Community Air Action Planning, or CAAP, is a new pilot program led by DEQ’s Air Quality Division. This pilot program takes a place-based approach to improving communities’ air quality knowledge and capacity for collective action. DEQ worked with a steering committee of advocates, community-based organizations, and state and local government representatives to design the program’s framework.
Over the next two years, DEQ will lead community-scale monitoring efforts and facilitate capacity-building initiatives in four communities: Chiloquin, McMinnville, Medford, and the Gresham neighborhoods of Rockwood and Wilkes East. The first community-scale monitoring effort will begin in Rockwood and Wilkes, starting with a kickoff meeting in November.
Learn more about CAAP on the program’s web page and listen to a recent radio interview with Ryan Bellinson, Air Quality Public Affairs, and a community leader from one of the selected communities. View the CAAP story map to learn more about the program.
By Ryan Bellinson, DEQ Air Quality Public Affairs