temporary (episodic) controls for ozone

Mecklenburg County citizens have been exposed routinely to unhealthy ozone levels for over 20 years every summer and was designated an a "non-attainment" area by the USEPA on April 15, 2004. Even though ozone levels have improved and are predicted to continue to improve, Mecklenburg County    ozone levels remain 15% over the national health based ozone standard. Ozone especially hurts a sensitive population of the young and elderly representing 220,000 people in Mecklenburg County.  

We can reduce ozone levels, the number of code orange and red days (episodes) by synchronizing our emission reduction activities with the predicted ozone exceedance days  - cutting pollution when it counts!

                    "2006 Ozone Plan Development Tool" 
Temporary Ozone Control Measures Menus and Calculation spreadsheet (File size ~3 mb). If you have difficulty opening this file online, right click on the link and select Save Target As. You can choose where you would like to save the file. You can now open the file using Microsoft Excel.

To lean more on - Cutting Pollution When It Counts -  click on the links below. 

Click here to view the joint Mecklenburg County Air Quality Commission and Mecklenburg County Air Quality  Recommendation 

To view Public Comments on "Cutting Pollution When It Counts" click here 

To view a summary of the 2004  "Cutting Pollution When It Counts"  Pilot Program click here

Click here to view the Proposed Mecklenburg County Draft Ozone Episodic Rule dated August 30, 2004

To view a graph depicting the measured and modeled Ozone compliance values for Charlotte, click here

Cutting Pollution When It Counts!  Click here for the full proposal

Charlotte Region Ozone Non-Attainment Map click here