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Winchester and Frederick County signed off with EPA and VDEQ on an Early Action Compact designed to bring about compliance with the new EPA ozone regulations.
Shenandoah, Warren, and Clarke counties may voluntarily participate in this effort.
The Shenandoah National Park and Rappahannock County are interested in this action. Both are slowly being encircled by areas having a potential for being designated as “non-attainment zones” unless they get their ozone levels under control.
Fauquier County is expected to join Northern Virginia as a non-attainment area, possibly by next year.
Then there is the publicprivate plan to widen 1-81, where traffic contributes significantly to the ozone pollution in the valley.
Currently, the average annual daily traffic on 1-81 near Winchester is 53,000 vehicles a day (by comparison, Route 211 in Rappahannock County near Massie’s Comer
96.6%