Workers review outputs from a vibration monitor, one of the project’s many environmental monitors.
With new upgrades to its environmental monitoring processes, the New NY Bridge project team has enhanced its ability to publish noise, air quality and vibration levels to the project website every minute from its 12 monitoring stations in Westchester and Rockland counties. The full spectrum of readings and explanations of their purpose is available to the public on NewNYBridge.com.
Making real-time information available every minute of every day is part of the New NY Bridge team’s commitment to being the most open, transparent and inclusive infrastructure project in state history. You can view each of the environmental monitoring stations’ records here 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The monitoring stations utilize a variety of highly sophisticated devices to collect data. Vibration monitors use accelerometers that detect ground movement in inches per second. Air quality monitors detect emissions called particulate matter by utilizing laser instruments. Noise monitors are configured to measure sound levels in ways that mimic human hearing.
The enhancements increase the frequency of noise, air and vibration monitor updates on the project website. Now, every monitor refreshes its information every minute of every day. With more than 30 different monitors on the project site, no fewer than 40,000 environmental updates are shared every day.
Learn more about the equipment and technical aspects of the project’s environmental monitors here.
You can report concerns here or call the project hotline, 24 hours a day, seven days a week: 1-855-TZBRIDGE (1-855-892-7434).
