# Pittsburgh Rated 3rd dirtiest city in the US
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [June 17, 2005, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021 "2005-06-17T12:46:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@jinxxycat](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jinxxycat)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021/1 "2005-06-17T12:46:49Z")
[readers digest article](http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=15115)
Nice huh? :hsdance:
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### Author:  [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021/2 "2005-06-17T12:50:56Z")
i was going to post that… i read it in the city paper
our waste sanitation kept us from being 1st!
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### Author:  [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021/3 "2005-06-17T12:52:29Z")
btw it’s 3rd dirtiest out of the 50 biggest in the country.
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### Author:  [@OLDS\_ROCKETMAN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OLDS_ROCKETMAN)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021/4 "2005-06-17T12:54:13Z")
yeah those studies are always flawed… pittsburgh used to have an air quality meter and it was right next to a bus stop where it was sucking in that black smoke.
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### Author:  [@jinxxycat](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jinxxycat)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021/5 "2005-06-17T12:58:10Z")
> [@fshowcars](#):
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> i was going to post that… i read it in the city paper
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> our waste sanitation kept us from being 1st!
LOL thank god??? :ugh:
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### Author:  [@jinxxycat](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jinxxycat)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021/6 "2005-06-17T12:58:26Z")
> [@Cutty](#):
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> yeah those studies are always flawed… pittsburgh used to have an air quality meter and it was right next to a bus stop where it was sucking in that black smoke.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
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### Author:  [@S10Blazed\_Si](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/S10Blazed_Si)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021/7 "2005-06-17T12:58:49Z")
> [@Cutty](#):
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> yeah those studies are always flawed… pittsburgh used to have an air quality meter and it was right next to a bus stop where it was sucking in that black smoke.
that black smoke becomes the air anyways… but i see what you’re saying, it changes the average. I wonder how far outside of the city that study includes? like is it just the immediately adjoined towns or the whole county? Philly isn’t too far behind us…
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### Author:  [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021/8 "2005-06-17T13:00:05Z")
> [@Cutty](#):
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> yeah those studies are always flawed… pittsburgh used to have an air quality meter and it was right next to a bus stop where it was sucking in that black smoke.
ROFL
meanwhile i saw where they installed an acid level tester for the MON when it was high water… after it went back down to normal levels the tester was 80% out of the water
🤣
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### Author:  [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021/9 "2005-06-17T13:01:38Z")
> [@S10Blazed Si](#):
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> that black smoke becomes the air anyways… but i see what you’re saying, it changes the average. I wonder how far outside of the city that study includes? like is it just the immediately adjoined towns or the whole county? Philly isn’t too far behind us…
said in the paper that it also ‘looked at each cities’ suburbs"
“high marks for sanitation and hazardous waste removal kept pitttsburgh from being last”
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### Author:  [@OLDS\_ROCKETMAN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OLDS_ROCKETMAN)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021/10 "2005-06-17T13:15:17Z")
the people doing the ratings must have walked up atwood street :eek:
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### Author:  [@oneslowbowtie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/oneslowbowtie)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021/11 "2005-06-17T13:17:05Z")
Did they do that survey when 77rednecktruck came to Pittsburgh to go to the free clinic…
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### Author:  [@OLDS\_ROCKETMAN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OLDS_ROCKETMAN)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021/12 "2005-06-17T13:19:56Z")
to pittsburgh and the US northeast defense, the weather is a big part of it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021/13 "2005-06-17T13:35:35Z")
NYC has NA for sanitation because the truck 4500 18 wheelers a day worth of garbage to the state of PA to be buried
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### Author:  [@BlkP42E](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BlkP42E)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021/14 "2005-06-17T14:49:18Z")
nice
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### Author:  [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittsburgh-rated-3rd-dirtiest-city-in-the-us/175021/15 "2005-06-18T03:43:59Z")
channel 4 news said we where # 22 🤣
Studies should be done on News Channels.