Dust Control – Soil Stabilization – Erosion Control

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A recent article about Curt Ditter caught my attention. This article, which I will post below, discussed the issues of a small township that often times finds itself scraped for cash. While the bankers are getting bonuses and bailouts, we the people have to find ways to make ends meet. This includes our towns as well. It was within this article that they mentioned Dust Control. Now in times past and in many places still today, the standard operating procedure was to use Calcium Chloride. Granted Calcium works for dust control, for a while and it has some drawbacks with regards to the corrosion and environmental aspects. I say for a while for one simple reason. Once it starts to rain on that Calcium Chloride it starts to wash away.

With Top-Seal you do not have this problem. But you see, when the dust control question arises in debate the cost per application is the only number generally taken into consideration. If they actually wish to save money they need to look are the expected life of each application. An example if one product cost 30% more but only need to be put on once compared to 4 applications of the less expensive product. Which would you chose.  Well if you want to keep you votes you chose the less expensive but if you want to stay in office for a while, you better think long term. For a temporary, reoccurring dust control product, stay with Calcium Chloride, for a long term solution you should seriously consider Top-Seal. Finally the article that caused this thought.

Several people are running for two trustee seats in Brush Creek Township. Rumors of promises made are spreading faster than a plague. Water being extended, chip-seal for roads. We thought water line extensions were handled by the county commissioners, not township trustees. As for chip-seal, Brush Creek is a poor township and can barely afford dust control that is put down on part of our 36 miles of gravel road. We go to meetings and listen to them trying to find money to do more for the township. We can’t even afford a building to lock equipment in to protect it from vandals.

Incumbent Curt Ditter, one of the first to give up his health insurance and saving the township money, is the only one to say he would not take it back. He takes his trustee responsibilities seriously. He always does what he feels is best for the township, never showing partiality to friends. During the four years we’ve been going to meetings, we’ve come to know Ditter well and can swear to this as we never receive special attention for our road. One of the other candidates told my husband that he was only running for the health insurance. We could find the township back to spending 40 percent of the year’s budget on health insurance for the trustees if we’re not careful who we put in office. Ditter doesn’t promise things to get re-elected that he knows can’t be done.

In the past two years, the meetings have been moved from Monday morning back to Saturday night so working trustees and residents can attend. There is no distention between the active trustees and residents being upset in meetings. Roads are in better condition, and no trustee is being prevented from doing his job or running the equipment.

Do we really want things to go backwards? William Daniels is the only other candidate who regularly comes to meetings. We support Ditter and Daniels.

An advisory for blowing dust has been issued for the Las Vegas Valley and surrounding areas as gusty winds are expected Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday afternoon.

The Clark County Department of Air Quality, dust control  and Environmental Management is advising residents and construction site operators to prepare ways to reduce windblown dust grains as gusts could reach up to 60 mph Tuesday afternoon and into Wednesday.

As part of the county’s dust control program, air quality officials are sending notice to construction sites asking them to take precautions to prevent blowing dust. Air quality officials will continue to monitor the air and will post an alert on the DAQEM Web site if unhealthy levels of dust occur.

If high winds occur, local or valley-wide areas of blowing dust are likely to occur, air quality officials said. Children, the elderly and people with respiratory diseases are urged to stay indoors during dust storms.

Better late than never, many of the residents, government works and construction site managers have been contacting SCI to try and improve their dust control program. Over the next few months SCI will be assisting customers is Las Vegas to try and improve their dust control operations.

Residents are encouraged to call Air Quality’s dust complaint hot line at 385-DUST to report excessive amounts of blowing dust.

Air Quality officials also recommend residents drive slowly on unpaved roads, not take shortcuts across vacant lots, ride off-road vehicles only in approved areas outside the urban Las Vegas Valley, and fence off barren property or cover it with gravel, rock or desert-friendly landscaping to keep dust down during high winds.

Due to expected high winds, Clark County Department of Air Quality and Environmental Management (DAQEM) officials are advising residents and operators of local construction sites of the possibility of blowing dust Saturday afternoon through Sunday afternoon.

