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 Thursday, July 29, 2010 Volume: 24, Issue: 52
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New Times / NewsThe following articles were printed from New Times [newtimesslo.com] - Volume 24, Issue 32
Share and Enjoy: Click the links below to share this article with others. Dust in the wind?BY COLIN RIGLEY
SLO County health commissioners want county supervisors to do whatever they can to “stabilize” the Oceano dunes and warn residents downwind of the popular off-road recreation site they might be at risk. Commissioners were responding to a particulate study recently released by the Air Pollution Control District, which found that off roading at the state-owned park is kicking up high levels of sand into the air. Though there haven’t been any concrete local links between airborne sand from the dunes and respiratory problems, health officials said there are other studies linking conditions like asthma to high levels of such particulates. It’s unclear what power county supervisors have in addressing the issue, but some opponents of four-wheeled recreation in the dunes suggested the county could shut down portions of the park to off-road vehicles Share and Enjoy: Click the links below to share this article with others. |
    
Political Watch 07.29
Community Notebook 07.29
Hobnobbing With Helen
D.A.R.E. to be Lazarus? - Despite bad economic weather, the anti-drug program can be resurrected
Never, Neverland? - A proposal to turn Michael Jackson's former home into a state park has locals saying 'just beat it'
Two years of achievement
'Flight of the Valkyries,' Santa Maria style
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