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Too much dust? Call the county

Friday, Feb. 7, 2003 | 10:06 a.m.

Dust got you down? Clark County Air Quality Management might be able to help.

The department is offering a new tool people can use to help air-pollution inspectors fight the area's dust pollution problems. The hotline, 385-DUST (3878), will help the agency's field officers locate sources of dust and order corrections.

Fine dust from construction sites, vacant land and off-road activities is a serious pollutant in the Las Vegas Valley, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The local air-pollution agency is charged with cleaning up the problem.

"We need to reach people who are kicking up dust on days when we don't have severe winds," Air Quality Director Christine Robinson said. "That's the dirt that ends up making up a lot of the haze you see hanging over the valley on a still day."

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