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Pollution, Air Quality, Noise And Traffic
The summer of 2006 was unusually hot and dry resulting in greater than the average figures used in the Application. Therefore days when dust is likely to be at its worst is greater than the one day or half a day referred to in the Application.
Please think carefully about whether you wish to support an Application for another quarry that could produce additional dust problems for properties in Barton and area. Remember: Dust created from mineral extraction or that carried along the road will affect health conditions such as asthma. Also recently published research has shown that children, who grow up in close proximity of increased traffic fumes, are at serious risk of their lungs not developing to full capacity. Barton & Middleton Tyas each has a junior school within a short distance of the proposed ‘NEW’ quarry – Do we want our children, or future generations to suffer?
It is known that at least one Barton resident has compiled a detailed dossier of complaints, submitted to Richmondshire District Council, about dust understood to have originated from Barton Quarry.
Barton, also known locally as ‘windy’ Barton, experiences strong winds and breezes regularly throughout the year. Wind speed data within the Application will not, perhaps, accurately reflect the reality of local weather patterns particularly as readings appear to have been taken from data generated by a meteorological weather station some 20kms distant.
Read Scott Wilson’s Air Quality pdf document