The City of Hickory and Western Piedmont Council of Governments are located in the foothills of North Carolina's Appalachian Mountain range. Hickory is home to one of the State's largest remaining concentrations of furniture and textile industries. Like much of the State and Southeast Region of the U.S., the Hickory Metro area has struggled to find a new economic identity after losing 25,000 jobs since January, 2001. Hickory and the whole of Catawba County were designated as a non-attainment area for PM2.5 (fine particulate matter) by the USEPA in December, 2004. Previously, Hickory had also been designated as non-attainment for ozone, which led to the development of an Early Action Compact (EAC) that adopted 14 local control measures to address ozone formation. This paper and presentation relates the concerns that the Unifour has expressed about the relationships between PM2.5 monitoring methodologies, localized land uses, and the non-attainment area designation process. Land use and transportation issues have played a large role during the history of the PM2.5 assessment process. The issue is compounded because the only PM2.5 monitoring site is affected by out-of-state transport; is located in a low-income / minority community; and is in the heart of the remaining manufacturing sector of the City served by an active diesel rail line. The paper presents the concepts that Hickory and the Unifour Area have devised and implemented that may help other small- and medium-sized communities understand, assess, and mitigate for fine particulates.
PM2.5 Source Apportionment — Case Study of Hickory, NC
Transportation Land Use, Planning, and Air Quality Congress 2007 ; 2007 ; Orlando, Florida, United States
2008-05-15
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
PM~2~.~5 Source Apportionment-Case Study of Hickory, NC
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