CRPAQS Site Documentation

Fresno First Street Site
Site Name: / Fresno First Street
Site Code: / FSF
Address: / 3425 First Street
Fresno, CA
Site Coordinates: / N 36 46’ 54”
W 119 46’ 24”
Site Elevation: / 97 meters MSL
Sampler Height: / 10 meters
Site Type: / Anchor
Site Purpose: / Community Exposure; Visibility
Site Visit: / January 17, 2001
Site Instruments: / Annual Study
  • Nephelometer (2/2/00 - remained after CRPAQS)
  • PM2.5 Minivol, Teflon-impregnated glass fiber (2/6/00 - 1/31/01)
  • O3 Analyzer (11/18/99 - remained after CRPAQS)
  • NOy Analyzer (12/15/99 - remained after CRPAQS)
  • Continuous OC/EC Analyzer (12/15/99 - remained after CRPAQS)
  • PM2.5 BAM (7/10/99 - remained after CRPAQS)
  • PM10 BAM (7/10/99 - remained after CRPAQS)
  • 1-Wavelength Aethalometer (5/12/99 - remained after CRPAQS)
  • 7-Wavelength Aethalometer (5/12/99 - remained after CRPAQS)
  • Continuous Nitrate Analyzer (9/23/99 - remained after CRPAQS)
  • Continuous Sulfate Analyzer (2/7/00 - remained after CRPAQS)
  • PM2.5 Sequential Filter Sampler (12/1/99 - 2/3/01)
  • Differential Mobility Analyzer (12/17/99 - remained after CRPAQS)
  • Optical Particle Counter (12/16/99 - remained after CRPAQS)
Summer Study Additions
  • PM2.5 Organic Sampler (PUF/XAD) (6/1/00 - 8/31/00)
Winter Study Additions
  • Sequential Gas Samplers (12/15/00 - 2/3/01)
  • MOUDIs (12/15/00 - 2/3/01)
  • Continuous Nitric Acid Analyzer (12/1/00 - remained after CRPAQS)
  • PAN/NO2 Analyzer (12/1/00 - remained after CRPAQS)
  • ATOFMS (11/30/00 - 2/3/01)
  • Light Hydrocarbon Sampler (canister) (12/15/00 - 2/3/01)
  • Heavy Hydrocarbon Sampler (TENAX) (12/15/00 - 2/3/01)
  • PM2.5 Organic Sampler (PUF/XAD) (12/15/00 - 2/3/01)
  • Carbonyl Sampler (12/15/00 - 2/3/01)

Site Description: The site is located in a 2-story commercial office building in a mixed commercial/residential neighborhood. There is a shopping center to the south and a major thoroughfare, Shields Avenue, to the south of that. Another major thoroughfare, First Street, lies just to the east of the site. There is a 1-story blood bank building immediately to the west of the site.
The site is both a permanent ARB monitoring station and the location of the U.S. EPA's Fresno Supersite. The CRPAQS instruments are interspersed amongst the existing instruments in the second-floor facility, with sampling inlets extending through the roof. The nephelometer and particle samplers are located on the roof, adjacent to the ARB and Supersite samplers. Some instruments are housed in a metal shed located on the roof.

Fresno First Street site (distant view), looking N

Fresno First Street site, looking N

Fresno First Street rooftop, looking NE

Fresno First Street rooftop north end, looking E

Fresno First Street rooftop west row, looking NW

Fresno First Street rooftop west center row, looking N

Fresno First Street rooftop east center row, looking N

Fresno First Street rooftop east row, looking N

Fresno First Street rooftop nephelometers & minivols, looking SW

Fresno First Street rooftop sequential gas samplers, looking SW

Fresno First Street rooftop shed, looking NE

Fresno First Street rooftop shed door, looking N

Fresno First Street rooftop shed canister & carbonyl samplers, looking NW

Fresno First Street rooftop shed MOUDIs, looking E

Fresno First Street rooftop shed PUF/XAD & TENAX samplers, looking NE

Fresno First Street ATOFMS, looking NE

Fresno First Street nitrate analyzers, looking SW

Fresno First Street sulfate analyzer, looking E

Fresno First Street particle size & OC/EC analyzers, looking S

Fresno First Street laboratory bench, looking S

Fresno First Street BAMs, looking W

Fresno First Street gas analyzer instrument racks, looking N

Fresno First Street TEOMs, looking N

Fresno First Street, looking N

Fresno First Street, looking NW

Fresno First Street, looking W

Fresno First Street, looking SW

Fresno First Street, looking S

Fresno First Street, looking SE

Fresno First Street, looking E

Fresno First Street, looking NE

Fresno First Street Area

Fresno First Street Site

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