My colleague, Mary Alice Murphy, touched on this in yesterday’s edition of the Silver City Daily Press, but here’s data from some of the air-monitoring sites set up around Hurley for Tuesday’s demolition. Most of the trend lines appear to show an increase in the early morning prior to the demolition, with particulate levels dropping during the event and until the winds picked up later that afternoon:
Site 81
Site 82
Site 83
Site 84
Site 94
You can view all the data by checking this Web site.
Ray the Wrecker
What were the dust particles comprised of? Were they asbestos? silica? lead? copper? arsenic?