wood burning fireplaces: Wood Burning Fireplaces to Disappear in Southern California
- 02/15/09 02:54 PM
Starting March 9th, 2009 In the Southern California Air Quality Management District (AQMD) consisting of San Bernadino, Riverside, Orange and parts of Los Angeles Counties, builders may no longer build wood burning fireplaces. The Southcoast Air Quality Management District passed rule 445 which regulates permanent indoor and outdoor burning devices. If you live in this district, you may also not even add a hearth wood burning fireplace in any of your remodel plans. Environmental concerns about smoke with particulates that are small enough to lodge in the lungs , supposedly are a serious health risk according to studies. Now, I haven’t
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