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Dec 3, 2019 · The team gathered air samples from fixed locations, including a former elementary school south of the airport and SeaTac Community Center north of the airport. Researchers also collected air samples through mobile monitors mounted on hybrid vehicles that were driven on 11 routes north and south of the airport in time periods that covered all four seasons of the year.
Dec 6, 2019 · SeaTac, Wash. — Communities underneath and downwind of jets landing at Sea-Tac Airport are exposed to a unique mix of air pollution, according to a new University of Washington study.
- First Study to Track Air Traffic Pollution Around Sea-Tac
- Ultrafine Particles and Air Quality
- What Is The Health Effect?
- Communities Shape The Research
- “I Want Transparency”
The communities around Sea-Tac airport are not alone in their concerns about aircraft emissions. Last week, US Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) reintroduced a bill to establish a national study on the health effects of ultrafine particles around airport communities, including those in Seattle. The DEOHS study could help inform the legislation. DEOHS r...
UW researchers worked on an earlier Los Angeles International Airport studythat found aircraft landings produced ultrafine particle pollution roughly equivalent to LA’s freeway network. That pollution negatively impacted air quality much farther (over a 23-square-mile area that extended 10 miles downwind) than reported in prior airport studies. Set...
Ultrafine particle exposure has been linked with adverse cardiovascular and respiratory health effects (and even possibly the risk of dementia). Yet the US Environmental Protection Agency does not routinely monitor ultrafine particle air pollution, Seto said. The study wasn’t designed to capture health effects, but it laid the foundation for the He...
For Seto, the study is “addressing on-the-ground needs with actionable research.” Communities around Sea-Tac have shaped the research in concrete ways. The initial study design included mobile monitoring only (a cost-effective approach where researchers drive air monitoring equipment to myriad locations) and only during daytime hours. Community fee...
Bottom line, Seto said: “When we’ve heard from residents, it’s often framed from an environmental justice perspective—why are flights concentrated over certain communities and not others?" Those communities are asking legitimate questions about how this translates into differences in exposures and impacts and how health outcomes might be related to...
Oct 27, 2024 · What to do. How to provide public comment. Explainer. Process. SAMP Environmental Review Factsheet September 20, 2024 – Sea-Tac Airport Noise And Pollution (seatacnoise.info) SAMP-30-DayNotice_Factsheet_2024_0920 – Sea-Tac Airport Noise And Pollution (seatacnoise.info) SAMP_FAQs_2024_0920 – Sea-Tac Airport Noise And Pollution (seatacnoise ...
Oct 25, 2024 · It is the next major expansion plan of Sea-Tac Airport. The SAMP was announced in 2012 as part of the Port’s Century Agenda– an aggressive business plan which is responsible for the record increases in flight operations in the past decade. The goal of the SAMP is to enable operations to continue to grow at that same pace for at least the ...
UW researchers collected air samples at numerous locations around Sea-Tac Airport over the course of one year between 2018 and 2019. They found that communities underneath and downwind of jets landing at Sea-Tac Airport are exposed to a type of ultrafine particle pollution that is distinctly associated with aircraft.
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Mar 5, 2020 · Communities underneath and downwind of jets landing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are exposed to a type of ultrafine particle pollution that is distinctly associated with aircraft, according to a new study from the University of Washington.
