Overview

• Selection year: 2018

• Selected for: Community Air Monitoring Plan and Community Emissions Reduction Program

• Air District: Imperial County Air Pollution Control District

• CARB Community Lead Contact: Andrea Juarez

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The Calexico, El Centro, and Heber community is in the Imperial County Air Pollution Control District (ICAPCD). The communities of Calexico, El Centro and Heber represent an industrial corridor that extends north from the U.S.-Mexico border. The community bears a high traffic density burden as well as impacts from agriculture and stationary source emissions.

The Calexico, Heber, El Centro community has an area of 158 square miles with a population of about 98,000. In 2017, an average of 12,080 passenger vehicles crossed the border into Calexico per day. Additionally, there are two large stationary sources in the community, a power generation facility and a cement facility, along with warehouses and small industrial operations. Agricultural activities, unpaved roads, and animal feedlots are additional sources in this region, along with a rail line that runs between the three areas. Sensitive receptors in the community include 52 schools, 43 licensed daycare facilities, and 1 hospital. The community experiences some of the highest rates of poverty and unemployment in the region, and the rate of pediatric asthma-related emergency rooms visits is twice the State average.

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Community Boundary