It’s the second time this week that officials have issued an alert for dust storms in the area, as rapidly lowering temperatures have been accompanied by strong winds.

At this time, unhealthy levels of dust are not occurring.

As part of the county’s dust-control program, air quality officials are sending notices to construction sites around the county, asking them to take precautions to prevent blowing dust.

Air Quality officials will continue to monitor the situation and will post an alert on the forecast page of the DAQEM website if unhealthy levels of dust actually occur.

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A month ago, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords told a Green Valley newspaper that she’s not “anti-mining.” Late last week, she proved it. At a three-hour tour of Freeport McMoran’s Sierrita complex north of Green Valley, at a site where copper has been mined for a century, Giffords was as effusively friendly as she has been critical of the proposed Rosemont Mine in the Santa Rita Mountains across the valley.

She had many reasons, but they boiled down to differences between living with an existing mine in a long-compromised area and bringing a new one into a more pristine site — and to differences in trust between neighbors of Freeport and of Rosemont.

Freeport’s mine — where mining has occurred for a century — employs 1,000 people and sprawls 1.5 by 2 miles in its open pit. A peek inside the 1,500 foot deep pit shows about 25 mine benches, each about 50 feet tall, heading toward the bottom. To the pit’s west lies the rocky Sierrita Mountains.

The mine processes 160,000 to 170,000 tons of ore daily, down in this recessionary area from 220,000 a year ago. Rock is blasted five days a week, three to five times daily. Electric shovels cost $25 million and stand 64 feet high. Each of 18 haul trucks can carry 162 tons for crushing. A mill building stands five stories tall.

Finally, the company’s 3,500 acre tailings impoundment stands as a testimony to past dust complaints from residents but also offers promise for future groundwater cleanups and newer dust control equipment, since the company is proposing to do a massive, very expensive cleanup of tainted groundwater lying underneath and spreading from the tailings.

At one point, Giffords marveled to company officials: “You’ve got quite a piece of land. How did it get like this?”

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Recently SCI was tested on a tank training facility that has hundreds of miles of tank trails. The test were very successful and it looks like they will be taking over the contract for dust control at this location. Details withheld until further contracts are completed at which time a formal press release will be available.

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Minneapolis, MN October 1, 2009 — The Proterra™ rider sweeper from Advance combines superior maneuverability, simple operation, and a 64-inch dust-controlled sweeping path to set a new standard of cleaning productivity for rider sweepers. The machine’s five-stage dust-suppression system captures dust at the main broom and side brooms, which minimizes fugitive dust and helps keep manufacturing facilities, parking garages, warehouses and other indoor and outdoor areas clean and free of airborne particles.

The patented DustClear™ Five-Stage Dust Control system begins controlling dust at the side brooms – the greatest source of fugitive dust on other sweepers. The Proterra’s dust suppression system emits a light mist at the side brooms that bonds to dust so that it settles and is immediately swept into the main broom chamber instead of drifting into the air. A vacuumized main broom chamber provides consistent airflow into the broom chamber to ensure all dust is contained in the main hopper. An Ultra-Web® (1) nanofiber filter then removes any remaining dust particles from the air stream. The life and performance of the filter is extended with Proterra’s variable frequency filter shaker system, which aggressively shakes the filter free of fine dust and particles at multiple vibration frequencies.

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The issue of dust control on Lake Street north (Wigdahl Point) came back to Emmetsburg City Council Monday night. Adjacent property owners Pete Hamilton and Mary Brown attended to address the council.

Talking on fundamental fairness, Hamilton said the city should maintain the street and the dust control. He told the council that this is a heavily traveled 400-foot stretch of street, used by vehicles, bicycles, walkers, and joggers. He sees no fairness in asking homeowners to maintain the street.

Hamilton has contacted the EPA and DNR to see who is responsible for the dust control. He asked, is this ordinary travel on this road? By the road dust creating a nuisance, he referred to extraordinary travel. Hamilton asked that the city control the dust, and/or control the speed with creates a huge amount of dust.

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