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Dust control a major issue for western N.D.

DICKINSON, N.D. — In 1978, Kansas sang “all we are is dust in the wind.” For residents of southwestern North Dakota in 2013 caught in a dust storm on a windy day, that lyric can certainly ring true.

By Katherine Grandstrand, Forum News Service , May 20, 2013

Mayville, N.D., elevator to cut dust

Mayville Farmers Co-op Elevator plans to install a $550,000 air pollution control system within six months to control dust and chaff from its elevator in downtown Mayville.

By By Kevin Bonham, Forum Communications , December 11, 2012

After legal threats, ND elevator will filter dust

The board of directors for a Mayville grain elevator has voted to install a dust filtering system before expanding, after residents organized and hired attorneys who threatened legal action.

June 22, 2012

Elevator dispute in ND city centers around dust

MAYVILLE, N.D. (AP) — Some residents in the eastern North Dakota city of Mayville are urging a local grain elevator to install a dust control system before expanding.

June 10, 2012

Study aimed at reducing road dust

A former state Health Department official is leading a research project to determine what works best for controlling dust on gravel roads in western North Dakota’s booming oil patch.

May 19, 2012

ND oil patch study aimed at reducing road dust

A former state Health Department official is leading a research project to determine what works best for controlling dust on gravel roads in western North Dakota's booming oil patch.

May 18, 2012

New study aimed at dust control

A former top North Dakota health official will direct a study to explore the best ways to control dust clouds kicked up by the heavy truck traffic that has accompanied western North Dakota’s oil boom.

September 21, 2011

Dry conditions, traffic lead to lingering dust

A traffic official says road use, calm days and dry conditions are causing dust to linger over the countryside of western North Dakota.

September 15, 2011

North Dakota studying dust related to oil traffic

Complaints from western North Dakota farmers and ranchers about oil traffic-generated dust have spurred a state study to determine the severity of the problem. ]

July 12, 2011

ND studying oil-traffic related dust

Complaints from western North Dakota farmers and ranchers about oil traffic-generated dust have spurred a state study to determine the severity of the problem on crops and pastures.

July 11, 2011

Study: Mineral on western N.D. roads can affect lungs

BISMARCK — An asbestos-like mineral used on western North Dakota gravel roads can cause changes in workers’ lungs consistent with commercial asbestos exposure that could lead to breathing problems, a study has found. The erionite investigation did not find an increase in mesothelioma cancer — a serious disease associated with exposure to asbestos-like dust — but the results are inconclusive about whether there is an increased risk, the state Health Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday.

By By Blake Nicholson , The Associated Press , October 19, 2010

EPA could contribute $2M to contain dust particles

An Environmental Protection Agency official says the agency may pay up to $2 million to help Dunn County contain dust particles on gravel roads that hold the potentially dangerous mineral erionite.

December 17, 2009

Lack of volunteers delays dust study

Lack of volunteers delays dust study North Dakota’s top rock researcher and the state’s chief fossil finder have spent decades exposed to an asbestos-like mineral found in western North Dakota that is similar to a kind linked to cancer in lab rats and in people in Turkey. State geologist Ed Murphy and state paleontologist John Hoganson want to know if erionite has caused them health problems, so they volunteered for a government-funded study to find out.

By By James MacPherson, The Associated Press , April 13, 2009

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Erionite study seeks participants

The North Dakota Department of Health and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are seeking participants for a study measuring the risk, if any, of breathing dust from gravel containing the fiber erionite. Erionite is a fibrous mineral with some properties similar to asbestos, but is not regulated as a form of asbestos. Like asbestos, erionite may pose health risks to those who breathe in the fibers.

March 17, 2009

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