A dust mite community with freeways and infrastructure and elected dust mite officials.
Now St Elmo epitomises what we imagine when we think of dust bowl communities: ramshackle wooden houses neatly lined up on "Main Street" in the middle of nowhere.
Little research has been done into the presence of silica dust in communities near mines.
Exposure to contaminant-laden fugitive dust in communities located in mining areas is not unusual.
We found no significant decreases in urinary pesticide metabolite concentrations or in pesticide residue concentrations in house and vehicle dust from intervention community households compared with control community households after adjusting for baseline.
"I'm having a big problem with the fact that they're not doing everything they can possibly do about the dust," he told community board members at a meeting Tuesday, his casual gray T-shirt standing out in a crowded room of dark suits.
So, if you're still questing for the perfect boozer, why not pop on to the website, scan the comments for a local place with just the right mix of character, comfort and community, dust off your drinking jacket and cap, head out to that drinkers' utopia and, well, ruin it?
Previously we documented the presence of lead, arsenic and PAHs, in soil above Canadian guidelines, and in house dust in the communities surrounding the site [Lambert, TW, Lane, S. Lead, arsenic, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soil and house dust in the communities surrounding the Sydney, Nova Scotia, tar ponds. Environ Health Perspect 2004; 112 35 41.].
Locals around Maralinga spoke about a black mist of radioactive dust over their communities following the explosions.
With the Penguin Random House merger now done and dusted, a vast community of book industry folk and readers are sighing a sad sigh of disappointment that the company didn't take the bull by the horns, or the penguin by the beak, and rebrand as Random Penguin.
