http://www.azdeq.gov/environ/air/download/The_Phoenix_Report.pdf"One report widely circulated on the internet is called "The Phoenix Report" dated May 1, 2008. The Phoenix Report shows extremely high levels of aluminum and barium in the tested sample. ADEQ reviewed this report and found discrepancies and problems with the report which challenge its accuracy and/or authenticity.
The Phoenix Report
The Phoenix Report as seen in the above link provides unspecified monitoring locations, sampling methods, quality assurance procedures, and time (sampled over 28 days). Nor does it identify any source for the information. Additionally, it shows impossibly high levels of both aluminum and barium. The report shows aluminum at a level of 12.8 million parts per billion (ppb). Based upon the molecular weight of aluminum, we can convert this ppb value to a milligram per cubic meter value (mg/m3) which is 14,134. This value can be converted as grams per cubic meter (g/m3) which results in approximately 14. To illustrate how impossible this measured value of aluminum is, it is worth noting that the weight of an aluminum can is approximately 14 grams. To visualize a cubic meter of air, consider that a standard elevator has approximately 8 cubic meters of air inside - now picture 8 aluminum cans dispersed in it.
Air quality monitoring data collected by ADEQ contradicts the Phoenix Report. The department collects air quality monitoring data at various locations in Maricopa County and throughout the state. A regulated pollutant which the department monitors is particulate matter with a diameter less than 10 microns (PM10). PM10 not only includes aluminum but it is also comprised of other metals and compounds. To again illustrate the impossibility of the Phoenix Report, the highest reading of PM10 ever recorded in Phoenix during one of our worst dust storms (an example of which can be seen in figure 1 below) was 6,348 ug/m3 (6.348 mg/m3), and as mentioned in the previous sentence this value includes aluminum, barium, and many other metals. This reading of PM10 as a worst case scenario is still 2,000 times less than what is shown in the Phoenix Report. Consequently, the Phoenix Report cannot be considered credible.
Additionally, ADEQ monitors finer particulates called PM2.5, which is particulate matter with a diameter less than 2.5 microns. The PM2.5data is further speciated to its individual components including metals. The following graph (click on link below) shows the 2013 data for various metals measured at one of Maricopa County's monitors called the Phoenix Supersite."
https://www.azdeq.gov/environ/air/contrails_not_chemtrails.html
