ADEQ is now offering a text messaging service to inform people when a High Pollution Advisory (HPA) is being issued for the Greater Phoenix Area. If you sign up for this service, you will receive a text message on your cell phone or small message service (SMS) wireless device by midafternoon the day before the HPA is issued. Note that the following activities are illegal in Area A during days when HPAs have been called for particulate matter:

• Use of an off-highway vehicle (including an all-terrain vehicle or an off-road recreation motor vehicle) on an unpaved surface that is not a public or private road, street, or easement - except at designated locations and events where dust controls are in place.
• City, Town, and County employees and contractors are prohibited from operating leaf blowers, except in vacuum mode, on days when a high pollution advisory has been issued. Residents and private contractors within the area are discouraged from using blowers on HPA days as well.
• Residential wood burning, except in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-approved woodstoves and fireplace inserts or if it is the sole source of heat.
• Recreational outdoor fires except fires used for cooking food or providing warmth for human beings.

While ADEQ charges no fee for this service, the fees set under your cell phone or wireless device plan will apply. To cancel this service, text STOP ADEQ to 95495.