The Torrance Air
Quality Monitoring Project, sponsored by the South Coast Air Quality
Management District (AQMD) is officially launching this month.
The Torrance Air project,
sponsored by South Coast AQMD, is now monitoring a range of air pollutants
across the city of Torrance.
Information about local air
quality will soon be available to residents online!
What
information will be available on the Torrance Air website?
The website will soon be providing public, near-real time air
quality information gathered from three community monitoring sites throughout
the city of Torrance.
These sites are located at:
- North Torrance High
School
- West Torrance High
School
- Elm Avenue: 1001 Elm Avenue
- A fourth community
monitoring site located at Guenser Park is also planned for future
installation.
How can you help spread the
word?
- Share the Torrance Air
website (www.torranceair.org), with
your family and friends, where they can enter an email address and be updated
when the website officially launches.
What information about
Torrance Air can you expect to start seeing?
- Printed inserts in your
utility bill, explaining the details of the project
- Digital billboards, at City
Hall and Wilson Park, announcing the launch of the project
- Ads in Torrance Seasons
quarterly magazines
- Banner images on the City of Torrance’s homepage
- Social images shared on the
City of Torrance’s Facebook,
Twitter, and Instagram
- Announcements on the local
Torrance TV channel
- Articles and media mentions
in local news outlets
What’s next?
- Outreach materials will be distributed to local residents directly, as well as through the Torrance library, City Council, and city representatives.
- The air quality monitoring
devices located on the Torrance Refinery’s north fenceline will soon be
operational and also collecting air quality data, which will be displayed on the
Torrance Air site
- Small, portable sensors
will be distributed to Torrance residents to help measure concentrations of
particulate matter throughout the community
Questions?
- For questions about the air
quality monitors, please contact Tami Lavezzo at Sonoma Technologies at Tami@sonomatech.com
- For questions/feedback about the community outreach plan, please contact Celeste Griffy at GNA at Celeste.Griffy@gladstein.org
John Bailey, President
Southeast Torrance Homeowners’ Association, Inc.
(SETHA)
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