Air Quality

Love My Air

The Love My Air program expands air-quality monitoring by using low-cost, cutting-edge air pollution sensor technology, equipped with solar, battery storage, and data connectivity. This program aims to inform, educate, and create changes that will allow all of us to love our air.

Air Monitors

Air monitors measure for a common air pollutant - particulate matter (PM2.5). This is a very fine particle, about 30-times smaller than a strand of hair. PM2.5 comes from vehicle emissions, construction, industries, forest fires, residential burning, and agricultural burning.

View local Love My Air monitors.

Air quality and health

This particle in the air can travel deep inside the lungs.

Short-term health effects
Eye, nose, throat, and lung irritation; coughing; sneezing; runny nose; and shortness of breath.

More severe health problems
Asthma and heart disease can also come from bad air quality. Doctors also say these particles can affect children’s brain development--making it harder for children to learn.

Limit  outdoor activity on bad air quality days

If the air quality is bad outside, staying indoors may reduce some of your exposure. If there are a lot of indoor sources (see below where particles come from), you might be better by going outside to help reduce indoor exposure. Some ways to reduce exposure are to limit indoor and outdoor activities that produce fine particles such as burning candles indoors or open burning outdoors and avoid strenuous activity in areas when fine particle levels are high.

Air pollutants

Indoor sources of fine particles
Tobacco smoke, cooking (e.g., frying, sautéing, and broiling), burning candles or oil lamps, and operating fireplaces and fuel-burning space heaters (e.g., kerosene heaters).

Outdoor sources of fine particles
Car, truck, bus, off-road vehicle (e.g., construction equipment and snowmobile) exhausts, and other operations that involve the burning of fuels such as wood, heating oil or coal, and natural sources such as forest and grass fires. Fine particles also form from the reaction of gases or droplets in the atmosphere from sources such as power plants.

Local Partners

Adams County Health Department is working with school and parks and recreation partners to collect local air quality data and incorporate air quality education, communication, and programming around our community. These partners make up the network referred to as the Colorado Local Entity Air Network (CLEAN).  Thank you to our many partners.

Additional Air Quality Resources

• CDC Air Quality Index
• CDPHE Air Quality 
• EPA AirNow and Fire and Smoke Map
• Download the EPA’s AirNow app from your phone’s app store
• Clearing the Air Podcast

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