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  • Title: Middle- and Neighborhood-Scale Variations of PM10 Source Contributions in Las Vegas, Nevada.
    Author: Chow JC, Watson JG, Green MC, Lowenthal DH, DuBois DW, Kohl SD, Egami RT, Gillies J, Rogers CF, Frazier CA, Cates W.
    Journal: J Air Waste Manag Assoc; 1999 Jun; 49(6):641-54. PubMed ID: 26355370.
    Abstract:
    The Las Vegas Valley PM10 Study was conducted during 1995 to determine the contributions to PM10 aerosol from fugitive dust, motor vehicle exhaust, residential wood combustion, and secondary aerosol sources. Twenty-four-hr PM10 samples were collected at two neighborhood-scale sites every sixth day for 13 months. Five week-long intensive studies were conducted over a middle-scale sub-region at 29 locations that contained many construction projects emitting fugitive dust. The study found that the zone of influence around individual emitters was less than 1 km. Most of the sampling sites in residential and commercial areas yielded equivalent PM10 concentrations in the neighborhood region, even though they were more distant from each other than they were from the nearby construction sources. Based on chemical mass balance (CMB) receptor modeling, fugitive dust accounted for 80-90% of the PM10, and motor vehicle exhaust accounted for 3-9% of the PM10 in the Las Vegas Valley.
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