Hi Ken, Max, and Terry,
Happy New Year!
Now that our project proposal is funded and underway, I'd like to provide the attached graphic that I hope captures each of your roles in this project. I'd like to confirm your commitment to these tasks and to begin convening a working group to start ordering and deploying sensors. I had an initial meeting with DEC and they have offered to coordinate instrumentation testing at two locations with known emissions. This requires a few weeks lead time so we'd want to be sure to time acquisition and deployment of the sensors accordingly.
Max, this grant does include your request for graduate student summer support for years 2025 and 2026. I am hoping we can discuss the already-covered position this summer (2024), with the hope that this student would have a role in handling and placing some of the sensor hardware.
It seems from Ken's coverage map that the existing gateways will give us the coverage within the City of Geneva that we need to begin deploying sensors around Guardian Industries, the Geneva Wastewater Treatment Plant, and along key highway corridors through/adjacent to residential neighborhoods.
I believe Ken was going to test coverage to the west to see if there's a possibility of monitoring the Ontario County landfill's eastern edge with the existing gateway hardware. If not, we need to identify a site for installation of a gateway there.
To our east, I have identified and have permission to install a gateway at Waterloo Container--a business immediately across the street from the Seneca Meadows landfill. Depending on the range and topography, I am hoping that this location could also pick up sensors around the Bruno Bock site as well. Here are the two addresses for those locations:
Waterloo Container: 2311 NY-414, Waterloo, NY 13165
Bruno Bock Thiochemicals (formerly Evans Chemetics): 228 E Main St, Waterloo, NY 13165
To our south, I have identified a location about .5 mile north of Greenidge Generation, right along the Seneca Lake shoreline. It is a private residence and I think this will be a viable installation location.
The Greenidge address, for reference, is:
590 Plant Rd, Dresden, NY 14441
We had identified the Heidelberg cement and construction materials mining plant just north of Geneva as another potential source to monitor. It is 4 miles north of the Community Center/High School campus, so I believe with a gateway there we might have coverage along the route to that location. Here is the Heidelberg address:
2046 Preemption Rd., Geneva, NY
If there is a time you might be available to discuss, I would be happy to set up a Zoom sometime between 1/2-1/12/24. I will be unavailable 1/13-1/19/24.
Thanks again for your willingness to collaborate on this project. I thin
From: Jackie Augustine [jackie@blueprintgeneva.org](mailto:jackie@blueprintgeneva.org) Sent: Tuesday, January 2, 2024 07:56 To: Kenneth Schlather [ks47@cornell.edu](mailto:ks47@cornell.edu); K. Max Zhang [kz33@cornell.edu](mailto:kz33@cornell.edu); Terry Moore [tmm@mcci.com](mailto:tmm@mcci.com) Cc: James Anderson [james@blueprintgeneva.org](mailto:james@blueprintgeneva.org) Subject: AQW Roles.pdf
Hi Ken, Max, and Terry, Happy New Year! Now that our project proposal is funded and underway, I'd like to provide the attached graphic that I hope captures each of your roles in this project. I'd like to confirm your commitment to these tasks and to begin convening a working group to start ordering and deploying sensors. I had an initial meeting with DEC and they have offered to coordinate instrumentation testing at two locations with known emissions. This requires a few weeks lead time so we'd want to be sure to time acquisition and deployment of the sensors accordingly.
Max, this grant does include your request for graduate student summer support for years 2025 and 2026. I am hoping we can discuss the already-covered position this summer (2024), with the hope that this student would have a role in handling and placing some of the sensor hardware.
It seems from Ken's coverage map that the existing gateways will give us the coverage within the City of Geneva that we need to begin deploying sensors around Guardian Industries, the Geneva Wastewater Treatment Plant, and along key highway corridors through/adjacent to residential neighborhoods.
I believe Ken was going to test coverage to the west to see if there's a possibility of monitoring the Ontario County landfill's eastern edge with the existing gateway hardware. If not, we need to identify a site for installation of a gateway there.
To our east, I have identified and have permission to install a gateway at Waterloo Container--a business immediately across the street from the Seneca Meadows landfill. Depending on the range and topography, I am hoping that this location could also pick up sensors around the Bruno Bock site as well. Here are the two addresses for those locations: Waterloo Container: 2311 NY-414, Waterloo, NY 13165 Bruno Bock Thiochemicals (formerly Evans Chemetics): 228 E Main St, Waterloo, NY 13165
To our south, I have identified a location about .5 mile north of Greenidge Generation, right along the Seneca Lake shoreline. It is a private residence and I think this will be a viable installation location. The Greenidge address, for reference, is: 590 Plant Rd, Dresden, NY 14441
We had identified the Heidelberg cement and construction materials mining plant just north of Geneva as another potential source to monitor. It is 4 miles north of the Community Center/High School campus, so I believe with a gateway there we might have coverage along the route to that location. Here is the Heidelberg address: 2046 Preemption Rd., Geneva, NY
If there is a time you might be available to discuss, I would be happy to set up a Zoom sometime between 1/2-1/12/24. I will be unavailable 1/13-1/19/24.
Thanks again for your willingness to collaborate on this project. I thin