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How does dust, including inhalable particulate matter (PM 2.5 and PM 10) from gravel mining affect you?

1.Are you affected by dust from a pit or quarry?
2.How long have you lived near a pit or quarry?
3.Where is the gravel mine or rock quarry located that affects you? Please provide an address or ALPS number, https://www.ontario.ca/page/find-pits-and-quarries
4.Have you experienced non-health related impacts from dust particles since living near aggregate extraction activities?
5.Did you know there are known health impacts from exposure to invisible dust, microparticulate matter, ( PM2.5 and PM10) from gravel mining?
6.Did you know that scientists assert there is no safe level of inhaled PM2.5, and that accordingly the World Health Organization has adopted long-term exposure air quality guidelines of 5 ug/m3 (micrograms/cubic metre) for PM 2.5, compared to 10 ug/m3 in Ontario?
7.Have you experienced any of the following health conditions since living near a gravel mine?
8.Do the health impacts of living near a pit or quarry worry you?
9.RGMC is commencing an air quality campaign with the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. Are you interested in finding out about how air quality impacts from pits and quarries affects your health?
10.Dust should be controlled on the mine/quarry site. If best practices aren't followed uncontrolled fine dust particles can be blown by winds to the surrounding community and the environment around the mine. Do you think the provincial Ministry of the Environment should be doing more to protect communities from harmful dust, PM 2.5 and PM 10?
11.While regulating gravel mining is a provincial responsibility, municipalities can enact policies to protect the health and well-being of their residents. Do you know if your municipality has an air quality bylaw?
13.Please provide your name and email
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