LAKE COUNTY >> Particulate monitors have been set up and are running at Cobb Elementary School, Middletown High School and Coyote Valley Elementary School. Numbers on those monitors have been good, except for an occasional divergence into moderate air quality during commute times when there are more cars, trucks and busses on the road.
Particulate monitors demonstrate attainment or non-attainment of national and state ambient air quality standards.
Because of Lake County’s ongoing exceptional air quality, the impact of the fires and clean-up equipment has had minimal post-fire impact throughout the community, According to Douglas Gearhart, Lake County Air Pollution Control Officer. American Lung Association statistics place Lake County’s air No. 1 as the cleanest county in the nation for the past three years for annual particulate average concentrations.
