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The association gave
Eugene/Springfield an F and ranked
the area as the fifth-worst polluted
metropolitan area nationwide in the
short-term particle pollution study but
gave the county excellent marks for its
low ozone pollution.
Particle pollu
tion refers to a
combination of
fine solids and
aerosols that are
suspended in the
air and can trigger
reactions ranging
from coughing
and wheezing to
heart attacks and
death, according
to the report.
However, the
report's conclu
sions have proven
somewhat con
troversial.
Kim Metzler,
spokeswoman for
Lane Regional Air
Pollution Author
lty, saia me re
sults did not reflect the metropolitan
area's actual pollution. The organiza
tion is responsible for measuring Eu
gene's air quality.
"The information in that report is
wrong," Metzler said. "(The ALA)
took the pollution samples from
Oakridge and they didn't just lump
it with the Eugene/Springfield results
— they used it as the Eugene/Spring
field results."
Metzler said results are probably
very accurate for Oakridge, a small
town in Lane County with about
1,200 households. Metzler said
Oakridge often has high particulate
pollution as a result of its location in a
geographic "bowl" of mountains, and
because many homes are heated with
wood-buming stoves.
That s not to say that Oakridge is
the fifth-most short-term particulate
polluted city in the country; it's just
that most small towns like it don't
have their air quality tested," she said.
Oregon American Lung Association
employee Patrick Callahan agreed
with Metzler that the results were in
correctly reported.
"The data is partially incorrect in
that the Oakridge data was lumped in
the Eugene/Springfield area and
skewed the results so that it didn't ap
pear that the area had the clean air it
claimed to have," he said.
This year marked the first time the
ALA included assessments of particle
pollution in the State of the Air re
port, which is published annually.
The report, which covers 2000 to
2002, provides the first specific coun
ty-level information on the presence
of particle pollution because of ac
cessibility to a monitoring network
set up in the late 1990s.
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is microscopic and not visible. But the
particles form a haze that hangs over
polluted cities and blurs the spread of
sunlight in an area. The ALA defined
"short-term" as exposure to high par
ticle pollution levels over a period of a
few hours to a few days, but noted that
even short-term exposure can cause
health issues.
"First and foremost, short-term ex
The information in
that report is wrong.
... (The American Lung
Association) took the
pollution samples from
Oakridge and they didn't
just lump it with the
Eugene/Springfield
field results — they
used it as the
Eugene/Springfield
results."
Kim Metzler
Lane Regional Air Pollution Authority
spokeswoman
posure to particle
pollution can
cause premature
death," according
to the report.
Deaths can oc
cur on the day
particle levels are
high or within
one to two
months afterward.
The report stated
these deaths
would not have
occurred without
the pollution.
Metzler said
Eugene does
sometimes have
ozone air pollu
tion issues in the
summer.
in general, me
air is pretty good in Eugene," she
said. "We meet the Environmental
Protection Agency standards, but in
the summer when the weather gets
dry and the temperature gets up
around 95 degrees or above, then we
come close to the ozone pollution
limit, or we bump up against it for a
day or two. The air stops moving and
the pollution stays."
Ozone, an extremely reactive gas,
is the primary ingredient of smog air
pollution and is harmful to breathe.
The gas attacks lung tissue by react
ing with it chemically, according to
the ALA.
The raw ingredients for ozone are
produced primarily when fossil fuels
are burned or when fossil fuel-based
chemicals evaporate. These molecules
combine and form ozone when they
come in contact with both heat and
sunlight, according to the report.
Jennifer Boudin, spokeswoman for
the Eugene office of the Oregon De
partment of Environmental Quality,
said Lane Regional Air Pollution Au
thority is the expert about air pollu
tion and air quality in Eugene.
"They would know best," she said.
"They gather the data for this area."
While Eugene is the second largest
city in Oregon, it does not require
emissions testing for automobiles or
vehicles with internal combustion en
gines, a result of the city's good air,
Boudin said.
"The reason they have those emis
sion testing programs in Medford and
Portland is because those cities have
had air quality issues," she said. "Eu
gene's air has been clean enough that
it hasn't been a factor."
Contact the business/science/
technology reporter
at stevenneuman@dailyemerald.com.
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