Air Quality Monitoring Networks

Maine DEP 2015 Annual AQ Monitoring Meeting

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1-hr NAAQS = 10,000 µg/m³ 8-hr NAAQS = 40,000 µg/m³

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HAPs Toxicity (concentration * toxic factor)

pressurized canister samples

Pollutant CKP PDO KPS PIRS RAPAcrolein 54,778 227,704 139,406 212,836 218,470Benzene 873 3,172 1,314 2,801 3,680Carbon tetrachloride 685 2,746 1,228 2,896 3,4641,3-Butadiene 561 2,948 660 2,113 2,764Naphthalene 256 9,453 2,835 42,278Chloroform 210 819 351 1,536 1,345Ethylene dichloride 197 715 338 926 1,0551,1-Dichloroethane 130 292 101 127 307Tetrachloroethylene 126 161 84 310 217Chloromethane 47 182 86 179 225Dichloromethane 24 67 29 67 82

1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane 10 21 6 8 11Bromomethane 10 31 14 130 40Vinyl chloride 9.4 19 5.5 84 82Xylene(s) 7.5 24 8.9 17 22Trichloroethylene 4.8 18 4.1 22 11Toluene 4.6 15 5.8 12 161,1,2-Trichloroethane 2 4 1 7 71,4-Dichlorobenzene 2 8 4 14 12Ethylbenzene 0.3 1 0.4 0.7 1

1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene 0 0 0 0 0o-Xylene 0.03 1.7 0.23 0.5 4

Methyl isobutyl ketone 0.03 0.12 0.05 0.09 0.09Methyl chloroform 0.01 0.4 0.1 0.2 2.2Chloroethane 0 0 0 0 0

Methyl tert-butyl ether 0 0.01 0 0.01 0.002Chlorobenzene 0 0 0 0 01,1-Dichloroethylene 0 0 0 01,3-Dichloropropene(total) 0 0 0 0 0Ethylene dibromide 0 0 0 0 01,2-Dichloropropane 0 0 0

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Acadia National Park 20% Best Day Regional Haze Trends

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Current and BaselineEastern Class I Area

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Meeting presentations on the following ftp site:

http://www.maine.gov/dep/ftp/AQMC2015/