Fugitive Dust Handbook

PREFACE

In 2004 the Western Regional Air Partnership’s (WRAP) Dust Emissions Joint Forum (DEJF) selected Countess Environmental to prepare a fugitive dust handbook and an associated website (www.wrapair.org/forums/dejf/fdh) for accessing the information contained in the handbook. The material presented in the original handbook released on November 15, 2004 addressed the estimation of uncontrolled fugitive dust emissions and emission reductions achieved by demonstrated control techniques for eight major fugitive dust source categories. In 2006 WRAP hired Countess Environmental to update the handbook. The updates included revising each chapter in the handbook to reflect the new PM2.5/PM10 ratios developed for WRAP by the Midwest Research Institute (MRI) in 2005, addressing four additional major fugitive dust source categories as well as several minor source categories, and updating the existing chapters.

All of the material contained in the handbook is available for downloading from this website, either in its entirety or by individual sections. The website includes links to other useful resources containing information on fugitive dust that are not included in the handbook. The handbook addresses the estimation of uncontrolled fugitive dust emissions and emission reductions achieved by demonstrated control techniques for twelve major fugitive dust source categories: agricultural tilling, agricultural harvesting, construction and demolition, materials handling, paved roads, unpaved roads, mineral products industry, abrasive blasting, livestock husbandry, as well as windblown dust emissions from agricultural fields, material storage piles, and exposed open areas. The handbook is not intended to suggest any preferred method to be used in preparation of SIPs and/or Conformity analyses, but rather to identify the most commonly adopted methodologies used in the western US.