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The Portsmouth OH Local Air Agency
The Air Division, or the Portsmouth Local Air Agency (PLAA), works as a contractual representative of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA).
The PLAA monitors the compliance status of the businesses and industries with air pollution sources in the five-county region (Adams, Scioto, Lawrence, Brown, and Highland).
Additionally, the PLAA prepares permits, conducts facility inspections and reviews quarterly deviation and excess emission reports, observes source stack tests, reviews and issues or denies permission to open burn, monitors asbestos removal activities, initiates enforcement actions and responds to air quality complaints.
The PLAA also maintains continuous and intermittent monitors measuring pollutants on a daily basis throughout its four-county area in Southern Ohio. The PLAA performs anti-tampering (vehicle emission control devices) inspections and observes and validates stack (source) testing that occurs in the five-county area.
Air Quality Complaints
The Portsmouth City Health Department, Air Division, investigates all air quality complaints including: open burning, odor, fugitive dust, asbestos, anti-tampering, industrial facility complaints.
Please contact the Air Division at (740)353-5156 to file a complaint.
Please provide the correct address for the complaint and alleged violator (if known) at the time of your call.
Complaints may be given anonymously.
Important Resources, Links & Forms
Please review the additional information below to learn more:
- Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
- Air Quality Index
- Open Burning Information
- Asbestos Information
- Notification for Demolition (Asbestos)
- Before You Light It: Know Ohio’s Open Burning Regulations
- What You Can Burn in the Neighborhood
- Burning Down the House: How Your Fire Department Can Do it Properly
- Notification Form
- Recognized horticultural, silvicultural, or range, prairie, grassland, wildlife management Notification Form
- Request Permission to Conduct Open Burning Form
- Anti-Tampering
Cindy Charles
Director
Anne Chamberlin
Permit Specialist
Steven Biars
Permit Specialist
Grant Satterfield
Engineering Tech
Ryland France
Engineering Tech
Zack Ward
Receptionist/Fiscal Officer