Boulder’s winter ozone meeting now on June 26

Joy Ufford
Posted 5/24/19

Potentially identifying causes high ozone levels in March.

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Boulder’s winter ozone meeting now on June 26

Posted

The Wyoming

Department of Environmental Quality

announced on May 21 that it had to cancel

and reschedule its post-winter ozone season

meeting planned for that night in Boulder.

The DEQ has rescheduled the meeting

for Wednesday, June 26, from 6 to 8 p.m.

at the Boulder Community Center, 304

Adams St.

Bad roads and unsafe travel conditions

led DEQ Director Todd Parfitt to cancel

the May 21 meeting, which will have the

DEQ and its Air Quality Division address

the extremely high ozone concentrations

that occurred in March around the agency’s

Boulder South monitoring station.

Recently, Pinedale Anticline operators

addressed last winter’s ozone levels at their

annual planning meeting with the board

of directors at the Bureau of Land Management.

Each said they had worked with

DEQ and looked for possible emissions

leaks that might have contributed and found

nothing out of the ordinary.

DEQ officials have been asked if operations

with open condensation ponds at the

Anticline Disposal (now NGL Disposal)

could have led to extremely high one-hour

and eight-hour ozone levels, well over the

70 parts per billion federal standard. Some

of that information was expected to be

available at the May 21 meeting in Boulder.

For more about the trends of winter ozone

in the Upper Green River Basin, visit http://

deq.wyoming.gov/aqd/winter-ozone/.