Utah will begin reviewing strategic locations for the placement of four new dust monitors to capture wind events over the Great Salt Lake's exposed bed to determine the levels of arsenic and other pollutants carried to the Wasatch Front.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Air Quality Division's technical team will begin reviewing strategic locations for the placement of four new dust monitors to capture wind events over the Great Salt Lake's exposed bed to determine the levels of arsenic and other pollutants carried to the Wasatch Front.
The Utah Legislature provided $232,000 for the monitors, but more importantly, the funds to carry out the analysis, Bird said. Bird said once the monitors are in place and enough analysis has been done, the state can work on any necessary remediation strategies. It is a secondary pollutant regulated by the EPA and also formed as a result of emissions from vehicles, industrial plants and boilers.
Bird noted that Utah is not alone in its struggles, and other areas in the Intermountain West are facing challenges as well, includingUtah's continuing and pressing problem of anomalous ozone formation in the Uinta Basin in the winter months also received funding and extension of one of the most far-reaching and ambitious studies of its kind to study the hazardous pollutant in eastern Utah's oil and gas country.
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