A monitoring plan should answer: what to measure, where, how often, and what action follows.
Key points
- Ambient air quality at boundary locations + sensitive receptors.
- Stack emission testing for key sources and process variations.
- Wastewater testing at inlet/outlet with flow tracking.
- Noise monitoring at boundary and occupational points.
- Calibration and chain-of-custody documentation for defensible data.
Set alert thresholds and corrective actions—data without action is just storage.