ABE reports on effect approaches to dust monitoring in quarries

Dust monitoring

Dust can be a big problem for quarries but careful monitoring is essential to find the right solution, according to SLR Consulting's Rachel Cutler. Noise, dust and vibration are all issues that can cause friction between quarry operations and the surrounding local communities and are all problems the quarrying industry is working to mitigate. Sources of noise and vibration can be fairly easily identified and isolated but preventing dust is more of a challenge as there can be multiple sources and deposition rates can be very weather dependent. "To maintain good local relations and to ensure that residents are not affected by nuisance levels of dust, monitoring schemes are..