Air Alliance Houston Reports
GHASP Ozone Monitoring Project
The Houston region is the location of some of the most extensive ambient air monitoring anywhere in the world. Only the Los Angeles region even comes close. Nevertheless, many of us believe that the air monitoring done here is insufficient to protect the health of our region’s citizens.
Starting in the spring of 2005, the Galveston-Houston Association for Smog Prevention (GHASP) began evaluating monitoring technologies that could be deployed by citizens. This effort was financially sponsored by a private donor to GHASP. The executive director at that time decided to focus on ozone at unmonitored locations. Some locations stood out not merely because they were unmonitored, but because models suggested they might have elevated levels of ozone.
