There are opportunities to win an Amazon gift card once it’s completed
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s Air Quality Division and the Center for Marketing and Consumer Insights at Oregon State University are asking for your help in better understanding how home heating emissions affect air quality. They have opened the 2024 Residential Wood Heating Survey so those living across the state can answer questions about how they heat their homes, the availability of other heating sources and their attitudes towards them. You can enter a raffle to win a $50 Amazon gift card once you complete the survey.
DEQ and OSU have worked on this issue in the past. After a similar survey was conducted three years ago, the two groups issued the results in a report titled “2021 Oregon Residential Wood Combustion Survey.” More than 4,200 people living in Oregon participated.
The 2024 and 2021 surveys build on previous studies conducted by the Survey Research Lab at Portland State University in 2014 and 2008. The survey is intended to help OSU researchers to understand residential wood heating specifically, while DEQ uses the data as the basis for evaluating statewide emissions from residential wood burning. More information, including resources for financial assistance to help replace your wood stove, can be found on DEQ’s Wood Stoves web page.
The 2024 Residential Wood Heating Survey will be open for at least the next two weeks, although it does not currently have a specific close date. Be sure to complete the questions and apply for the Amazon gift cards now.
If you have questions, please contact DEQ Senior Emissions Inventory Analyst David Broderick at david.broderick@deq.oregon.gov or cmci@bus.oregonstate.edu.
The State of Oregon thanks you!
By David Broderick, senior emissions inventory analyst, and Susan C. Mills, public affairs specialist