Frisbee Dust Deposit Gauge Method for the Determination of Deposited Ambient Dustfall

Environmental responsibilities are becoming an increasingly important part of our everyday lives. Major sources of particulate emissions, with all of their associated health issues, from coal burning, demolition, diesel combustion, civil engineering, construction work, mining and quarrying; are now major environmental concerns.

By their nature:

• QUARRYING (drill rigs, mobile plant, blasting operations, earth shifting etc.)
• CONSTRUCTION SITES (earth-shifting operations, tipping grounds, concrete batching and pouring etc.)
• DEMOLITION (mobile plant, controlled collapse and pre-weakening, road milling, cutting, grinding, grit blasting, reclamation)
• CIVIL ENGINEERING (concrete batching and pouring, construction plant, materials handling and storage, etc.)
• LANDFILL (tipping, earth-shifting,etc.)

All have the potential to create dust. Guidance ranges from best practice to legislation such as:

• BREEAM: the Environmental Assessment Method for Buildings Around The World
• The UK Air Quality Strategy; the Air Quality Regulations 1997
• UK Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations
• European Commission Directive 80/779
• Directive 96/62/EC Ambient Air Quality

Particulates in ambient air can be difficult to control and are usually released incidentally by industrial or other human activities. Our qualified and experienced consultants measure and manage quarrying, construction and demolition sites across the country, using Dry Frisbee Dust Deposit Gauges; which collect the various particulate incidentally released by industry. Substances such as: soot (carbon), asphalts, soil (sand, silt and clay), metals, and inorganic salts (sea salt) - varying in size and shape. 
Fine particles can be carried from sites even in light winds and may have an adverse effect on the local environment and on the health of local residents, as well as those working on site. Nuisance dust emissions from quarrying, construction work, civil engineering,landfill and demolition activities have all had major impacts on residential housing areas and motorways, along with having a detrimental effect on various water bodies (streams, springs, lakes, ponds) ecology; including groundwater pollution.
We would take sampling to standard methodologies defined in ‘Guideline values for dustfall based on likelihood of complaint, appropriate for results from the Frisbee(with foam insert) dust deposit gauges, suggested by Vallack and Shillito(1998).’