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Historic Ozone Air Quality Trends


Number of Basin-Days* Exceeding Health Standard Levels
Annual Basin-Days* Exceeding
 

Year

State Standard
(1-hour average
> 0.09 ppm)

Federal Standard
(1-hour average
> 0.12 ppm)

Federal Standard
(8-hour average
³ 0.085 ppm)

Health Advisory
(1-hour average
³ 0.15 ppm)

Stage 1 Episode
(1-hour average
³ 0.20 ppm)

Stage 2 Episode
(1-hour average
³ 0.35 ppm)

Basin
Maximum
(ppm)

1976

237

194

206

166

102

7

0.38

1977

242

208

223

184

121

11

0.39

1978

217

187

200

173

116

23

0.43

1979

226

191

204

169

120

17

0.45

1980

210

167

186

152

101

15

0.41

1981

222

180

198

159

99

5

0.37

1982

191

149

168

121

63

2

0.40

1983

190

152

169

138

84

3

0.39

1984

207

173

194

146

97

0

0.34

1985

206

158

188

136

83

7

0.39

1986

217

164

194

140

79

1

0.35

1987

196

160

182

130

66

0

0.33

1988

216

178

197

144

77

1

0.35

1989

211

157

186

120

54

0

0.34

1990

184

130

163

107

41

0

0.33

1991

183

130

162

100

47

0

0.32

1992

191

143

176

109

41

0

0.30

1993

185

124

170

92

24

0

0.28

1994

165

118

152

96

23

0

0.30

1995

154

98

127

59

14

0

0.26

1996

151

90

132

53

7

0

0.24

1997

141

68

127

28

1

0

0.21

1998

114

62

111

43

12

0

0.24

1999

118

41

103

12

0

0

0.17

2000

123

40

106

17

0

0

0.18

2001

121

36

93

15

0

0

0.19

2002 118 49 99 18 0 0 0.167
2003 133 68 119 36 1 0 0.216
2004 111 28 90 4 0 0 0.163
2005 102 30 84 11 0 0 0.182
2006 102 35 86 10 0 0 0.175

ppm = Parts per million parts of air, by volume.
* Basin-days represents the number of days a standard was exceeded anywhere in the South Coast Air Basin.

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