Live Footage From the Breathe Cams
Take a visual tour of Monongahela Valley pollution. Scroll through recent footage that captured emission events from the three Mon Valley industrial plants on high-definition cameras.
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Take a visual tour of Monongahela Valley pollution. Scroll through recent footage that captured emission events from the three Mon Valley industrial plants on high-definition cameras.
In this clip notice the different types of emission in each stack. On the right and left main stack these emissions are full of steam and have heavy white smoke. The middle stack has no steam and you can see a light transparent smoke. This middle smoke is full of particulates and potentially harmful materials.
These stacks may not look like they are emitting dense clouds of pollutants we can clearly see a constant release of emissions. With no steam mixed in we are seeing emissions with little to no mixed in water vapor; which helps create those large white clouds of smoke.
White smoke of varying opacity is shown here. Notice the change over time of the smokes color.
Steady spires of smoke, Steam and fire seem coming from the Irvin facility
CREATE Lab’s Breathe Cams provide high resolution views of three industrial plants in the Monongahela Valley communities of Clairton, Braddock and West Mifflin as well as a panoramic view of the Mon Valley. Breathe Cams also provide views of three neighborhoods in the City of Pittsburgh: Downtown, Oakland, and the North Shore. All of these cameras capture visual images of our air so that we can understand the air we breathe.