Project Plan Erie County Department of the Environment and Planning
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Sampling Objective (e.g. Why you are sampling and what you hope to learn)
Determine the quality of the air where students load onto the buses in the front of the school. The levels of CO2, CO, NO2, and O3 are expected to increase from baseline values as the buses arrive to pick up students. The concentrations are expected to drop dramatically when the buses leave en masse.
What parameters are you sampling for? (e.g. N02, CO, C02)
CO2, CO, NO2, O3
Describe the Method of Data Collection - (Include the frequency, duration and location of monitoring.)
We will sample data for forty five minutes in front of the school where students load onto buses.
Explain how you will establish background levels of sampling parameters.
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