Ambient Air quality Monitoring Guidlines. - Maharashtra Pollution ...

averaging should be done and plotted. Best fit lines should be plotted to determine
trends in air quality.
The following must be followed for reporting data
(i) The values should not be reported below the detection limit as per the method.
(ii) SPM/RSPM values which are very high should be reported in round figures
(without decimal place).
(iii) Any outlier values found should be checked for contamination of sample, sudden
change of environmental conditions in the vicinity of the monitoring site etc. and
discarded if necessary.
4.2.10 Financial Requirements
The essential requirements for conducting air quality measurements is the resource
requirements in terms of personnel, infrastructure in the field and lab, equipment and
finance etc. Enough resources should be available for purchase of instruments, hiring
of manpower, establishing laboratory etc. Field staff having chemistry background
preferably be employed for field work and laboratory analysis. The work of chemist and
field staff should be supervised by a scientist who may also be involved in the
interpretation of the data. An example of parameters that needs to be considered for
estimating capital cost and operation and maintenance cost is as follows:
Table 4.5: Operation and Maintenance cost of monitoring stations
S. No. Items
Recurring costs
1 a) Filter paper:
2 b) Chemicals:
3 c) Glassware
4 d) Contingencies
5 e) Transportation
Manpower
1 a) Salary of JSA
2 (a) Salary of JLA/FA
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