Understanding Air Quality: How the MaineTracking Network Helps Keep You Informed

Air quality plays a crucial role in our overall health. Understanding how air pollution affects us can help individuals and communities make informed decisions. The MaineTracking Network is unique in that it combines and standardizes data from multiple programs, allowing us to see the connections between environmental factors and health.

New this week is a suite of interactive maps and dashboards including:

Now Available - New Public Water Supply Data

Access to clean drinking water is important for every Mainer. The Maine CDC Drinking Water Program is dedicated to ensuring the water you receive from public water systems is safe. To better understand the quality of the water provided by public water systems, the MaineTracking Network released a set of interactive dashboards that display a range of information, such as PFAS testing results, lead in school water testing results, and 25 years of testing data for select contaminants.

Carbon Monoxide Metadata: Near Real-time Emergency Department (ED) Visits

Origin:

Near real-time emergency department visit data for potential carbon monoxide exposures are from the Maine CDC Infectious Disease Program’s syndromic surveillance system.

Dates Available

2017 to date

Geographic Resolution:

State, County

Abstract:

The Maine EPHT program receives daily counts of emergency department visits for carbon monoxide exposures from syndromic surveillance data collected by the Infectious Disease Program at the Maine CDC.

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