Smog in Chino Hills? (Los Angeles, Riverside: new home, good schools, live in)

[JennyEvans]

My husband is being relocated to the Inland Empire and we know almost nothing about the area. We have three young kids, so we're kind of concerned about air quality. A friend of ours swears there's no smog in Chino Hills--anybody know if this is true? Any insights would be really appreciated. Jenny

[frcal]

Smog, most (80%) of the inland empire is of smog during sunny days from the metro area of LA. Some spring days are beautiful and some fall days are great. We do get the June gloom but usually clears up by noon. The smog makes for such beautiful sunsets during the summer or when it warms up in the 80-90's. To answer you, there is diffinite smog in the area.

[Steve M]

Chino definately has smog, there was an article in our local newspaper (Press Enterprise I think) that said the area around Claremont, near Chino had some of the worst air of the Inland Empire. All that smog just moves from LA thorough our valley down to the Inland Empire - and Chino, Claremont, Ontario is right in the way. I believe some cleaner air in Riverside/Inland Empire is closer to Murrieta and Temecula.

Steve
Primemax Realty

[jeffncandace]

[quote=Primemax;839137]Chino definately has smog, there was an article in our local newspaper (Press Enterprise I think) that said the area around Claremont, near Chino had some of the worst air of the Inland Empire. All that smog just moves from LA thorough our valley down to the Inland Empire - and Chino, Claremont, Ontario is right in the way. I believe some cleaner air in Riverside/Inland Empire is closer to Murrieta and Temecula.

Steve
Primemax Realty

And you are correct! I just moved last year from Murrieta, having lived in the area since 2000. I also lived in Redlands back in 1999. There is NO comparison with smog levels in Temecula/Murrieta compared to the rest of the I.E. On most days we could look to our north and SEE the brown air, while it was perfectly clear where we lived. If air is your concern, check these towns out.

[the point]

Smells like manure day and night

[jeffncandace]

Originally Posted by the point

Smells like manure day and night

Are you saying Temecula does? I can honestly say that's totally untrue. Norco, now, that's another story...

[Educatorspeakingtruth]

Originally Posted by JennyEvans

My husband is being relocated to the Inland Empire and we know almost nothing about the area. We have three young kids, so we're kind of concerned about air quality. A friend of ours swears there's no smog in Chino Hills--anybody know if this is true? Any insights would be really appreciated. Jenny

Air Quality Poor in Southern California?????

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Well,
Let us all look at the facts. Here is what the American Lung Association has to say:

Rankings - American Lung Association site (http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=50752 - broken link)

Scroll down to the middle of the page where it ranks U.S. Counties Most Polluted by Annual Air Particle Pollution.
1) Riverside, Ca
2) San Bernardino, Ca
3) Los Angeles, Ca

8) ORANGE, CA

You decide. Is the Air Quality poor in So Cal (even Orange County, the O.C. ! ! !) ? Hmmmmm?

[Paula Lynn]

Move closer to the water, the cleaner the air is ........

[jftinla]

Lived in Chino Hills for over a decade. Beautiful NEW / FAMILY ORIENTED city. New homes, good schools, many parks. Very diverse population as is most of southern california. Access to many freeways.

[JerZ]

Originally Posted by jeffncandace

Are you saying Temecula does? I can honestly say that's totally untrue. Norco, now, that's another story...

LOL!!!!!!!!!! My in-laws live in Norco. I can vouch for that.

Yep, it's very smoggy. Strangely, though, I don't think the smog detracts from the beauty--I saw someone else defended the beauty of the area. What it looks like is just either a hazy summer day, or like it's overcast and about to rain. (But we all know that doesn't happen, LOL. Except in the late winter/early spring a few times.)

I'm sure you're (the OP) more worried about the health aspects than the beauty, though. Yes, it is smoggy, for sure, sometimes visibly so, sometimes not, but it's pretty much always there. I think there may be sites where you can get smog updates, like a daily thing. You know, they tell you how bad it is on any given day. My DH (who grew up around here) tells me (he told me this AFTER we moved, mind you...) that there used to be days when the kids weren't allowed to play outside for recess due to heavy smog. From what I understand it's not like this happened every day or anything, but it happened.

SoCal is constantly trying to clean up its air pollution problem and to be fair, has made strides during the past three decades or so, but frankly, until public transportation is kicked up around here, the amount of car emissions alone are keeping up the smog problem something awful.