Deseret News | Reader comments: Cache is struggling to clear its murky air

Reader comments
Cache is struggling to clear its murky air

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Anonymous | 9:01 a.m. Nov. 13, 2007

How about emission testing for cars? Sounds like a logical place to start..

Karl Kategianes | 10:00 a.m. Nov. 13, 2007

It's why I moved away from there. Winter was hell on earth. Inversions, fog, sub-zero temps, they can have it...

Sick in Logan | 10:18 a.m. Nov. 13, 2007

How about starting out by requiring emissions tests on vehicles in order to register???

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Selective reporting, again | 12:12 p.m. Nov. 13, 2007

Gotta love how the reporter completely ignored the recent study by the State DEQ that found no siginficant impairment of the lung function of Cache Valley school children on high-pollution days.

Didn't fit the template, I guess. Or perhaps it was because the Trib reported it first.

ANONYMOUS | 12:17 p.m. Nov. 13, 2007

I live in Cache Valley and love it!! The air most of the year is fabulous, and in the winter it does not bother me. It is a great place!!--

Wow | 12:24 p.m. Nov. 13, 2007

Is it true they don't require emissions tests? I think that's ludicrous.

Joe Moe | 1:03 p.m. Nov. 13, 2007

Having lived in both SLC and Logan, I was pleasantly surprised to lose the emissions inspection requirement when I came to Logan. But I'd gladly see the test required here in Cache if it will make a difference, and from what I know it will. A small difference, but it's a start.

Just me | 2:19 p.m. Nov. 13, 2007

I find it interesting that last week the voters in Cache Valley decided they wanted to spend money on roads, not better transit. I have lived in Logan and the traffic is becoming unbearable and the pollution in the small valley is terrible. Why wouldn't the people vote for better transit. You reap what you sow.....

The air is fine most of the time | 2:45 p.m. Nov. 13, 2007

ANONYMOUS is correct: Normally Cache Valley exceeds EPA limits only in the winter, and most of the high-pollution days occur between mid-December and mid-February.

In some years, depending on the weather the air pollution levels might not exceed any standards.

The rest of the year Cache Valley's air quality is listed as "good" by the EPA.

In any case, the pollution there is not anywhere close to the pollution in Southern California, as some have claimed.

Anonymous | 2:46 p.m. Nov. 13, 2007

I always register my car in Cache County to avoid the emissions test :) Went there for school and loved it! But the winters are noxious- the crap settels in the valley thick as soup. There is some good things like free public tranist going on in Cache Valley, but also typical backwards Utah thinking that is difficult to escape. I remember a local mayor, who I will not specify, would say rediculous things like he didn't believe in air polution!

former CacheValley Resident | 3:05 p.m. Nov. 13, 2007

The public transportation in Cache Valley is a joke. They pride themselves in offering it for free, yet offer a worthless system. To get around it takes anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour and a half, when you could probably walk in 30 minutes or drive in 5 minutes. They also need a highway that bypasses Logan altogether to allow trucks to avoid main street. The city is a perfect candidate for a *good* public transportation system, but that would mean taxes and having to charge to use it. Too many people in Cache Valley are tight wads when it comes to paying for anything that I doubt it will ever happen.

Joe Moe | 3:06 p.m. Nov. 13, 2007

Sorry for posting twice, but I had a major brainwave. Forget transit or emissions controls: let's install huge fans that will break the inversion and cycle our air with the upper atmosphere. I call it the IBFS (inversion-breaking fan system).

[I do hereby copyright the IBFS (you heard it here first!) and demand that anyone who uses my idea pay royalties and fees, to be determined by written contract.]

Jerry | 3:19 p.m. Nov. 13, 2007

This so called air pollution has existed here in Cache Valley years before cars were invented. This is all part of the usual liberal conspiracy to charge good people more money to forward their agenda. What next? A global warming fee? Geesh.

jack | 5:29 p.m. Nov. 13, 2007

I lived in Cache Valley during my college years. I loved the University and the mountains/canyons, but I could not stand the town. Backward thinking, terrible traffic, legislators that aren't willing to accept current realities, etc. I considered living there after college, but decided against it because of the traffic, the cold, and the pollution. Some people would like to ignore the problem, but if you have lived outside the valley, you know it exists big time. The last comment blaming liberals, instead of actually addressing the problem is typical over there and is the reason I left.

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