Kylie Roulet gasping at astoundingly poor visibility from significant pollution in Cleveland, Ohio - July 28, 2010 - 3:00 PM

Dear realNEO:

I have forwarded the following request to Senator Sherrod Brown, who I have contacted regarding poor air quality and defective pollution monitoring in Northeast Ohio, and I expect a response this week that I will share with this community for action.

Norm

Mr. Ryan,

I'm sorry I missed your call.

I'm beginning to compile an issues list for air quality and perhaps you may introduce a staffer capable of answering the following:

Why is our air reading from the State EPA AirNow Site (screenshot attached) Unhealthy For Sensitive Groups now - what monitor data is this based upon - what formula determines that - what software calculates that - what human intervention has touched our air quality data today, where, by whom, under what authority - what are the air pollution conditions for the monitors that never work (Medina and Painesville) and the monitors that appear to sometimes work (Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown, Sheffield Lake, Canton) - why does Cleveland only have one monitor when we had two before this Summer and which monitor location is reporting - why does Warren show a 24 hour reading yet no one hour - who is personally responsible and paid for maintaining the monitor equipment on site at each site - where are the performance records - where is the raw data - who is personally responsible and paid for the data transmissions to the Ohio EPA and any other data management and reporting services and who does have access to our monitor data in what formats -  who is personally responsible and paid for maintaining the data transmissions to Ohio University and the data analysis equipment and software at Ohio University and who has access to the equipment and data - what human interaction with the data and software is legal and authorized - who is responsible for the data at the Ohio EPA AirNow site http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_city&cityid=148 and the NOACA AirOhio site http://ohioair.info/quality/currentmap1hrPM25.asp that are always wrong - who is responsible for determining the air quality forecast for the following day that is always wrong - how are all these people able to be consistently wrong?

What does all this failure cost taxpayers at the city, county, state and Federal level, in what departments of government. What are the economic and health impacts on citizens, where?

Ultimately, what government official is responsible for all this failure, in total?

I'll have many other questions.

See screenshots

I look forward to talking soon,

Norm Roulet, and daughter Kylie Roulet

Astoundingly poor visibility from significant pollution in Cleveland, Ohio - July 28, 2010 - 3:00 PM

Ohio EPA AirNow Pollution Monitoring for Northeast Ohio - BROKEN and UNSAFE

NOACA EPA Air Quality Monitoring for Sheffield Lake, Ohio - UNSAFE

NOACA EPA Air Quality Monitoring for Medina, Ohio - BROKEN

NOACA EPA Air Quality Monitoring for Cleveland, Ohio - UNSAFE and BROKEN

NOACA EPA Air Quality Monitoring for Akron, Ohio - UNSAFE

NOACA EPA Air Quality Monitoring for Canton, Ohio

NOACA EPA Air Quality Monitoring for Youngstown, Ohio - BROKEN

NOACA EPA Air Quality Monitoring for Painesville, Ohio - BROKEN