Anchorage Bowl filling with dust
Anchorage, Alaska - Most residents of Anchorage simply not far from the dust in these days. Cars are brown and snow is brown, and the city is trying to adopt a new approach for the management of the annual season of dust.
Breathing in Alaska, that the fresh air, it is not so easy these days.
Anchorage resident George Blevins, he said to be employed.
“It’s true today, dusty and difficult, sometimes, for some people,” said Blevins. “It is quite dusty, because all the rocks. Move over rock bottom of the time, when they normally. ”
When it comes to air quality in New York in early spring, the experts say, the dust is typical.
Steve Morris, the program director of air quality.
“Certainly an increase of dust in the plains of the year,” says Morris. “Ice begins to melt and literally tons of equipment on the road.”
The city is a different approach to this year: It is the dissemination of a new chemical on the shoulders and median of the road.
Morris said brine of magnesium chloride is allegedly maintained until the dust roads can be swept.
“Most of the dust, by the major roads of the city, the streets Tudor, Minnesota, the 36ths, and a large number is that the dust cloth, in the corridors and in the median, and this kind of things “Says Morris.
Morris said, it is an attempt, dust, studies show that makes people ill.
“There was a study in the mid-90 by Dr. Mary Ellen Gordian.
A study in the mid-1990’s by Dr. Mary Ellen Gordian’s shown Alaska is not like the dust of the dust in Lower Town 48
“The difference lies in the fact that more and more cars exposed to the smoke stacks of carbon-based, dust and dust is very well,” said Gordian.
Bachelor’s Gordian left of the dust in terms of physician visits.
“We have with us the assurances given,” said Gordian. “The number of times a person visits a doctor, and we have seen the light of day, if it was high dust and pollution days with low pollution and dust, which has been found, there was a lot increased and the number of visits to the doctor if Ging pollution. ”
It is a problem, she says not be deleted.
“We find that some dust problem is still with us,” said Gordian.
It is an accepted fact Blevins.
“I just clean up what I can,” said Blevins. “Because if it’s not easy, it builds up and builds up, then it’s really bad.”
A 24-hour hotline of the air quality is responsible for the region in Anchorage 343-4899.
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