Category: Air Quality

The Division of Air Quality (DAQ) is encouraging consumers to consider cleaner cars when they purchase their next vehicle. Along the Wasatch Front, vehicles contribute over half of the emissions that form PM2.5.

Air Quality Conditions New Air Quality Alert System Action alerts and health guidance based on real-time monitoring data. Air Quality Current Conditions Real-time monitoring data, updated hourly, on current pollution levels in nine Utah counties. Utah Air App for Android Download Free download of the air quality app. Utah Air App for iOS Download Free download of the air quality

Many people are unaware that reducing the time a vehicle spends idling can make a big difference in both air quality and fuel costs.

Idling can be bad for your health. While children, the elderly, and people with respiratory ailments are most vulnerable to the pollutants from vehicle exhaust, these emissions affect everybody.

Idling your vehicle gets you nowhere. It increases our dependence on petroleum, reduces the fuel economy of your vehicle, costs you money, emits pollutants, and wastes precious natural resources.

The Small Business Environmental Assistance Program helps small businesses with permitting assistance, emission calculations, technical issues, regulator interpretation, and pollution prevention techniques. Eleanor Divver ([email protected]), Business Assistance Coordinator: (801) 536-0091 Call Toll Free: (800) 270-4440 TDD Number: (800) 346-4128 or 711 Small Business Technical Assistance Technical Support Emission Calculations Pollution Prevention Techniques Technical Issues Understanding the Regulations and How They Relate to You Onsite

NESHAPs are regulations that regulate specific processes, like dry cleaners, that use specific chemicals, like perchloroethylene, called a hazardous air pollutant. If you can change your chemicals to a chemical that is not one on the list of HAPs you can avoid the rule. Below are the most commonly used small business NESHAPs with customized information for Utah. For a list

Why Do We Need Models? The Division of Air Quality regularly measures the concentration of specific air pollutants at selected monitoring locations. However, the division also needs the ability to make future projections of air pollution levels. Computer models are a relatively inexpensive and expedient means of providing this air quality information. For example, models can be used to predict the

Utah Division of Air Quality has used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for air quality modeling studies since 1993 by creating its own database of relevant spatial layers. This data helps in the creation of emission inventories for ozone and fine particulate modeling. This is done through the creation of demographic surrogates so that county-wide emissions can be further refined and

To report a smoking vehicle, contact your county using the phone numbers and forms listed here. Cache County: (435) 792-6570 Davis County: (801) 525-4975 Utah County: (801) 851-7600 Weber/Morgan Health Department: (801) 399-7140 Forms Report a Smoking Vehicle: Cache County Web Form Report a Smoking Vehicle: Davis County Web Form Report a Smoking Vehicle: Utah County Web Form Report a Smoking Vehicle: Weber/Morgan Counties

Air quality exceptional events are unusual or naturally occurring events that can affect air quality but are not reasonably controllable using techniques tribal, state or local air agencies may implement in order to attain and maintain the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. Exceptional events are events for which the normal planning and regulatory process established by the Clean Air Act

The Division on Air Quality would like to help Utah residents celebrate safely by reminding everyone of the potential for high concentrations of smoke associated with fireworks displays. This smoke is largely particulate matter (PM). In prior years, DAQ has monitored extremely high concentrations of both PM10 and PM2.5 (the fine and the very fine fractions of PM) associated with fireworks displays. It

In dry areas like Utah, windblown dust may be a significant air pollution problem. From spring through fall, unusually high winds can combine with dry surface conditions to result in dust storms. These dust storms can lead to extremely high levels of particulate matter (PM) in the air. Much of this PM is small enough to be considered harmful to

Utah’s statewide emissions inventories show how much pollution comes from different sources across the state and help Utah track air‑quality progress under its clean‑air plans and federal requirements. Our statewide emissions inventory files for criteria pollutants and hazardous air pollutants are available below. Explore the inventoriesBrowse inventory files below.Browse visually with charts, tables, and maps in the Inventory Interactive Dashboard

The air emissions inventory is one means used by the state to assess the level of pollutants released into the air from various sources. For the 1996 Statewide Emissions Inventory, two groups of pollutants are estimated by emissions source category: A group of common air pollutants regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are called criteria air pollutants and a

The air emissions inventory is one means used by the state to assess the level of pollutants released into the air from various sources. For the 1999 Statewide Emissions Inventory, two groups of pollutants are estimated by emissions source category: A group of common air pollutants regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are called criteria air pollutants and a