EPA to county: Control your DUST!

[CornfieldCounty]

Really? Control the dust in a rural county? THIS is a prime example of why the EPA needs to be dissolved!

http://www.azcentral.com/community/p...ust-level.html

EPA: Pinal County must lower dust level

by Lindsey Collom - May. 23, 2012 10:04 PM

After two years of warnings, Pinal County has been ordered to clean up its air.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has declared that portions of western Pinal County are violating its coarse-dust standard, which limits the amount of PM-10, particles 10 micrometers or less in diameter, present in the air.

[Huskers57]

2 years of warnings...they've had plenty of patience...it just about ran out.

[Squatchsker]

2 years of warnings...they've had plenty of patience...it just about ran out.

I just cant do it.

[McKinneyTXHusker]

I just cant do it.

Aww, c'mon! You know you wanna...

[ShuckIt]

So do they want some dust or wasting water on settling the dust? How else do you control dust? Plant stuff which takes away the earths nutrients, water which draws down much needed irrigation water needed in the desert, maybe cloud seeding to make it rain?

[huskrthill]

So do they want some dust or wasting water on settling the dust? How else do you control dust? Plant stuff which takes away the earths nutrients, water which draws down much needed irrigation water needed in the desert, maybe cloud seeding to make it rain?

Put oil on it.

[Red Dead Redemption]

So do they want some dust or wasting water on settling the dust? How else do you control dust? Plant stuff which takes away the earths nutrients, water which draws down much needed irrigation water needed in the desert, maybe cloud seeding to make it rain?

crushed barton springs salamanders are very sticky -- they would work well

[CornfieldCounty]

2 years of warnings...they've had plenty of patience...it just about ran out.

Two years of stupidity? Yea.. that makes it all OK.

[FeelLikeAStranger]

I'm convinced we are heading for another dust bowl. So many farmers are taking down the few remaining shelterbelts for an extra row of corn, the CRP acreage #'s are dwindling...All we need is a good drought for a year or two and its going to be ugly.

[CornfieldCounty]

I'm convinced we are heading for another dust bowl. So many farmers are taking down the few remaining shelterbelts for an extra row of corn, the CRP acreage #'s are dwindling...All we need is a good drought for a year or two and its going to be ugly.

Just for clarification, do you know what caused the dust bowl and why it pretty much cannot happen today?

[HuskerMark]

Put oil on it.

This is the only answer.

[ShuckIt]

Maybe we can start paying people to pee on the dust?

[Huskers57]

Maybe we can start paying people to pee on the dust?

pee is a natural fertilizer. just make sure everyone pees down wind.

[Squatchsker]

Just for clarification, do you know what caused the dust bowl and why it pretty much cannot happen today?

Monsters. We killed them all, although I think some of their kin still live in Canada.

[Squatchsker]

pee is a natural fertilizer. just make sure everyone pees down wind.

Filter my man, filter.

[CornfieldCounty]

Monsters. We killed them all, although I think some of their kin still live in Canada.

Get out of my field!!!

[Ogahusker]

Between this and cow farts, rural America should be nuked.

[RedRum]

In my neighborhood, a guy bought a lot across the street and is using it for a baseball field. It is not irrigated and he mowed it down in the fall. This spring it was a mess. I had dirt everywhere in my garage, attic, pool. The people next door to him were way worse as they had dirt mounds at the edge of the grass. Blowing dust can create a lot of problems for others and if you create a mess for others, you should have some responsibility.

[CornfieldCounty]

In my neighborhood, a guy bought a lot across the street and is using it for a baseball field. It is not irrigated and he mowed it down in the fall. This spring it was a mess. I had dirt everywhere in my garage, attic, pool. The people next door to him were way worse as they had dirt mounds at the edge of the grass. Blowing dust can create a lot of problems for others and if you create a mess for others, you should have some responsibility.

In an urban setting, sure.. IN THE DESERT? um.. no.

[BDS]

In my neighborhood, a guy bought a lot across the street and is using it for a baseball field. It is not irrigated and he mowed it down in the fall. This spring it was a mess. I had dirt everywhere in my garage, attic, pool. The people next door to him were way worse as they had dirt mounds at the edge of the grass. Blowing dust can create a lot of problems for others and if you create a mess for others, you should have some responsibility.

There's a difference between personal responsibility and proposed regulations by government agencies. I agree that your neighbor should be accountable for his actions that might affect you, but I don't agree that the EPA should be regulating policies about dust control.