operated air monitoring stations that already exist in the New York City area.

The photos on this page show some scenes in the vicinity of the World Trade Center where air quality is being monitored.

- Sep 01 -

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