CAAP Mourns Death of Leader, Frank Schiavo
After years of wrangling with the airport over the issue of measuring air pollution , an agreement has been reached. About year ago, the city, the airport, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and CAAP met at City Hall . The groundwork was laid for a study of the data that is recorded at the 4th and Jackson BAAQMD air monitor station. This station is the closest to the airport, and under the right kind of analysis, the data will tell us if the airport is a major or minor source of air pollution. It took 15 months of negotiating a contract, and finally last month an agreement was signed. Joanne Sanfilippo, the airport’s community relations manager prepared this notice giving a summary of the agreement.
Over the next six months a joint air quality research project will analyze data from the Jackson Street Air Monitor in San Jose, using local metrological measurements, to determine possible contributions to ambient air quality levels in the area surrounding the airport.
Mineta San José International Airport (SJC) and the San José State University Research Foundation, in cooperation with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, executed an agreement on April 2 to conduct the study using BAAQMD’s air monitor readings. The $3850 study will be funded by SJC.
Dr. Phil Martien, Director of the BAAQMD Community Air Risk Evaluation Program, will be the project manager for this study. Professor Bob Bornstein from the San José State Meteorology Department will be the principal investigator. San José State University students will be working under their supervision.
The project’s first task is to review the Air Quality Summary Report recently produced for the SJC by David J. Powers and Associates, Inc., that estimates emissions associated with the airport and identifies the measures already taken to reduce air pollution. The Powers report also summarizes previous emission measurement studies at other US airports similar to SJC in size, activity, and surroundings.
The SJSU researchers will then analyze existing meteorological and BAAQMD air quality data collected from the Jackson Street Air Monitor to determine possible pollutants associated with the airport in ambient air quality levels in the areas near the SJC. Based on these first two tasks, the research team will prepare an Interim report for review and comment by the City of San Jose, airport and BAAQMD community stakeholder group.
The last task is a final report that incorporates feedback on the interim report and will include technical comments by BAAQMD comparing the findings of this report to historical and commonly accepted data known to BAAQMD.
The study results will be shared with the City, Airport, BAAQMD stakeholder group, and the public. The agreement also supports the possibility for the research team to submit technical papers to an air quality journal or for other professional presentations and publications if the project successfully develops new analysis techniques that could be used by other researchers.
(24 hour reporting of loud aircraft, curfew penetrations, engine run-ups in the middle of the night)
The city of San Jose has a new info line that is a 24/7 fax. The number is 408-277-8500 with four digit codes for the following:
As a result of resident concerns, Jerry Hetnar, Environmental Department, of the San Jose Airport is logging dates, times, and addresses of people who are smelling Aircraft fumes. His phone number is 408-501-7706. You can even leave a message after working hours with your fumes complaint date and time.
Don't hesitate to call and log your fume concern! It is only by speaking up and raising our voices that we will get heard! Many people calling will lead to some kind of investigation of those pungent fumes and perhaps something to monitor our most precious resource - OUR AIR!!
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WebTrak™, an Internet flight tracking system, has been released by the San Jose Airport on their web site.
SFO Live Radar Flight Tracks allows you to watch the movement of flights and air traffic patterns currently in use within the Bay Area. This map shows flight tracks of aircraft arriving and departing from SFO, Oakland, and San Jose Airport and other nearby general aviation airports. (although not real time, there is a delay of ten minutes)