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Selected Images posted 2004.03.31.

The original AQMD map, in color.
Shows all emissions sources, including diesel.
Shows estimated cancer risk by area,
Cancer risks are in cases per million people
per 70 year lifetime.

Sierra Club re-illustrated copy of the original AQMD map
based on raw data provided by the AQMD.
Shows all emissions sources, including diesel.
Shows estimated cancer risk by area,
Cancer risks are in cases per million people
per 70 year lifetime.
Shows full scale, from 0 to 5800 cases per million,
in 300 cases per million increments.
300 cases per million is the Federal standard.
Numbers (1 to 20) show up to how many times over
the federal standard the air is in an area.

Same as above.
Showing harbor-area detail.

The Point Fermin neighborhood is located
in the square marked "11"
(up to 11 times over the federal standard)
just above and to the right of the words
"San Pedro"
This regional map shows Southern California's air quality without diesel emissions.

View of an exceptionally clear day,
Taken from the lighthouse in Point Fermin Park.

 

May, year unknown (mid to late 1990s).

View of the Long Beach Freeway
crowded with trucks traveling
from the port to inland destinations.

Image taken in May 2001.

Click to see entire panoramic
(the picture above is a small portion of it)

Panoramic image of low smog ceiling in Los Angeles Basin

This image is taken from a hill in San Pedro, March 2004. The height of the smog ceiling is about the same as that of the buildings in downtown Los Angeles, visible toward the left side of the image.
Black and white version of the original MATES-II map
for all emissions sources, as published in the
executive summary of the MATES-II report.