Air Quality Advisory Over

Saturday, August 07, 2010 01:00 PM

Prince George, B.C.- The Air Quality Advisory in Prince George that has been in effect because of smoke from wildfires in the Cariboo region, has been cancelled.

The provincial air quality objective for fine particles, PM₁₀, is 50 micrograms per cubic metre, averaged over 24 hours. The 24 hour PM₁₀rolling average was 11 µg/m³ at the Plaza 400 downtown, 22 µg/m³ at BCR and 11 µg/m³ at College Heights at 10 am this morning.

The provincial air quality objective for fine particles, PM_2.5, is 25 micrograms per cubic metre, averaged over 24 hours. The 24 hour PM_2.5rolling average was 8 µg/m³ at the Plaza 400 downtown site and 9 µg/m³ at College Heights at 10 am this morning.

The cancellation of the Air Quality Advisory means free transit rides come to an end at midnight tonight.

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Posted on Saturday, August 07, 2010 01:00 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: hood rich on August 7 2010 2:09 PM

Its Prince George. The air advisory is never over.

Posted by: seamutt on August 7 2010 2:37 PM

How come a forest fire is now called a complex? Some new manager marking his territory you now how.

Posted by: chrislivingdowntown on August 7 2010 4:11 PM

It rained thank gawd

Posted by: gus on August 7 2010 5:10 PM

Here is the way it is described on the MoF web site updated Sautruday morning

Size: 9,500.0 hectares

Status: Active

The Pelican Complex consists of TWO MAIN fires as well as A FEW INHERITED SMALLER FIRES.

One of the main fires is 10 per cent contained and 2,450 hectares in size.

The other main fire is 20 per cent contained and 11,843 hectares in size.

More accurate mapping was accomplished due to improved visibility.
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A "complex" is simply more than one fire with individual origins located closely together.

Posted by: Retired on August 8 2010 9:59 AM

Gus, where did you find the readings for air quality you gave us on the "New Testing Finds Low Levels of Formaldehyde"blog on Aug 06?

I checked all the sites you gave us but could not find any readings. A lot of stuff on air quality and your health but that was it.
cheers

Posted by: gus on August 8 2010 7:40 PM

Retired .... I am not sure if you are looking for the past formaldehyde readings that were taken in 2008 and presented to the PGAir group in April 2009, or are you looking for the current particulate readings?

Posted by: Retired on August 9 2010 10:37 AM

I was looking for the current particulate readings. MoE had a site where they gave particulate readings and c02 readings at Plaza 400 and BCR Indusrial site and they shut it down. I thought maybe they had started to show these readings again. Thanks a bunch.

Cheers