Air Quality

Air Quality

• Background sampling - Continuous pre-construction background carbon monoxide monitoring to ensure that public safety is not impacted by any proposed transportation related project
• Safety monitoring - Continuous carbon monoxide monitoring and fresh air ventilation activation to insure public safety while traveling thru special tunneled highway areas
• Ambient compliance sampling - Continuous carbon monoxide monitoring to fulfill Clean Air Act requirements regulated by the MPCA
• Air quality modeling - EPA approved computer modeling provides hot spot analyses to determine projected carbon monoxide concentrations at proposed intersections
• Current projects
• Additional support:
  • Interagency representative
  • Environmental document review
  • Prequalified consultant program
  • Highway Project Development Process (HPDP)
• Minnesota Infrastructure Carbon Estimator tool (MICE), Version 2.1
  • MICE 2.1 user guide (PDF)
• Minnesota Infrastructure Carbon Estimator training (YouTube)