Category: Air Quality

The Division of Air Quality has been monitoring ambient concentrations of Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) in the Salt Lake Valley for over a decade. Since trace amounts of toxic compounds have been linked to such adverse health effects as cancer, ribosomal damage, birth defects, and other serious conditions it is important to gain a better…

The first analysis of toxics data completed by the UDAQ in 2014 indicated that certain organic toxic compounds regularly exceed risk levels. Research funding from the 2014 Utah legislative session allowed UDAQ to undertake a new and comprehensive analysis which included new monitoring sites to better understand the spatial distribution of toxics along the Wasatch…

This report aims to identify where Bountiful fits among other metropolitan areas across the continental United States with respect to Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs)’ concentration and trends. To accomplish that, four other metropolitan areas with diverse levels of industrialization, population, geography, and climate were used for comparison. A crucial requirement in selection was for each…

A year-long study conducted by the Utah Division of Air Quality (UDAQ) in 2015 showed high levels of formaldehyde and dichloromethane at Bountiful Viewmont monitoring site in Davis County. Measured concentrations of these air toxics were also often associated with a high cancer risk, exceeding the one-in-a-million cancer risk threshold. However, while this study helped…

Two air sampling campaigns that will be carried out in West Valley City, UT during the winter and summer months using a suite of state-of-the-art instruments. Data from this study will allow for an estimate of population exposure to HAPs. West Valley City is a municipality with a rapidly expanding population (2nd largest in Utah)…