Thank you to local ABC affiliate News10 for reporting on an ongoing and potentially dangerous issue in the town of Ravena: fugitive dust. Reporter Anya Tucker interviewed several homeowners today who live within sight of the Lafarge cement plant. Since Halloween, they have complained about a mysterious powdery substance coating their cars, playgrounds, and homes. A substance that is not easy to wash off. The CAC has to wonder what this gritty dust does to the lungs of those that breathe it in? For more on this story, please watch News10.
I bought my house across from the cement plant two years ago. The dust had always been like this for me. Had I known I wouldn’t have bought my home. I’ve already had to get rid of my black car because it look so old do to the dust and cleaning it wouldn’t get rid of the dullness. I also brought this up then i grieved my tax increase in May and they stated that it used to be worse until LaFarge had to build some sort of room to control the dust.
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