Dust Control – Soil Stabilization – Erosion Control

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Federal officials unveiled a three-pronged strategy to combat black lung disease during a meeting Thursday at the National Mine Health and Safety Academy in Beaver.

Mining officials and medical experts say education, stricter enforcement and new regulations can curb the disease, which has been on the rise in the region and has killed some 10,000 miners in the last decade.

Thursday’s meeting was the first of four informational sessions planned by Mine Safety and Health Administration.

“There is a collective agreement that we have to fix this problem,” MSHA Director Joseph Main told a packed room that included representatives from mining companies, the United Mine Workers of America and former miners suffering from the ailment.

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Here is the problem. When you use a dust suppression product like Top-Seal Dust Control, You cause the soil to become less permeable. Thus Causing the water in the lake to stay in the lake. Eventually you will Flood your Solar Farm and then it will just be a nice place to dive.

In Los Angeles, California, the city’s Department of Water and Power (DWP) is eyeing flat, dusty, arid Owens Lake as the potential site for a future mega-solar farm, but the initiative is focused less on clean, renewable solar energy than on preventing the interminable dust storms generated by the dry lake bed.

Owens Lake started to run dry when, in 1913, the city began diverting water from the Owens River. By 1926, the former lake was a shallow hardpan. Today, it ranks as the largest single source of PM10 dust (windborn dust particles smaller than 10 microns) in the United States. In fact, one estimate suggests the lake produces up to 8 million metric tons per year.

The DWP thinks that covering 616 acres of the lake bed with solar panels could cut down on dust storms, which threaten the health of nearby Keeler and Ridgecrest residents by delivering up to 23 times the amount of airborne particulate matter federal levels suggest as safe.

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New rules to reduce miners’ exposure to coal dust will be proposed within a couple of weeks, according to the nation’s top mine supervisory body.

Joseph Main, the new head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Organization, said he has long thought there is “a need to lower the intensity of unhealthy dust in mines,” and he indicated that a new, wearable dust control monitor that can continuously measure miners’ contact to coal dust may be part of the new rules.

“A mechanism has been built, it has been tested, I’ve worn it myself. It works,” Main told the media in a meeting call Friday. “It’s a tool we can now utilize to help fix this dilemma of unhealthy coal mine dust that has plagued miners.”

That dust can cause deadly black lung, which has killed more than 21,000 miners from Kentucky and other coal-producing states since the mid-1980s.

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Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan’s new report “South African Air Pollution Control Market” to their offering.

Research Overview

This Frost & Sullivan research service titled South African Air Pollution Control Market provides a strategic overview of the total air pollution control market. In this research, Frost & Sullivan’s expert analysts thoroughly examine the current trends in air pollution control and how market participants can take advantage of opportunities that are expected to arise. The following market sectors are covered in this research: energy and power, chemicals and petrochemicals, steel and metals, pulp and paper and cement and brick manufacturing. Fabric filters, electrostatic precipitators, scrubbing equipment, flue gas desulphurization and dust suppression are some of the technologies examined in the research. Read the rest of this entry »

In the construction trade, respiratory disease, often resulting in disability or an increased risk of cancer, may be a major public health concern. Studies led by Deborah Young-Corbett, a faculty member in Virginia Tech’s Faculty of Construction, have shown that specific sorts of sanding tools are highly effective in reducing the dust that causes these health hazards, however the business’s usage of the accessible technology remains very low.

To seek out out why, Young-Corbett conducted follow-up studies with construction business owners and employees, and found a range of barriers to the adoption of technology that lead to better environments. She said they related to efficiency, labor quality, and perceptions of benefits and risks.

One of her contemporaries, Theodore Koebel of urban relationships and designing at Virginia Tech has additionally conducted work in this subject and has found a number of methods to encourage the construction industry to adopt the new technologies.

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One topic the county commissioners, city Council members and mayors of Green River and Rock Springs will address at a workshop Nov. 6 is turning what remains of the old highway into a serviceable alternate road between the two cities.

The commissioners began planning the workshop last August.

“We do this kind of work every day,” Rock Springs Mayor Tim Kaumo said. “If we all come together, we can come up with a product that will meet the needs of our community.”

Opinions on how this might be accomplished vary. County Engineer John Radosevich envisions a crushed base surface, with a magnesium chloride treatment for dust control two or three times a year, depending on volume of use. Kaumo thinks milled up asphalt would work better.

