FYI...Maricopa County

[howyadoin]

Wasn't aware of this...very...."interesting"???:eek:

http://www.azvirtualjeepclub.com/showthread.php?t=683

[FAUX X 4]

Wasn't aware of this...very...."interesting"???:eek:

http://www.azvirtualjeepclub.com/showthread.php?t=683

Dust control??? How bout they tell the farmers and construction sites to knock it off too....... I mean, it's only fair right? :rolleyes:

[ninja]

No way, that sucks

[Heatstroke]

:rolleyes:


Only gonna get worse.

[FAUX X 4]

I'm sensing a flat black paint job and some night vision goggles in my near future! :mad:

[Crash]

This is only for high pollution days during the regular work week. But LEO doesn't know this yet and are just trying to stop everybody. Still Sucks!

[Kaistie]

Dust control??? How bout they tell the farmers and construction sites to knock it off too....... I mean, it's only fair right? :rolleyes:

Trust me, construction sites are getting hit hard! We received a 5K fine last year. Now, we don't allow someone to sneeze unless they are on a wet patch of dirt. The fines for construction are now 13K per incident. I have had two inspections this year at the airport and we only have about 500 sqft of disturbed dirt. So yes, they are serious about this and will issue fines if need be. Best practice is to slow down on any dirt road near Phoenix.

[FAUX X 4]

Trust me, construction sites are getting hit hard! We received a 5K fine last year. Now, we don't allow someone to sneeze unless they are on a wet patch of dirt. The fines for construction are now 13K per incident. I have had two inspections this year at the airport and we only have about 500 sqft of disturbed dirt. So yes, they are serious about this and will issue fines if need be. Best practice is to slow down on any dirt road near Phoenix.

WOW! :eek:

Maybe I need to retrofit a water sprayer to the bed of the truck!......... naw, it doesn't go fast enough! :lmao:

[Jay04Taco]

Yea, i do bluestake, and some of the prjects i have goin on right now, The county is shutting them down on days when the wind is over 15-25mph....Cause of dust control, 2 days this week, and 1 day last week they god shut down and had to go home for the day.

[rockbronco]

we are becoming like CA faster and faster.....

[JJackson]

The desert is not suppose to be dusty??

[lvanst]

Can we start by bitch-slappin' every idiot out there with a leaf blower first? I grew up in Michigan. We had this amazing invention called a rake. Worked like a charm...

[grumpy]

the asswipes that you all voted in are soooo smart that other forms of creating dust and air bourne particles are not regulated!!!WTF
also, what was put on Cottonwood cyn Rd to control dust?? some said oil!! if true, I take it that these geniuses figure that oil is safer then dust:confused: why don't we just coat them in lead and mandate that all the children play on it!!!!!
city of Phx is citing homes with unapproved drive/park surfaces.

[lvanst]

I live on un-incorporated land. They don't cite anyone up here for anything. You can pretty much run naked with a chainsaw, as long as you cleanup after yourself...

There's a balance somewhere between Nazi HOA and my neighborhood. Let me know if you find that place...

[AzBearFan]

Trust me, construction sites are getting hit hard! We received a 5K fine last year. Now, we don't allow someone to sneeze unless they are on a wet patch of dirt. The fines for construction are now 13K per incident. I have had two inspections this year at the airport and we only have about 500 sqft of disturbed dirt. So yes, they are serious about this and will issue fines if need be. Best practice is to slow down on any dirt road near Phoenix.


agreed, I am a superintendent for a major home builder and we have gotten inspected every week since January.

some of the fineable offenses: loose debris on lots, more than 25 feet total visible tire tracks in entire subdivision (ours is 500 lots and 1/2 mile square), anyone parked on dirt, any dust emitted on drop test which is a 5/8 inch diameter steel ball dropped from 1 foot. If it creates dust, you are in violation.

believe me, homebuilders are not the problem, its ag. until they realize that and grow the balls to take care of it, we are all in for a world of shit and it will only get worse. In 2007, valley home builders paid over $5.3 million in fines. Ag paid 0. Go figure. Thats not counting the extra money forked out for implementing processes to comply. My company spent over $7 million on our dust control program

[AZrockbum]

My wife and I drove down to picacho to hike on saturday. with about a 25mph crosswind farmers were out plowing the fields. That dust was going strait over towards 10 and it was thick, you had to slow down to drive through it. meanwhile the retail that is going up in queen creek paves the parkinglot before they do anything else, even then they have to go through thousands of gallons of water to keep all dust down. its not hard to figure out where the dust is actually coming from.

[Kaistie]

Exactly! Do you guys remember the terrible accident that happened on I-10 out by Tonopah about three-four years ago? Well, we were building the new high school and our project was about 1 mile North of I-10. Well between us and the freeway was a huge field that a farmer had just tilled. Well, a huge cloud of dust blew accross the freeway causing a major accident that killed 10 people. We had been performing dust control throughout the project, but the farmer had done nothing. There were a dozen helicopters flying over our project all day. Nothing was every said since we had all our dust contol methods in place. Nothing was every siad to the farmer as well. I guarantee if the dust had blown off our site and caused that accident we would have been nailed to the cross.

[AZrockbum]

Exactly! Do you guys remember the terrible accident that happened on I-10 out by Tonopah about three-four years ago? Well, we were building the new high school and our project was about 1 mile North of I-10. Well between us and the freeway was a huge field that a farmer had just tilled. Well, a huge cloud of dust blew accross the freeway causing a major accident that killed 10 people. We had been performing dust control throughout the project, but the farmer had done nothing. There were a dozen helicopters flying over our project all day. Nothing was every said since we had all our dust contol methods in place. Nothing was every siad to the farmer as well. I guarantee if the dust had blown off our site and caused that accident we would have been nailed to the cross.

The accident i had last year (7 cars total, no injuries) was from blowing dust on I10 between the peak and the town of picacho. TONS of farms out there. I am pleased to say the neighborhood i purchased in displaced farmland.

[Mark in Az]

any dust emitted on drop test which is a 5/8 inch diameter steel ball dropped from 1 foot. If it creates dust, you are in violation.


I just can't imagine how we would have enough water to pass that test:eek:

[Crash]

I wonder how many gallons of water we waste each day keeping the dust down?

[AzBearFan]

I wonder how many gallons of water we waste each day keeping the dust down?
on my site we use about 40-50k gallons a month on a site with 500 homesites. good thing we don't live in a desert or have any kind of drought going on....

[TacomaNic]

I'm sensing a flat black paint job and some night vision goggles in my near future! :mad:

no kiddin i was already going to paint my rig flat black once i got the money, but now it is kind of a necessity. f-in hippies