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NEIGHBORS COMPLAINTS * USA: TRUCKS POLLUTION
* Colorado - Residents seek resolution to coal mine woes. King Coal II management meeting with neighbors
(Following up on King Coal II - Video from InsideDurangoTV - InsideDurangoTVCoal mining activity has occurred with GCC which ramped up operations and currently extracts about nine hundred thousand tons of coal each year. It has applied for a BLM lease to expand the mine. The growth in operations has been accompanied by corresponding growth in heavy truck traffic along County Road 120, and residents say it has negatively impacted their quality of life and the safety of County Road 120)
-- Neighbors of a coal mine southwest of Hesperus have formed an advisory panel, and have been working for months to tackle concerns raised by the mine’s truck traffic and water consumption... Trucks for the King II Coal Mine make at least 240 trips a day along County Road 120, and truck drivers have been known to run other vehicles off the road, said Jean Graham, a neighbor and member of the panel. The trucks create an unhealthy level of noise, she said... Neighbors also would like to reach resolution on noise from trucks, which can reach 82 decibels, Graham said. This is equivalent to the sound of a freight train passing 50 feet away. It is also well above the standard of about 70 decibels for industrial zones, he said... Another concern for the neighbors is the mine’s water consumption. The panel met with company management Friday, for a presentation about the mine’s water rights and usage... The mine uses about 1 million gallons a month provided by ditch rights and water trucks from Durango, Graham said...
Durango, COL, USA - The Durango Herald, by Mary Shinn - May 25, 2015
Labels: air pollution, trucks' pollution
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