Tribal Air Quality Collaborative Efforts

Overview

Ak-Chin Indian Community (ACIC)

Air Quality Program

Tribal Collaboration

Ak-Chin Indian Community

Ak-Chin Indian Community Ak-Chin is an O’Odham word translated to

mean “place where the wash loses itself into the sand or ground”

Located approximately 40 miles south of Phoenix in Pinal County

Comprised of 22,140 acres 15,000 acres are dedicated to agriculture Extremely arid Sonoran Desert Climate

Ak-Chin Air Quality Program

Installed the monitoring station in February 2007

U.S. EPA funded since October 2007 Original Emissions Inventory was conducted

2004, revised in 2007 and currently under revision

Monitor for PM10 and Ozone

Reasons for Collaboration Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) is the

closest neighboring tribe, approx. 26 miles Both GRIC and ACIC face the same air

issues and impacts (agriculture, desert, encroachment, etc.)

Both GRIC and ACIC have similar air monitoring equipment

GRIC is a mature air quality program and ACIC can learn from their accomplishments

Both GRIC and ACIC have similar impacted populations (children, adults and elderly)

Collaborative Efforts

Reviewing Data Logger

Cleaning PM-10 Inlet

Assembling and Collaborating Dust Trak

Servicing ACIC Air Monitoring Station

Questions

Contact Information:Ralph “Manny” GomezAir Quality Specialist

Environmental Protection DepartmentPhone: (520) 568-1162

E-mail: rgomez@ak-chin.nsn.us