From my review, it seems as though levels of the Vanadium, Nickel, Toluene and Benzo compounds are deteriorating over time. awesome!

Also, your reporting limits are often higher than your sample result.

You raise some excellent points about the display of our PM data. We are currently working on improvements to the site and your input will help us make our information more accessible to the public.

The color-coded table you referred to in your comment is a table showing daily Air Quality Index (AQI) levels for coarse particle pollution, also called PM10. This data is from monitors in use in Louisiana. We also have near-real time AQI information available on fine particle pollution for Gulf Coast states – including Mississippi, Alabama and Florida That information is available at http://gulfcoast.airnowtech.org/, or you can link to it from EPA’s BP Spill Response page at http://www.epa.gov/bpspill/air.html#realtime. In addition, forecasts for the next days particle pollution and ozone levels are available at http://www.airnow.gov

You mentioned some PM 10 readings in the code orange range at one of the Grande Isle, LA, monitors. The elevated levels at the Grande Isle 08 monitor have been attributed to windy conditions and beach cleaning that combined to stir up sand along the beach where the monitor is located. Other nearby monitors did not report similar readings, so it appears to be isolated to this particular location.

As part of our effort to determine whether pollutants from the spill may pose health concerns for residents and visitors in the Gulf Coast region we are monitoring the air on shore for several pollutants associated with oil. Results of these samples can’t be posted in real time, because the samples require lab analysis. We have a team of experts examining the results as they come in, and so far, levels have been below levels that would pose long-term health problems. These data can be found on EPA’s BP Spill Response Air Data page. We will continue to work with local officials and the media to inform citizens if we detect air pollution at levels that would require immediate action.

Again, we thank you for your input and we will continue to improve the access to our real-time monitoring and air quality data.

I wanted your help to know that whether this can work in cleaning the BP Spill and if yes, can you help to inform the concerned authorities about it so they can take action on cleaning the water.

It is absolutely wrong to let us think it is safe here if it isn’t, and according to the data tables it clearly isn’t in certain areas. There are thousands of people here -children, moms, dads, elderly -that need to know if and when it is unsafe to be outside. We also need to know if we need to move permanently. It is the EPA’s responsibility and duty to report to us, in real-time, if the conditions here are hazardous to our health -both short-term and long-term.