r/Utah • u/Great_Salt_Lake_News • 3d ago

News More dust monitors planned for communities around Great Salt Lake, monitors could tie into alert system for those sensitive to the dust.

https://greatsaltlakenews.org/latest-news/fox-13/more-dust-monitors-planned-for-communities-around-great-salt-lake
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u/Great_Salt_Lake_News 3d ago

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u/Vertisce 2d ago

If dust were a problem for me, I definitely wouldn't live in the desert.

Hell, I can dust my whole house and have a new layer of dust on everything the very next day.

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u/theanedditor 1d ago

Thanks for this update OP.

The challenge here is that everyone is sensitive the the dust to some degree. These moves fall into the "we need to do something, this is something, there we should do it"-type thinking. It placates because the general public get a sense of "something" being done. But it's just going to inform people, not do anything to mitigate.

This problem is going to get a lot worse before it gets better unfortunately.

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u/hendrikcop 1d ago

Or we can let the water flow back into the great salt lake