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Network Plan Part 10 - Southern Monitoring Operation Site Descriptions (continued)

Manhattanville Post Office

Address: United States Post Office - Manhattanville Station
365 West 125th Street
New York, NY 10027

AQS Number: 36-061-0119
DEC Number: 7093-17
County: New York
Statistical Area: New York City Metropolitan Area
Coordinates: 40.81133 N -73.95321 W

The Manhattanville Post Office site was established in 2000 as a continuous fine particulate (PM_2.5) monitoring site. The site utilizes a R&P Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance (TEOM). This site is located in an urbanized, residential and commercial area of Manhattan. Data from this site are reported to AIRNow.

The parameters monitored are indicated in the following table:

Maspeth Library

Address: Queens Public Library - Maspeth
69-70 Grand Avenue
Maspeth, NY 11378

AQS Number: 36-081-0120
DEC Number: 7096-13
County: Queens
Statistical Area: New York City Metropolitan Area
Coordinates: 40.72698 N -73.89313 W

The Maspeth Library was established as a continuous fine particulate (PM_2.5) monitoring site in 2000. The site utilizes a R&P Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance (TEOM). This site is located in an urbanized, residential area in the vicinity of two major New York City roadways, the Long Island Expressway and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The continuous fine particulate (PM_2.5) monitoring data from this site are reported to AIRNow.

The parameters monitored are indicated in the following table:

Address: Morrisania Diagnostic and Treatment Center
1225-57 Gerard Avenue
Bronx, NY 10452

AQS Number: 36-005-0080
DEC Number: 7094-05
New York State County: Bronx
Statistical Area: New York City Metropolitan Area
Coordinates: 40.83606 N -7N -73.92009 W

The Morrisania II air monitoring station was originally established in 1989 as a Hi-Volume PM10 site. In 1990 ozone, sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen analyzers were added. PM10 was subsequently discontinued. A Federal Reference
Method fine particulate (PM_2.5) sampler was added in 1999. In May of 2000 all continuous analyzers were discontinued and the site became a stand-alone PM_2.5 site.

Following the construction at school where the IS 52 monitoring station is located, equipment for the National Air Toxics Trends Station (NATTS) program was moved to Morrisania II. This equipment will be returned to the IS 52 site at the completion of construction in mid 2012.

The FRM PM_2.5 sampler at Morrisania II is part of the overall PM_2.5 monitoring network used for comparison to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

The parameters monitored are indicated in the following table:

^a NATTS Equipment - temporarily at Morrisania during construction at IS 52

New York Botanical Garden

Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory

Harding Laboratory

Address: New York Botanical Garden
200th Street and Southern Blvd.
Bronx, NY 10458-5126

Geographic information for New York Botanical Garden

This site was established in the Harding Laboratory at the New York Botanical Garden in January 1995. This site was originally established for the Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Station (PAMS) program with some summa canister sampling beginning in June 1994. During the summer of 2006, the New York Botanical Garden completed construction on the Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory. This is a state of the art laboratory and research facility that replaced the Harding laboratory. Through an agreement with the Department, NYBG provided space in the new facility for the Department's ambient air monitoring station.

Starting with the 2006 PAMS season the continuous GC was moved to the new monitoring site at the Pfizer Lab. The ozone, sulfur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, methane/non-methane, canisters, and carbonyl samplers were moved to the Pfizer Lab the end of December 2006. The FRM PM_2.5 sampler was moved to the Pfizer Laboratory on January 1, 2008. The FRM fine particulate (PM_2.5) sampler installed at the Pfizer Laboratory is part of the overall PM_2.5 monitoring network used for comparison to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

On January 9, 2008 the Mercury Deposition Network (MDN) Automatic Precipitation Sampler and the ETI Instrument Systems NOAH IV Total Precipitation Measurement System was installed as part of establishing a MDN site at Pfizer Laboratory. The Tekran Elemental and Reactive Gas Mercury equipment was installed in August, 2008.

The meteorological equipment remains at the Harding Laboratory. At this time the Garden's future plans for the Harding Laboratory building are unknown, however it is anticipated that this building will be torn down in the future.

This site is being utilized for the New York City Community Air Survey as part of the PlaNYC initiative.

The parameters monitored are indicated in the following tables:

Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory

Harding Laboratory

Port Richmond

Address: United States Post Office - Port Richmond Station
364 Port Richmond Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10302

AQS Number: 36-085-0055
DEC Number: 7097-03
New York State County: Richmond
Statistical Area: New York City Metropolitan Area
Coordinates: 40.63307 N -74.13719 W

The Port Richmond air monitoring station was originally established as a Hi-Volume PM10 site in 1984. In December 1999, a Federal Reference
Method fine particulate (PM_2.5) sampler was installed. This FRM PM_2.5 sampler is part of the overall PM_2.5 monitoring network used for comparison to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. In April 2011 a TEOM was added to this site following the shutdown of the PS 44 monitoring station.

The parameters monitored are indicated in the following table: