- What type of organisation best describes you?
Individuals on behalf of a Community.
- Describe your organisation.
We are a group of families living in Maydena, a small town in SW Tasmania, who are being smoked out by forestry burn-offs and just want clean air to breathe.
- Describe your project.
We are attempting to stop the unnecessary forestry and plantation burn-offs that occur after coupes are logged. We used to get warnings that these were about to happen but now they don’t bother. Often the town is swathed in thick, choking, acrid smoke for days on end. Many people have respiratory ailments and asthmatic children are too sick to go to school. We were previously advised to ‘move away’ until the smoke clears - but where are we supposed to go? Complaints to the EPA and local politicians fall on deaf ears and it is, therefore, necessary to obtain accurate air quality monitoring when these events occur in order to present our case. Photographs alone showing the awful situation are not enough, apparently. We have repeatedly asked for air quality monitors but they are not forthcoming.
- Which Purple Air model(s) are you interested in and how many would you want for your project?
We need outdoor models - Zen or Flex. We would be grateful to receive one but two would be perfect.
