Laserfiche WebLink
Citizen Interests O <br />This, then, is one area of the regulations where annoyance <br />~ plays as much a part in the thinking behind the regulations as does <br />damage. I[ does not totally eliminate the problem, but it does <br />I bring it within reasonable bounds. Airblast can be monitored, in <br />the same way as ground motion, and if an airblast level is measured <br />at an occupied dwelling that is in excess of the regulatory limits, <br />then the mine operator is in violation of the regulations. <br />4 In fairness to the operator, it night also be stated that ~ <br />airblast is the most 'difficult of all the adverse effects of i <br />blasting to control, because of the many weather and atmospheric <br />variables, and other factors outside the control of the mine ~ <br />operator. OSMRE does not of course condone at any time arty breach ~ <br />of the regulations, and any such recorded breaches constitute <br />D violations regardless of the circumstances. OSMRE does however <br />concede that an occasional airblast violation does not <br />automatically indicate unwillingness to comply on the part of the <br />I operator. <br />E~ <br />