EPA will dispatch buses for air-quality study around Port San Antonio
San Antonio Business Journal
EPA officials notified the former Kelly AFB Restoration Advisory Board that the agency will conduct a soil vapor intrusion study in San Antonio to gauge the potential impact of ground water pollution on surrounding air quality.
The study will take samples from a neighborhood next to the former Kelly Air Force Base. The government officially closed the base in 2001. However, there are ongoing clean-up efforts associated with the former base.
The base has since been redeveloped as the Port San Antonio industrial park.
The two-part study will begin on May 12 and will specifically focus on an area neighborhood with a high concentration of ground-water pollutants. The study will determine whether any pathway exists for contaminants to enter the air that is inhaled by local residents.
The EPA will use its Trace Atmospheric Gas Analyzer buses for a phase of the study. These buses contain advanced mobile laboratories that can produce continuous, real-time sampling and analysis of the air it tests.
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