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Northwest Florida's Environmental Scorecard

This page is dedicated to learning about environmental pollution in our area.  If you have any news or concerns about the health of our environment contact us and we'll do our best to make public the situation.

Also see our Environmental News page for the latest on news and issues related to Okaloosa County and the surrounding area.

Data published with permission from and courtesy of www.Scorecard.org
Toxic Chemical Releases from Manufacturing Facilities
bulletIn 1997, this county ranked 580 out of 1286 counties in the US in terms of air releases of suspected carcinogens
bullet Who is Polluting Your Community?
bullet What are the Major Pollutants?
bulletLearn more about pollution from manufacturing plants in your community
Air Quality: Health Risks from Hazardous Air Pollutants
  • In 1990, this county ranked among the worst 20% of all counties in the US in terms of the number of people living in areas where cancer risk from hazardous air pollutants exceeds 1 in 10,000
  • 111,506 people in OKALOOSA County face a cancer risk more than 100 times the goal set by the Clean Air Act.
    bullet77% of the air cancer risk is from mobile sources
    bullet23% of the air cancer risk is from area sources
    bullet0.37% of the air cancer risk is from point sources
    bullet What's Your Risk?
    bulletLearn more about hazardous air pollutants in your community
Air Pollution: What are the Emission Levels in Your Community?
  • In 1996, this county ranked among the worst 20% of all counties in the US in terms of emissions of volatile organic compounds
  • Air quality is not monitored in your community. Find out about emissions levels of Criteria Air Pollutants
  • Learn more about criteria air pollutants in your community
Agricultural Pollution
bulletIn 1997, this county ranked 36 out of 43 counties in the state in terms of nitrogen lost to atmosphere
bullet How does Your Community Compare?
bulletLearn more about animal waste from factory farms in your community
Setting Environmental Priorities
bulletOne of the top-ranked environmental problems in your state is Water quantity
bulletLearn more about environmental priorities in your state
TAKE ACTION: Send faxes to the top-ranked polluters in your area, send email to government officials, volunteer with environmental organizations in your area, or join Scorecard's online community forum.
ENVIROGUIDE: Online links to information about your community.

Recent Additions in the Surf Your Watershed July 2001 Update

Most of the changes to the Surf Your Watershed site took place behind the scenes.

The Surf Your Watershed application geographic templates and searches have moved to a Cold Fusion environment which will explain why many URLs no longer end in .html. The pages have been reviewed. New links were added. Obsolete links were removed. If you find problems with the pages please use the comments link below.

Surf Your Watershed and the Index of Watershed Indicators (IWI) are two sites but they share common elements. There are several places where the sites cross one to the other. The same buttons and footer links are available to users in both.

Your bookmarks will need to be reset for the new version. See the examples below.

State pages

http://www.epa.gov/surf/states/AR/
to
http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/state.cfm?statepostal=AR

Watershed pages

http://www.epa.gov/surf/hucs/11010005/
to
http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/huc.cfm?huc_code=11010005

County pages

http://www.epa.gov/surf/counties/01009/
to
http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/county.cfm?fips_code=01009

Tribal pages

http://www.epa.gov/surf/tribes/86/
to
http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/tribe.cfm?tribe_code=86

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