Day 7 – Tuesday 26/02/2019

06:30 pre-start

06:45 calibrate air samplers

07:00 hours placement of air samplers at A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, and A6

07:15 hours check of wind speed and direction: 0 to 1 m/s ESE

07:30 hours check of dust levels in real time (PM10s): 0 to 0.010mg/m3

08:hours check of air sampling pumps and activities

10:00 hours check of PM10s: remaining between the range of 0 to 0.010 mg/m3

12:00 check of air sampling and activities, more water on area 1 and 2 were required to keep dust down.

13:00 hours check of PM10s: between 0 and 0.20 mg/m3. Slight increases due to increasing wind strength. Levels upwind compared to downwind of job sites approximately the same i.e. no dust migrating offsit.

14:30 hours check of air sampling pumps and activities.

15:00 hours wind strength has subsided to between 0 to 2 m/s

15:30 hours PM10s at between 0 and 0.20 mg/m3

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