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50 Cleanest (Dirtiest) Cities in America; Reader's Digest List
Topic Started: Jun 5 2008, 03:18 AM (169 Views)
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http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/50-cleanest-dirtiest-cities-in-america/article15115.html

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What’s the cleanest big city in the U.S.? How about the dirtiest? In our July issue, we decided to find out, by analyzing data to score each of the 50 largest cities on air quality, water quality, industrial pollution (toxics), Superfund sites, and sanitation. Rather than just the cities themselves, we looked at metropolitan areas, which include surrounding counties and suburbs. (This can have a real effect on a place’s score; Chicago, for example, has excellent water but its score is brought down by problems in the outlying areas). Because we only looked at the 50 largest places, there may be smaller cities that are much cleaner or dirtier than these—and because the scores represent relative rankings, that a city comes in first or last in a given category does not necessarily mean it’s perfectly pristine or dangerously filthy.



HOW WE SCORED: Metro areas earned points on a scale from 1 to 50 in each category, with the numbers reflecting a city's ranking next to the other places. Since it's a 50-city survey, the cleanest in a category got 50 points. Next, to get a preliminary score, we weighted the five categories in terms of the health threat each one posed relative to the others (the weighting was further adjusted for cities with no sanitation data.) Water and air scores, for example, got twice the weight of sanitation scores, since it's of little value to have pristine streets if what you drink and breathe are killing you. To get final scores, we averaged all the points for each city.

Here, then, is our list of the 50 largest metro areas in America and how they compare. Higher total numbers mean a cleaner city.




Portland (OR)
San Jose
Buffalo
Columbus
San Francisco
Denver
Rochester (NY)
Austin
Orlando
San Diego
Hartford
Sacramento
Las Vegas
San Antonio
Oklahoma City
Minneapolis
Indianapolis
Salt Lake City
Jacksonville
Charlotte
Virginia Beach
Cincinnati
Nashville
Riverside (CA)
New Orleans
Milwaukee
Seattle
Baltimore
Miami
Dallas
Tampa
Memphis
Providence
Louisville
Washington (DC)
Phoenix
Detroit
Richmond
Cleveland
Atlanta
Houston
Los Angeles
Boston
Philadelphia
Kansas City
Birmingham
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
New York
Chicago


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I edited the list a bit, because it didn't come out very well here. To see all the information go to the link above.
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Oh my God Chicago is the dirtiest city and yet I live 30 miles away from there. :pinch:
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lol my brother is moving to chicago from NYC
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I don't believe that Riverside tested better than Los Angeles. I have been to both and would prefer LA over Riverside hands down. The air itself is so much worse in Riverside and a lot of areas smell.
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I don't know what Riverside's like now but 8 years ago it was a dump.
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Jun 14 2008, 06:22 AM
I don't know what Riverside's like now but 8 years ago it was a dump.
It has cleaned up a bit but I still wouldn't want to consider it home.
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