COLORADO SPRINGS – — Breathe easy, residents of Colorado Springs/El Paso County. The air you inhale is among the best in the U.S., according to one measure in a report issued Wednesday by the American Lung Association.
Colorado Springs ranked in the top 15 “cleanest cities” in the U.S., as gauged by average year-round and 24-hour levels of particle pollution, “the most dangerous and deadly widespread air pollutant in America,” according to the lung association. Particle pollution includes ash, soot, diesel exhaust, dust and acids.
Colorado Springs also came in 7th for having the lowest level of year-round, fine-particle pollution, based on data for 2008-10.
“It says controlled measures in the region are helping: dust-control plans, street-sweeping, making sure point sources, like the Drake Power Plant, are in compliance,” said Tom Gonzales, director of El Paso County Public Health’s Environmental Health Division.
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