WELCOME TO HealthLinks Healthy Communities Grant North Shore AIR Preliminary Results

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WELCOME TOHealthLinks Healthy Communities
Grant North Shore AIRPreliminary Results
Priorities Forum
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Agenda

• Project Overview
• Air Pollution Data
• Health Data
• Priorities for Reduction
• Community Recognition Awards

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Healthy Communities Grant

• North Shore Air Inventory Report
• (North Shore AIR)
• Awarded to HealthLink
• (10/1/03 to 1/1/06)
• EPA Community Air Toxics EPA Region 1
• Marybeth Smuts
• HealthLink Contacts
• - Susan Yochelson (Program Manager)
• - Cindy Keegan (Compliance Integration)

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Why AIR?

• How much Air do you breathe in a day?
• (0.5 liters per breath) x (20 breaths/minute) x
  (60 minutes/hr) x (24 hrs/day) 8,640 liters
  305 cu.ft., 2282 gals
• Can your Air affect your health?
• What can you do about it?

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What we started out knowing about the Air on
the North Shore?

• Essex County was graded F by the American Lung
  Associations State of the Air 2004 Report.
• Essex County had 2nd Highest Air Emissions in the
  State.
• Area of non-attainment with EPA air quality.
• EPA ranks us as having the Highest increase of
  cancer risk due to air pollution.
• EPA ranks us as having the Highest increase of
  non-cancer risk (respiratory, lung, heart
  disease, etc) due to air pollution.

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North Shore AIR Project

• Area Beverly, Salem, Marblehead
• GOALS
• Compile Air Pollution Source Info
• Compile Summarize Health Data
• Develop List of Priorities
• Involve Share with Community

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Compiling Data
EPA TRI Large Users of Chemicals where they go
HAPs

• Different agencies require different reporting
• - Large facilities only
• Certain chemical emissions only
• Some data is modeled (mobile and area sources)
• Much of the data is old

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Air Pollution Data Source

• WHAT ACTIVITIES CAUSE AIR POLLUTION?

• Background is largest source of Air pollution
  what drifts here from elsewhere.
• Mobile sources (On Road and Non Road) are next
  largest.
• Area Sources (Commercial Residential type
  sources)
• Major is smallest contributor

HAPS vs. HAPs Criteria
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Air Pollution Data Source

• WHAT ARE LARGEST CONTRIBUTORS PER ACTIVITY?

• AREA EMISSIONS (by County)
• Architectural Surface Coating
• FIFRA Consumer Products
• Automotive Consumer Products
• Commercial Printing
• Consumer Coatings
• Consumer Adhesives Sealants
• Paint Stripping
• Body Repair Paint Shops
• Municipal Landfills
• Dry Cleaning
• 16. Gasoline Service Stations

MAJOR EMITTERS (3 TOWNS) CPI-Beverly Microwave
(150 Sohier Rd) Beverly Hospital (85 Herrick
St) Memorial Middle School (502 Cabot St) Salem
Harbor Station (24 Fort Ave) North Shore Medical
(81 Highland Ave) SSC Power Plant (352 Lafayette
St) South Essex Sewerage (50 Fort Ave) Salem
State College (71 Loring Ave) Univar USA Inc.
(Colonial Rd) Marblehead Municipal (7 Woodfin
Ter. 80 Commercial St)
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Air Pollution Data Quantity

• WHAT CHEMICAL CATGORIES POLLUTE THE AIR?

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Air Pollution Data Quantity

• WHAT SPECIFIC CHEMICALS POLLUTE THE AIR?

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Air Pollution Data Location

• WHAT TRENDS ARE WE SEEING?

• Major Sources diminishing over long term.
  Fairly staple since 1999.
• Area Sources limited data for trends (1996
  1999)
• Mobile Sources limited databut

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Health Data

• Compiled from EPA
• Hazards Risks from chemicals emitted
• Compiled MA Dept. of Public Health
• Ma Community Health Information Profile (MassCHIP)

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Health Data Source

• What Activities affect our Health?

• Background is largest contributor to Risk
  (particularly cancer risk)
• Mobile Sources (OnRoad NonRoad) are next
  largest contributor to both Cancer Respiratory
  Risk
• Area is 3rd contributor to Risk
• Major is least contributor to Risk

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Health Data - Chemical

• What Chemicals pose the greatest health risk?

Drycleaning
FIFRA Products
Structure Fires
Wood Burning
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Health Data - Trends

• What trends are being seen?

