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<br />Page 9│Kittitas County Air Quality Survey│9/30/2014 <br /> <br />Beliefs & Attitudes Regarding Air Quality <br />The first objectfve for this survey was to examine community perceptfons around the issue of air <br />quality and causes of air pollutfon in Kittitas County. A Likert scale was used to organize partfcipant <br />responses (see Figure 1). Overall, approximately half (47%) of respondents feel that poor air quality is <br />a significant environmental issue in Kittitas County. One fifth (20%) of the community does not know <br />if it is a significant environmental issue while the remaining 32% don’t think that it is a problem. Over <br />half of Kittitas County residents (54%) believe that poor air quality occurs mostly during wildfire <br />season. One third (31%) of residents do not agree with this, with the remainder (10%) reportfng they <br />aren’t sure. Roughly half of the county feels that wood stoves and fireplaces (56%), agricultural <br />burning (50%) and diesel fuel/highway traffic (56%) are major contributors to poor air quality. The <br />remainder of resident responses are split fairly evenly between those that aren’t sure if they <br />contribute and those that feel that they don’t contribute at all. County responses were also fairly <br />divided on whether or not government should increase enforcement efforts. Forty percent feel that <br />they should, 28% don’t know and 32% feel that they should not. <br /> <br />FIGURE 4: Community Survey Likert Scale Results