Air Quality Program

Air quality is an important part of your immediate and long-term health. Your activities have a direct influence on the air that we breathe everyday. When you or your neighbors burn trash, wood, or waste products, it releases millions of fine particles and other toxins into the air.  These particulate matter include solid particulates and suspended liquid matter that is 2.5 micrometers or smaller (PM2.5). As a reference, the period at the end of this sentence contains over a thousand particles.