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Priorities for Reduction
We Need your Input In order to determine
priorities for reduction we want the communitys
thoughts on what is most important to you. So
how would you rank these different issues?
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Priorities for Reduction
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Priorities for Reduction
Participants Input Form Example of Ranking What
did we as a group come up with? Thank you for
your input please pass your form in so we can
account for each individuals thoughts. We will
also be seeking Boards of Health input for these
rankings.
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Mapping Volunteers

• Salem Alliance for the Environment (SAFE)
• Salem Highs ROCs Service Club
• Solar Now
• SSC Alliance
• SSC Hispanic American Society
• SSC Geographical Society

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Community Involvement

• Thank you for your participation this evening in
  helping to set priorities for reduction.
• We will be distributing results via
• WEBSITE www.nsair.org
• PUBLIC LIBRARIES Beverly, Salem, Marblehead
• MAILINGS/EMAILINGS Sign Up
• Special Thanks to Mapping Volunteers

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Upcoming HealthLink Events

• October 20, 2005
• Global Warming What is the Problem? Caring for
  Creation Linking Religious Communities to
  Solutions
• 615 pm Reception
• 7 9 pm Forum
• www.HealthLink.org

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• !!!THANK YOU!!!

If you breathe air you should care
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How we Found Answers?

• Compile Existing Data
• Gather New Data
• Community Involvement
• Air Sources Community Volunteers THIS IS WHERE
  MANY OF YOU CAME IN!
• Health Information SSC Nursing Students

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Priorities for Reduction
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Priorities for Reduction
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To Get Involved Learn More

• See www.nsair.org or www.HealthLink.org
• Contact HealthLink at 781-595-1006
• PO Box 301, Swampscott, MA 01907
• 60 Monument Ave downstairs of Church of the
  Holy Name.
• Project Coordinator Cindy Keegan
  cbkeegan_at_comcast.net or nsair_at_verizon.net

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Projected Benefits

• Community education awareness
• Community planning opportunities (EJ issues,
  concentrated air sources, Emergency response)
• Funding opportunities for reductions
• Increased business assistance
• Increased resident satisfaction their community
  cares and is doing what it can
• Reduced Health Risks Cleaner Air

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How do we Know what affects the air?

• EPA Knows Major Polluters Industrial
• DEP Knows Mid-Major Polluters
  Industrial/Commercial
• EPA/DEP require self-reporting of HAPs (188
  chemicals) and Criteria Air Pollutants (6
  chemicals/categories SO2, NOx, PM, Pb, Ozone,
  VOC)
• EPA has Monitoring Stations (ozone, PM)
• EPA Estimates Major Categories of Air Pollution
  Sources

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From Essex County to Community Specific

• Major/Point Sources- Project Team is compiling
  regulated source info.
• Area Sources Mapping Days to get to more
  accurate emission estimate allow for
  concentration areas to be identified.
• Mobile Sources Project team estimates New
  grant proposal.

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Health Risks from Criteria Air Pollutants in 2003
www.Scorecard.org
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Why are On-Road Sources so High?
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What do we Know about our Health?

• EPA states Air pollutants can cause health
  effects across many body systems, including
  pulmonary (lung), such as coughing, wheezing,
  lung damage skin, causing rashes, boils, etc.
  cardiovascular, causing arrhythmias, heart
  attacks, etc neurological, affecting both the
  central and peripheral nervous systems cancer,
  and other effects.

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What do we Know about our Health?

• Several Cancers are higher than average in our
  towns

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What do we Know about our Health?

• The current percentage of people with asthma in
  Massachusetts is higher than the national average
  (9.4 vs. 7.1 in 2001).
• American Lung Association estimates 397,186
  adults and 77,393 children in MA alone.
• Respiratory Disorders were the 3rd largest
  indication for Outpatient visits in FY 2002 in MA
  (across all groups of race/ethnicity)
• Asthma is the leading chronic illness affecting
  children according to the American Lung
  Association.
• MA FY 2002 charges for inpatient asthma
  hospitalizations alone totaled 55.5 million.
  Inpatient charges for Medicaid and Medicaid
  Managed Care totaled over 12 million while free
  care charges were 1.5 million.

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What we didnt Know?

• City Specific Data
• Data Gaps (Age of Data, Estimates, Missing
  Sources)
• What Air pollution may affect our health most?
• What sources produce harmful effects?
• What health effects are we seeing that may be
  related to Air pollution?
• What reductions have happened already?
• What reductions are possible?