AQ Advisory in Effect for Vanderhoof
Vanderhoof, B.C.- The Ministry of the Environment and Northern Health advise there is an air quality advisory in effect for Vanderhoof.
The concentration of fine particulates (PM2.5) is expected to persist until there is a change in the weather.
While concentrations have been fluctuating, they remain above advisory levels.
Latest PM2.5 measurements at the Vanderhoof Courthouse station indicate an hourly average of 42.8 micrograms per cubic metre. The average for the past 24 hours is 29.5 micrograms per cubic metre, which exceeds the provincial air quality objective of 25 micrograms per cubic metre
Sources of fine particulates contributing to this air quality episode include wood smoke (wood stoves and/or open burning), emissions from industry as well as transportation (such as automobiles, trucks and rail traffic).
Comments
That’s what happens when you build a pellet plant in the middle of town.
Sometimes that’s what happens when industry is shut down and people are home for the holidays burning wood.
Probably a whole lot cleaner than it used to be when the mill just used the beehive to get rid of waste instead of building the pellet plant.
The beehive burnt most of the hog into oblivion at the source. Now it is shipped next door and exposed to the atmosphere in greater numbers.
3 Mills West of Vanderhoof, Wind mainly from the West
Remember Quesnel in the 60th and 70th and no one checked the Air then!
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