Dust Control – Soil Stabilization – Erosion Control

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Australian Dust Control  designs a range of shaker dust extractors that are energy efficient, environmentally friendly and can be delivered ready to be installed by the customer.

This type of shaker dust extraction system can be delivered to site preassembled and then easily placed on the base framework.

Located in Harvey Bay, timber flooring and cladding supplier Urbanline commissioned Australian Dust Control to supply a shaker dust collector with an 18.5kw fan that they were able to easily install themselves

These types of shaker dust extractors are also suitable for school woodworking rooms and industrial design classrooms. The dust extractors will ensure that students have access to high standards of protection.

All dust and fume extraction systems designed by Australian Dust Control comply with selection criteria and OH&S regulations.

Mexico’s pocito coal mines are in a few ways stuck in the times of yore – the far-off past.

Mined by means of air hammers as well as pickaxes, bereft of dust control or consistent monitoring of volatile methane gas, the pocitos utilize methods old-fashioned within the United States a century before.

Two latest disasters that killed 25 miners exposed the ancient state of affairs. Last week, 13 miners drowned after a mine called La Espuelita flooded and the men couldn’t flee. The catastrophe came four months following another pocito, La Morita No. 49, exploded and killed 12.

Each one of the pocitos, approximately 30 miles apart in Mexico’s solitary coal-mining region, had a solitary vertical bore, violating safety standards adopted within Mexico and other countries long ago.

“Today, American coal mines are required to have a minimum of 2 shafts. That’s something that we learned way back in the 19th century,” said mine engineering Lecturer Chris Haycocks of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Small seams of coal resembling those that pocitos mine are disregarded by up to date American operations, said Jerry Herndon of the United States Mine Health and Safety Academy in West Virginia.

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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

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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Among the range of solutions that Odourdust Dust Control can offer for stopping dust rise or to suppress it from the air is Buffalo Turbine’s Monsoon. This unit will move water or other fluid through a proprietary gyrating atomizing nozzle, which will expel solution from a rotating hub through a screen at the perimeter of the atomizing nozzle. This results in a high speed impact that pulverises the fluid into a uniform spectrum of droplets.

When formed the tiny droplets will mix with the highly turbulent airflow generated by the Buffalo Turbine 14" single stage turbine, and will be projected into the air. The 50-200 micron size droplets will collect and trap airborne Dust Particulates and odours, ultimately resulting in an immediate reduction of pollution on site.

No generator is required for this diesel-driven, portable unit. Wireless nozzle and throttle control and oscillating stand and a reach of 40 m provides controlled dust suppression for a range of sites.

Now i can see the residents point of view as well as Mr. White’s. It takes time to complete projects like this and staging is part of the game. You don’t redo you dust control every day. The people have a right to clean air and the builder has the obligation to keep it that way. Bu some times we each have to think of the others situation. I guess if he has started with a dust control product like Top-Seal from the very start he would have been in better shape. I can promise you it would have been less than 10k per day.

The state’s Department of Ecology issued a violations notice and order to developer Calvin White for not taking care of dust control problems at two East Wenatchee subdivisions he has been in the process of developing since 2006.

The notice of violations and order, dated Sept. 23, indicates White could face a $10,000 civil penalty each day for each violation if he does not take corrective action.

White has 30 days to appeal the corrective order the DOE issued along with the violations notice; but in the past two weeks, he has been busy at Aspen Hills and Calalina Crest subdivisions north of East Wenatchee. He put in a road, leveled a mountainous pile of dirt and hydroseeded the two properties with an erosion-control seed mix.

Susan Billings, DOE’s section manager for the Central Regional Air Quality Section out of Yakima, said the department has received steady complaints from neighbors of the two subdivision sites.

The notice said neighbors provided detailed reports about ongoing impacts to their health and welfare, damage to their property and inability to enjoy their residences indoors or outside.

Dave Hulligan, whose duplex was situated next to a nearly 60-foot-high pile of soil on White’s land until White leveled it Thursday, said, “It’s almost like living in a sandstorm.”

He said if his garage door is open for even a few minutes, the fine particulate fills up his tool cases.

“My mom, who is staying with me, has asthma, and at times it is impossible for her to breathe,” Hulligan said.

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This story is not uncommon to us. many time good intentions don’t always end up the way we want them to. In this case the method used for erosion control is not exactly panning out the way they expected, now they have a dust control problem as well as an erosion control nightmare about to take place.

Had anyone else built this hillside near the U.S.-Mexico border, it would look nothing like it does. The barren hill would be alive with native plants, the earth would be solidly rooted and not a threat to tumble down into the Tijuana Estuary, a lush, 2,500-acre salt marsh that starts 600 feet away.

But along the newly constructed border fence near the Pacific Ocean in Border Field State Park, inch-thick tan clumps of seeds and mulch still blanket the ground. They haven’t been watered, so no plants have grown.

When Top-Seal is used for erosion control and or dust control, the application can be adjusted so that the end result will promote growth of new vegetation. In farming there is a practice called moisture banking. The objective is to leave the soil undisturbed after there has been a long soaking rain. This rain will create a protective crust on the surface of the soil. This crust will help keep the moisture in the soil. When Top-Seal is used to create this protective layer for either erosion control or dust control, the effects are even more drastic. In the long run, the moisture that is banked and the sealed, is there for the seeds to utilize for growth.

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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.

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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