BARNES ROAD COMPLAINT RECEIVED
Help FEB 0 3 2020
CITY OF SALEM
BOARD OF HEALTH
Woodlands Road, Clark Ave and Barnes read, Sale Ma. 01970
Our neighborhood is drowning in Crystalline Silica: a respiratory human
lung carcinogen.
A Developer has devastated all the wild life and our neighborhood
health and standard of living.
He received a special permit for cluster zone.
The tradeoff was to preserve more wildlife space.
The area looks like a bomb has hit it. All wildlife was killed off by his
Quarry operation (SEE AIERAL PHOTOS).
For five years he is running a rock crushing, trucking material in and out
running, (50 to 100 trucks a day); as a full blown quarry, with clouds of
Crystalline Silica: a human lung carcinogen everywhere.
It is on our cars, in our windows and in our lungs chocking us.
He has use the charade of building houses, but he is making up to
$5,000 for every truck load, which is far more profitable per a day of
trucking and Quarry operation, verses building houses.
We need your help to stop the health risk Madness to our personal
wellbeing.
Thank you in anticipation of your help in this matter.
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Silica Dust — Cancer
Crystalline silica has been classified as a human
lung carcinogen.
Silica dust is harmful when inhaled into your lungs. ...
Exposure to silica dust can lead to the development of
lung cancer, silicosis (an irreversible
scarring and stiffening of the lungs), kidney
disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The source of Cancer Causing Crystalline
Silica is all Earth Material processing
operations; such as Rock crusher, Quarry
Operation, Excavation, Excavator bucket
loads dropped into air into trucks, Truck
loads dumped into the air to be processed,
and trucking to and from site. Material
movement contaminates all houses and
residents with the danger of the Cancer
Crystalline Silica.
Osha advises to avoid all such areas.
Homes in the area will have this dust
gathered in their windows and screens for
years to come.
Children should never be exposed to this
area
References:
American Lung Association
American Cancer society
CDC Centers for disease Control and
Prevention
American Thoracic Society
OSHA
Every breath you, your children, visiting relatives
and visiting children take inside or outside, in the
yard, around your house, everyone is at risk.
The Quarry Operation surrounds your house;
see photos.
You witness every day of the quarry operation,
Rock Crushers running, trucks trailing the
Crystalline Silica dust in and out, excavators
loading and digging.
The hydraulic excavator hammering on blasted
rock. The Rock Crusher machines crushing
blasted rock from "other sites."
Every 3 trucks in, has one with a covered load of
blasted rock for the Blue Rock Crushers that are
Industrial Machines.
This violates developer's Residential Subdivision
permit and it puts you and your family at a great
health risk.
Originally, the developer had pushed the permit
to allow incidental site work to Crush and
Process and Sell material that was on site.
But the Building Department has stated that
outside site material, brought in to Crush is not
allowed in that permit.
The developer has a long-term plan of years
using the site for quarry operations; it refused to
declare the adjoining lot as residential use, as
previous developers have done on Clark Ave.
Clark Ave. had a 3-acre commercial zoned lot
and the developers built 6 homes on it, keeping
with the residential neighborhood.
Woodlands Map at the beginning of your street
clearly shows the access road to this site, which
surrounds your homes.
When you bought, your Realtor and the Owner
did not explain the dangers of Crystalline Silica.
Silica causes; Lung Cancer, Silicosis (no Cure),
kidney disease and COPD Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease. These chronic illnesses can
lead to death.
Values
A new home at the entrance of a defacto Quarry
that is producing clouds of the Dangerous
Crystalline Silica is an unacceptable risk.
Inhaling crystalline silica leads to serious,
sometimes fatal illnesses including silicosis, lung
cancer, tuberculosis (in those with silicosis), and
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
This is the fifth year of this quarry operation; it is
expected to run indefinitely. Five to ten years
easily, is not out of question. (See Photos)
At present and over the next immediate years,
these homes are in an area, of a Silica health risk.
Location, location determines resale value of
homes.
This defacto quarry location, which carries a clear
and present health risk, is the very worst location.
A new house anywhere else is preferable.