The Ambient Air Monitoring Section of Broward County Environmental Protection Department, Air Quality Division operates nine ambient air monitoring stations throughout Broward County. Many of these sites have been in continuous operation since 1971, while other sites have been established over the years to keep up with the growth of the County. Each monitoring site has been specifically selected to be comparable to sites of similar geographic qualities throughout the nation and representative of many areas around Broward County. The Air Quality data gathered from these sites becomes part of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) national air quality data base.

In order to provide accurate information about the air quality in Broward County, each monitoring site has equipment designed to measure specific pollutant concentrations. Several of the monitoring locations also measure meteorological conditions, such as temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and wind direction. All of the pollutant data are retrieved hourly by a central computer via an automated telephone connection. The technology in use is so advanced that air quality data may be viewed at the central computer, as it is being collected.

Locations of the Air Monitoring Network and the pollutants measured are:

Site Number	Location	Pollutant(s) Measured
1	Pompano Beach	Ozone, Wind direction  & Wind speed
8	Davie	Particulate Matter (PM2.5), Particulate Matter (PM10) & Speciated PM2.5, Wind direction, Wind speed, Relative Humidity, Outside temperature, Rain, Air Toxics, Black Carbon
17	Pompano Beach	Carbon Monoxide, PM2.5, PM10, Air Toxics
18	Hollywood	Carbon Monoxide, PM2.5, PM10, Air Toxics
25	Dania Beach	Ozone, Nitrogen Dioxide
28	Fort Lauderdale	Carbon Monoxide, Sulfur Dioxide, Relative Humidity, Outside temperature, PM10
30	Coconut Creek	PM10, Air Toxics
31	Coral Springs	Ozone, Nitrogen Dioxide, Wind direction, Wind Speed, Relative humidity, Outside Temperature, Barometric Pressure.
*33	Western Davie	Ozone, PM2.5, Wind direction, Wind speed, Outside Temperature, Relative humidity

* Initiation date - January 2, 2008.