Wednesday September 12

September 11

           It has been 11 years since 9/11, it was one of the worst days in American history...

terrorist tried to break us, and kill thousands of innocent lives. They did exceed by killing thousands of lives, but did not take us down. We should remember this day, and the people that died, or lost someone in 9/11. Honor the men and women who had the courage to try and save thousands of lives. Now, the airports make very sure that that wil never happen again, not allowing things that could be a weapon on to the planes, and now we can't even bring drinks on board. You might think airports are over reacting, but some people to this day are still scared to go on a plane. I guess the new things might make some people mad, or happy. At least now we are protected from things like that to happen again. So don't be afraid to remember that day, honor it and say your pledge of allegiance loud and clear so the world can hear!

Council Ponders COPS Grant

           The Eastvale City Council on September 12 is set to vote on using a $100,000 Cal COPS Grant allocation to provide partial funding for the city’s traffic enforcement unit.In addition to law enforcement, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department contracts with Eastvale for an additional unit to provide enhanced traffic control.Council members also are scheduled to vote on a better schedule of parking fines and penalties.The Eastvale City Council will meet  at 6:30 p.m. at Rosa Parks Elementary School, 13830 Whispering Hills Drive.

Did you smell that?

                 Air quality officials have further confirmed the Salton Sea as the likely source of strong sulfur odors smelled by thousands of residents across more than 150 miles of the Southland yesterday.

“We now have solid evidence that clearly points to the Salton Sea as the source of a very large and unusual odor event,” said Barry Wallerstein, executive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District.

     AQMD technicians took numerous air samples in Riverside and San Bernardino counties yesterday while AQMD field inspectors, trained to gauge the worst of odors, conducted odor surveillance in the Coachella Valley and across the agency’s four-county jurisdiction (Click here (PDF 1MB) to see map of sampling locations).

      Today’s analysis of the air samples show an increase of hydrogen sulfide levels, with the highest concentrations found at the Salton Sea and decreasing concentrations found as the distance increased from the sea. This progression, or gradient, shows that Salton Sea is the source of the odor.

In addition, AQMD inspectors visited some of the potential sources such as landfills and oil refineries and ruled them out as the potential sources of the mass causes of the odors. AQMD officials also performed air quality modeling, proving that the strong odors could have made there way across the region because of the recent weather conditions.

Hydrogen sulfide, a product of organic decay such as that occurring in the Salton Sea, has an unmistakable rotten-egg odor. Scientists have theorized that strong winds pushed surface waters aside and allowed water from the bottom of the shallow sea, rich with hydrogen sulfide, to rise to the surface.

While big amount of hydrogen sulfide at the Salton Sea yesterday was higher than usual, they were not high enough to cause irreversible harm to human health, but we should still be careful about the problem. This is the case even taking into account that concentrations in the early hours Monday may have been considerably higher than when AQMD technicians sampled for the gas on Monday evening.

Since midnight Sunday (12:10 a.m. Monday) AQMD has received about 235 complaints of sulfur- and rotten-egg type odors. Almost all calls were received by 5:30 p.m. on Monday, with only a dozen or so received overnight and Tuesday morning.

On Sunday evening, a strong thunderstorm developed over the Salton Sea and winds from the southeast of at least 50 miles per hour pushed odors from the Salton Sea to the northwest – across the Coachella Valley, through the Banning Pass and across the Los Angeles Basin, air quality officials said. Since yesterday, an onshore breeze from the west appears to have kept any remaining odors from spreading far into the Los Angeles Basin. (Information from aqmd.gov)

Jasmine Vivanco

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