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Air Quality Report

Have you ever wondered about the quality of air you breathe ? The Real-time, Affordable, Multi-Pollutant (RAMP) air quality monitor measures carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), ozone (O3), and fine particulate mass (PM2.5). It was developed by CMU’s Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies (CAPS) and SenSevere, a local start-up.  Bradford Woods …

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Trees Tame Stormwater

  Our Number One Natural Resource in Bradford Woods – our Trees  -work in concert with other stormwater controls to produce a comprehensive solution to rainfall interception and runoff  The benefits to stormwater management cannot be overstated. The tree canopy can intercept from 10% to 40% of rainfall, depending upon the species, the time of …

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Bradford Woods Ranked 3rd best suburb by Pittsburgh Magazine

Pittsburgh magazine in its October 2019 issue ranked the borough of Bradford Woods as the 3rd out of 127  suburbs in the Pittsburgh area, .   The article The feature article can be read at the following link –https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/by-the-numbers-ranking-pittsburghs-suburbs/. “ “Ranking Suburbia”  as the article’s author  Mark Houser  states, ” measured a host of quantifiable statistics …

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