|
The Air Quality Index and Pictures
This page contains an Air Quality Color Guide and its relation to the Air Quality Index (AQI).
Also you will find pictures of some of the sites maintained by our Ambient Air Monitoring Staff.
The Air Quality Color Guide
The Air Quality Index
Good: 0 to 50
No health impacts are expected.
Moderate: 51 to 100
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting prolonged outdoor exertion.
Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups: 101 to 150
Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.
Unhealthy: 151 to 200
Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should avoid prolonged outdoor exertion; everyone else, especially children, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.
Very unhealthy: 201 to 300
Same as above
Sandy Nicoll, a long time employee is servicing a PM10 sampler on the Belle Glade Health Department roof.
PM10 sampler and two PM2.5 samplers on roof of the Delray Beach Health Center.
Ozone trailer on the A.G. Holley Hospital campus in Lantana.
Inside the A.G. Holley ozone trailer
This is an outside view of our PBI Airport trailer. On the tower is our "Green Monster". Otherwise know as a pollen and moldspore sampler. Samples are retrieved from the sampler three days a week. Below is a closer look of the pollen and moldspore sampler.
Inside our PBI Airport trailer.
The Air Quality Index and Pictures
|