If you’ve ever wondered who or what is dirtying the air in your neighborhood, the Air Pollution Control District (APCD) can show you.
Whether it’s a nearby landfill, autobody shop, dry cleaner, gas station, or winery, the agency has a newly updated map showing all of the stationary sources of air pollution permitted in Santa Barbara County.
Company histories, active permits and applications, and 10 years of annual reports, inspections, and notices of violations are all included. Also on the map is real-time air-quality-index data from each of the agency’s air-quality-monitoring stations — on Wednesday, for example, the City of Santa Barbara was in the yellow zone for fine particulate matter, meaning the level of health concern was “moderate.”…