Amador County – The Sacramento regional Air Alert district last week announced the end of the 17th “Spare the Air” season in the region.

The District’s weekly Air Alert said the Spare The Air season has come to a close, and “efforts to reduce emissions have contributed to our lower ozone pollution readings during the summer and helped improve air quality in the Sacramento region.”

The District recommended taking a bus one day a week, bringing a lunch to work every other day, and purchasing an electric lawn mower, reducing trips throughout the summer, or completely staying out of motor vehicles on a Spare The Air day as ways to help decrease ozone pollution.

The Air Alert program, beginning on Nov. 1, is now giving the daily air quality forecasts for particulate matter, which is the “pollutant of concern during the fall and winter months.” The district urged people to continue to pay attention to air pollution levels in communities.

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