Throughout coastal Marin, nonprofits and government agencies are working together to collect data, implement change, and post information ensuring the air we breathe, the water we drink, and where we play is safe for everyone. This pages includes links to both clean air and clean water resources. Click the blue hyperlinks to learn more.
How’s the Water Quality Today?
Water pollution happens when harmful substances, like chemicals or solid wastes (from humans or animals), are discharged into a body of water. The most common forms of water pollution include: agriculture (fertilizers, pesticides, and nutrients, bacteria from animal waste products); sewage and wastewater; oil pollution; and radioactive substances.
Marin County Ocean & Bay Water Quality Testing Program
Tomales Bay
Watershed Council
HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA MAP & WEBSITE
WATER QUality resources
state of california
How’s the Air Quality Today?
Air pollution happens when certain gases or particulates are released into the air and cause harm to people, animals, and/or plants. Some of the types of air pollution include smog and soot; hazardous air pollution from industries that release chemicals like benzene and metals like lead and mercury; exhaust from cars and wildfire smoke releases polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs); wildfire smoke, and pollens and molds. Air pollution also includes greenhouse gases (GHG), like carbon dioxide. GHG cause the climate to warm by trapping heat from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere. Ozone in the troposphere is a GHG and also a health hazard.
air quality resources
DRAWDOWN MARIN
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