Dust Advisory Continues
Prince George, B.C. – The dust advisory for Prince George continues.
Once again, road dust in the bowl area of Prince George is being blamed for high levels of coars particulate. The provincial air quality objective for coarse particulates (PM10) is 50 micrograms per cubic metre, averaged over 24 hours. The 24 hour PM10 rolling average was 60 µg/m3 at the Plaza 400 downtown, 27 µg/m3 at College Heights and 48 µg/m3 at BCR at 9 this morning.
The levels of fine particulate, (PM2.5) are well within the provincial target of 25 micrograms per cubic metre, averaged over 24 hours. The 24 hour PM2.5 rolling average was 9 µg/m3 at the Plaza 400 downtown site and 7 µg/m3 at College Heights at 9 am today.
The Ministry of the Environment expects the advisory to remain in place at least until tomorrow afternoon, but an update will be provided later today.
Comments
Start the street cleaning!!
Welcome to PG. Its been like that this time of year for as long as I can remember.
Not dusty on Hart, in a month or so maybe!!
Ha, ha Donald Mackenzie, definitely not dusty on the Hart yet :)
I was at the Pine Centre Mall yesterday and the dust kicking up there was ridiculous. They need to sweep ASAP.
Should be cleaning now.
Like I said yesterday, I can’t believe they haven’t started sweeping already. All the main roads in the Bowl are snow free. The large Mall parking lots (while private property) are the worst offenders. Pine Centre, Wal-Mart, Cdn Tire, Parkwood. My guess is the City sweepers will be out on Tuesday
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