How Polluted is Your Area?

I'm lucky, I be good. Of course, that is the one of the main reasons I choose to live where I do!

The Dallas/Fort Worth MetroPlex is one of the worst in the nation. Almost every day this summer was code red, some code orange, and believe it or not we had a code purple. But the sky remains blue and clear so what is poisoning the air here cannot be seen or smelled. Unlike LA where the pollution mixes with fog to create smog and in D.C. the pollution is very bad in the summer. In Washington the smog does show though, I guess it is the humidity, the sick thing about D.C. is there is no industry there all of the pollutants come from cars.

Hmm, I smell somethin' allright, but I don't think it is the pollution.

I'm with Bill, though, which is also why I live here!

Max's dad, If my memory serves me, the Quad Cities is the only air quality non-attainment area in the state of Iowa. I'll go see if I can find out more information.

Swimpy: You are correct maam, but I live on the other side of the Great River, dontchaknow!

Probably the MOST polluted in the nation: Houston, TX.

We go back and forth with LA. Bet the exacta.

I used to work near one of the Superfund's top sites, a place where a nearby subdivision reported a high incident of birth defects that was traceable to some chemical leeching into the water table.

That's when I started drinking bottled water exclusively--it was about 10 or so years ago.

Talk about area pollution. I can remember in Chicago, when the Stock Yards were in full operation. What a stink in the air and what a red fog hung over the South Side in those days. Peer out the window of a bus, down by 35th and State and look straight into the eyes of cattle being driven to the yards. Wow! What glorious summer days! Heat and stink!

What an odor!

Remember, the Indiana steel mills were also in operation at that time, puffing away, pouring forth air contaminants by the zillions.


Cows and steel!

Nice clean air here folks.
Little country,little capital.Thousands of healthy cyclists.

Well, my area appears to be at greatest risk from "Atmospheric Ozone Depletion". We don't even HAVE a "Superfund" site! Of course, this county only has one stoplight, and that's over 25 miles from me, only been installed for a bit more than a year ... and spends most of its time blinking red in all four directions. There are lots of reasons we love it here.



timber

Mass is pretty good...as are all the neastern seaboard states. Must be the air currents.

I live in a spa - visitors have to pay here for breathing!

(Honestly, it's called "Kurtaxe" = a visitor's tax in spas coastal ressorts and similar.)

Walter
You live in a spa??? Don't you get all white and wrinkly after a bit?

It can get a bit polluted here - Sydney sort of sits in a basin.

The big problem at present is the bushfires. The wind is keeping the smoke out of the city area today, but if the wind changes, we get some awful pollution - and some weird coloured skies.

Bring on the rain!!!

I fortunately live in Canada & picked this place back in 1963. It is the Okanagan Valley of B.C. & is basically at the south central part of this province. Basically a farming community of orchardists, some cattle, & lumbering. Could not stand city life I was born & brought up in so moved lst to Banff, Alberta where I set up a sport shop for mountaineering & skiing then moved out to hear some 9 yrs later as the tourists sort of went against my grain.

Hmmm. In another discussion, we discussed profiles. What you just wrote would be a great profile entry. Just copy it, go to profile as described, and paste it in.

Edited for spelling.

Welcome aboard Smitty!

Not that bad in Seattle, in spite of recurring efforts to squash any sort of viable public transit. I think the only way to get it done is to have everybody pay for their own stuff, which means we pay for our monorail -- and all those rural folks get to pay for their own highways.

We'll see who's crying then...

The Land of Enchantment is pretty good. Suits me up and down. The snow today on the Sandias is down to around 7000 ft, but normally we can see for fifty miles. Compared to where we lived in L.A., this is pristine.

We should have had snow at the 7,000' level for some time & also a bit on the roads, but no snow up at the hills top altitudes or on the hwys or streets that stuck. True a bit might hit in the evening, but by noon it would be gone--yet even that was rare. Strange for this part of the Okanagan Valley of B.C. Cdn. Skiing people are frothing at the bit but worst is what might happen come Spring for we draw our water from resevoirs up in the hills & not from the lakes.

BillW, a sort of belated 'thank you' for I feel I can enjoy this site. Still you know it is SO NICE not to find all the foul mouthed people yattering away here!!!!!!!!