The Fall line Air Quality Study seeks to assess urban
and regional air pollution, identify the sources of pollutants and pollutant precursors,
and recommend solutions to realized and potential poor air quality in the Augusta, Macon,
and Columbus metropolitan areas of Georgia. Beginning in the summer of 2000 and continuing over the next
four years, a team of researchers from the Schools of Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences and Civil and Environmental
Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology
will provide:
- enhanced monitoring;
- emission inventory development;
- scenario modeling; and
- analysis, assessment, and recommendation.
With oversight from a Coordinating Council,
the FAQS will primarily address ground-level ozone but ancillary results will also provide
better understanding of the mechanisms contributing to other pollutants such as fine
particulate matter.
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