PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM SET ON LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AIR QUALITY ANALYSIS STUDY
(Los Angeles, California – September 23, 2013) A public symposium to discuss the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Air Quality and Source Apportionment Study (AQSAS) will be held on Saturday, September 28, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Red Baron Room at The Proud Bird Restaurant, located at 11022 Aviation Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045.
The public meeting will be held in a symposium-style format with key technical team members presenting the study’s findings. This will be followed by an hour-long, facilitated question and answer period. Informational materials regarding the study will also be provided.
This symposium follows the AQSAS project team’s completion of the study and presentation of its findings to the Board of Airport Commissioners (BOAC) on June 18, 2013. The study and presentation to BOAC can be found on the project web site.
This study is the first of its kind in the nation to comprehensively assess a major airport’s contribution to ambient air quality levels in communities nearby. It found that the levels of all major air pollutants (carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, and fine particulate matter) measured do not exceed national and California air quality standards. The study also found that concentrations of all major as well as other pollutants measured were comparable or lower than concentrations in other similar areas of Los Angeles.
Several options will be offered for submitting written feedback on the study, including at the public meeting on September 28 by e-mail to airqualitystudy@lawa.org , or by mail to: Los Angeles World Airports, Environmental Services Division, Attention: LAX AQSAS, 7301 World Way West, 3rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90045-5803. Written feedback must be received no later than 5 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Friday, October 11, 2013. The report with public input appended will be posted on the project website later this year.
About the LAX Air Quality and Source Apportionment Study (AQSAS)
The study is a comprehensive three-phase, multi-year project that was designed and continuously reviewed by a technical working group of air quality scientists and researchers on the federal, state, and local levels, as well as community organizations.
A variety of sophisticated monitoring equipment and modeling techniques were used to complete this complex study. The air quality monitoring approach included two six-week sampling seasons in Winter/Spring and Summer 2012. More than 121,000 data points were collected at 17 core, satellite, and gradient monitoring sites in the communities adjacent to LAX, including El Segundo (south), Lennox (east), Playa del Rey (upwind northwest), and Westchester (north).
The AQSAS is focused solely on identifying and properly allocating airport-related and other sources of emissions affecting the neighborhoods around LAX. The AQSAS is not intended nor designed to be a health effects or epidemiology study; however, the results of the study and its documented methodology may be used to guide the approach of future studies attempting to analyze health impacts in surrounding communities.
The AQSAS report was made available for public review at the Council District 11 Office located at 7166 W Manchester Avenue, Los Angeles, 90045 and at the following public libraries:
- Westchester-Loyola Village Branch Library, 7114 West Manchester Avenue, Los Angeles, CA90045
- Inglewood Library, 101 West Manchester Boulevard, Inglewood, CA 90301
- El Segundo Library, 111 West Mariposa Avenue, El Segundo, CA90245
About Los Angeles International Airport
LAX is the sixth busiest airport in the world and third in the United States, offering 680 daily flights to 96 domestic cities and 930 weekly nonstop flights to 59 cities in 30 countries on 63 commercial air carriers. It ranks 14th in the world and fifth in the U.S. in air cargo tonnage processed. In 2012, LAX served nearly 63.7 million passengers, processed over 1.9 million tons of air cargo valued at over $86.9 billion, and handled 605,480 aircraft operations (landings and takeoffs). An economic impact
study in 2011 reported that operations at LAX generated 294,400 jobs in Los Angeles County with labor income of $13.6 billion and economic output of more than $39.7 billion. This activity added $2.5 billion to local and state revenues. LAX is part of a system of three Southern California airports – along with LA/Ontario International and Van Nuys general aviation – that are owned and operated by Los Angeles World Airports, a proprietary department of the City of Los Angeles that receives no funding from the City’s general fund.
