Do you care about your air? A case study of EPA’s community co-designed air monitoring network in the Latrobe Valley

Hazelwood mine fire

Impacts and improvements

Community decisions

Remit: What is the best way to monitor the air quality in the Latrobe Valley, with the resources EPA has allocated until 2020?

The co-design panel

The process

A co-designed approach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChnrYlAQxgQ

What the community designed

The Latrobe Valley networkLocation New Monitoring Devices Location Existing Monitoring Devices

Mount Tassie Air quality camera Churchill PM2.5, Smoke sensor

Boolarra South Smoke sensor Moe PM2.5

Rosedale PM2.5 and Smoke sensorMorwell

East

PM2.5, PM10, CO, SO2, Visibility

Reduction

Traralgon EastSmoke, SO2, CO, O3 and

NO2 sensors

Morwell

South

PM2.5, CO, NO2, O3, SO2, Visibility

Reduction

Flynns CreekSmoke, SO2 and CO

sensorsTraralgon

PM2.5, CO, NO2,O3, PM10, SO2,

Visibility reduction

Glengarry Smoke sensor

Tyers SO2 sensor

Hernes Oak Air quality camera LocationIndustry Owned Monitoring

Devices

Jeeralang Junction SO2 sensorJeeralang

HillSO2, NO, NO2, NOx, O3, PM10

NewboroughSO2, CO, O3 and NO2

Sensors

Rosedale

South

SO2, NO, NO2, NOx, O3, PM10,

Visibility reduction

Newborough South PM2.5 and SO2 Sensor

Traralgon South Smoke Sensor

Tyers NorthSmoke Sensor and air

quality camera

Flynn Smoke Sensor

Hazelwood Smoke Sensor

Willow Grove Smoke Sensor

Yallourn North Smoke Sensor

Boolarra Smoke Sensor

Yinnar PM10 and Smoke Sensor

Smoke sensors are installed

Complications along the way

Feedback: there are things we don’t know. Can we budget for that?

What’s next

Thank you