This is the type of project SCI thrives on, by utilizing the soils that are native to the area we would be able to transform what is considered an unusable road into a very usable and manageable road for a fraction of the cost they are looking at spending. By the time this is published here we will have contacted the public workers regarding their options. dust Control is just another part of the benefit to using Top-Seal

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This is just an excerpt from a much longer story dealing with the impact of coal mine and coal mine dust control. the reason for bringing this issue to the forefront here is because many of the coal mine operations that are dealing with dust control should be looking at SCI’s Haul Road dust control products to lower their water consumption. Dust control in the long term can be a source of savings when done right. Not only will you aid the environment by cutting back on coal dust emissions, but you will also lower the cost of legal fees when dealing with the effects of un-controlled dust. here is a short pieces of the full story.

For LJ Turner in Wyoming, coal mining is slowly taking away the vast acreage of his ranch.

"They’ve taken away our land, they’re taking away our water, they’re destroying our air – this is affecting us," said Turner. "We’ve been ranching on government leases since the 1930s, and (mining) has taken 6,000 acres from us so far." Campbell County, Wyoming, where Turner resides, produces a whopping 35% of the nation’s coal from a series of mining complexes that lay waste to miles of pristine prairie.

Turner said thankfully his family has 10,000 deeded acres that they cannot take away, but that land is still affected because the Powder River Basin mining operations are affecting the water.

"They’re depleting the surface aquifers very heavily," he explained. "And the coal bed methane is depleting the deeper aquifers, so we’re losing well water and creek water."

The Powder River Basin includes the nation’s largest surface mine, the Black Thunder Mine. Aquifers and rivers that once irrigated crops and watered cattle are now being used for power plants and dust suppression. Across the prairies and mountains of the Basin, communities have been divided. The region, once home to numerous Native tribes and then family ranches, is now a patchwork of coal mines, power lines, rail lines, and oil and gas wells.

For Otto Braided Hair, it was very important to share the realities of mining to folks who may not think about where their electricity comes from.

"Within minutes of where we live, in almost any direction, there is on-going destruction from coal mining," he said of his home in southeast Montana. "The blues skies are streaked with a brown haze of pollution, and the sacred waters are being threatened and damaged due to coal bed methane development, among other indications of disregard to the environment."

Otto said he wants to encourage people everywhere to think about more than just themselves.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-nilles/the-true-impact-of-coal-m_b_340420.html

The Ministry of Environment and Water has suspended operations of three stone crushers in Ras Al Khaimah for a week for breaching environmental regulations.

Inspectors conducted snap night visits to these quarries in response to complaints by citizens of Shoka area where the three industrial facilities are operating.

Inspectors said the quarries kept dust control systems witched off, a process helps to release dust in air, posing danger to public heath safety.

The stone crushers have been given one week to set everything right in coordination with the local authorities H.E. Dr. Rashid Ahmed bin Fahad, Minister of Environment and Water, said the inspectors had implemented the cabinet resolution no 20 of 2008 on regulations concerning operations of stone crushers and quarries and transportation of their products and the ministerial resolution no 492.

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Many municipalities are having trouble these days complying with the federal governments mandates on dust control Why? simply put, the banks have cut off credit to the consumers, which in turn has killed the consumer market which has killed many support industries which have ended many jobs thus creating a shortfall in the amount of revenue everyone is taking in… Including local and state governments. Is this accidental, I don’t think so but regardless, Dust control is mandated by the federal government and must be paid for some how. Some would say raise taxes to keep the coffers full. That only takes more away from the people that still have jobs. The end effect is the government gets larger and the citizens supporting said government get poorer. is this the dust road we wish to travel. I don’t think so. SCI can help the local governments by aiding them in meeting these mandated requirements while at the same time conserving their precious resources. This next story is not only about dust Control it is about survival of a small town in the USA.

An increase in the Nye County gas tax from 4 cents per gallon to 7 cents was a necessity in light of a 32 percent decline in gas tax revenues, the Nye County Regional Transportation Commission decided Monday.

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3 groups threatening to file a lawsuit against Alaska Railroad Corp.

ANCHORAGE – When the north wind blows in Seward, dust flies off a large pile of coal and covers the town’s scenic boat harbor in black grit.

"It is just very, very, very dirty. It piles up against homes. I get reports of it in windowsills, inside locked cars, inside boats. Folks come back after the winter and find piles of it inside their locked up boats," said Russ Maddox with the Resurrection Bay Conservation Alliance.

That local group has tried for years to fix the problem, and now three conservation groups are threatening to file a lawsuit against Alaska Railroad Corp. and Aurora Energy Services LLC, alleging they are discharging coal without a permit into Resurrection Bay – a popular destination for summer tourists.

Trustees for Alaska, a public interest law firm representing the Alaska Center for the Environment, Alaska Community on Toxics and the Alaska chapter of the Sierra Club late last month issued a 60-day notice of intent to sue.

The groups accuse the railroad and Aurora Energy of violating the federal Clean Water Act.

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