INHALE

INHALE is the first community air monitoring project in Canada. Jointly led by Environment Hamilton and Toronto Environmental Alliance with funding from Metcalf Foundation, this project puts local air quality monitoring into the hands of community members. Read more about the project.

Local Community Air Tracker volunteers are gathering data on fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) using easy‐to‐operate mobile air particulate monitoring equipment that can be attached to backpacks, bikes, baby strollers, walkers or scooters. This data is being mapped out here so it is easily accessible to the entire community.

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Coloured squares: The air quality samples gathered by INHALE volunteers are clustered and displayed on the map as squares. Colours are based on an average of the samples collected in a particular area. The colours range from green to dark red, indicating low to high particulate levels measured in the air.

As more samples are collected, areas with chronically poor air quality will be revealed. Click on a square to see more details about the data samples and when they were collected.

Coloured circles: The Province of Ontario operates a small number of air monitoring stations that collect data used to calculate the Air Quality Health Index. The current air quality measurement (ug/m3) for Particulate Matter 2.5 is displayed in the circles on the INHALE map.

The data contained in this website has not undergone verification and is intended for educational purposes only.

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Resources

The INHALE Project is a joint initiative of Environment Hamilton and Toronto Environmental Alliance with funding from Metcalf Foundation. The first community air monitoring project in Canada, it is inspired by an initiative in Pittsburgh run by Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP).

Visit the INHALE Project website: inhaleproject.ca

For more resources on topics of air quality, health impacts of air pollution, air monitoring, quality of life and local economies, visit the INHALE website: http://www.inhaleproject.ca/resources

To gain a better understanding of how particulate matter is regulated in Canada and beyond, here are some great technical and policy resources:

Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change
Fine Particulate Matter
http://airqualityontario.com/science/pollutants/particulates.php

Health Canada
National Ambient Air Quality Objectives For Particulate Matter
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/air/naaqo-onqaa/particulate_matter_matieres_particulaires/summary-sommaire/index-eng.php

Environment Canada
Particulate Matter
https://www.ec.gc.ca/air/default.asp?lang=En&n=2C68B45C-1

United States Environmental Protection Agency
Particulate Matter (PM)
http://www.epa.gov/pm/

World Health Organization
WHO Air quality guidelines for particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2006/WHO_SDE_PHE_OEH_06.02_eng.pdf

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This legend shows how the map clusters are coloured.
A 2.00x average means the PM_2.5 levels were twice as high at that location compared to all the samples taken that same period.

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This legend shows how the current provincial Air Quality Station PM_2.5 levels are coloured.
Station levels are measured every hour.
Units are in µg/m³ read as micrograms per cubic metre.

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	+2.00×
	1.50-2.00×
	1.25-1.50×
	1.00-1.25×
	<=1.00×

	+3977
	2287-3977
	1324-2286
	600-1323
	0-599

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