Posted on 02/17/2006 12:40:15 AM PST by BJungNan
Residents Rightfully Ask - Who should pay to clean my pool? Who should pay to get the coil-damaging dust out of my A/C unit at my home? Who should pay my water bill to clean up all this dust in my Yard?
We have heard of no good faith offer to compensate homeowners for the cost of cleaning up the dust by the developers that caused it. Will attorney fees be added to the developers clean up costs?
Affected homeowners group is looking at filing class-action suit for dust damages.
Irresponsible builders and inaction by city leaders who have been told about this problem for months have created bigger mess for the city than all the dust.
If you have a bill for the cost of clean up, save it. Document as much as you can. Submit pictures of developer dust at your home.
Desrt Hot Springs?
Yep, the city is Desert Hot Springs. Do you know of it?
Yes. I hope the residents prevail.
Who can I sue the next time a dust storm in NM nearly blocks out all visibility? {/sarcasm
All they need to do is deploy some dust abatement water spray systems.
I'd say this pretty well describes most if not all of Southern California entirely. There's that black dust everywhere, on everything and has been for years. Take a closer look at your outofdoor plants and steps and such.
Dust..deal with it you bunch of lazy asses.
Huh?
Around here, construction sites have water trucks to spray down the dust. If it's the slightest bit wet, it doesn't blow about.
Oh, OK.
Uh, Southern California is a desert, and as such it is a dust bowl. I just wonder if we cant tax the already housed residents for the dust created when their home was being built? Silly, silly people.
I like the lung pictures they display on their website. To get a lung THAT messed up, you would have to be a 3 pack a man, or work for 40 years spraying abestos into ships holds.
Development dust is outside, and you exposure to it would be limited to time it took to build whatever they are building. It takes a long time to wreck your lungs. I suspect this is much more about pools, air conditioner units, and car finishes.
Excellent point. I'd love to see their faces when someone mentions that to them.
If you live in a jungle...you are gonna have snakes.
If you live in a desert....you are gonna have dust.
If you live in New Orleans...............
oh, nevermind.......call FEMA
George Bush Hates Desert people.
The desert when undisturbed is not all that dusty. Yes, more so than a city. But, there is a natural crust that form in open desert that protects the soil from erosion. Without it, you get sand dunes.
What happens when large tracts of land are graded for construction is another story when you mix wind and the barren, graded soil. What you get is an engulfing sand sand storm.
Dust is so thick that it blows inside your car even with your window rolled up. It sticks to the sides of your house and your windows. Where you have touched your car, the oils from you hands attract and hold the dust.
Swimming pools must be drained and the dust scooped out.
You would think they would do that, wouldn't you. But, even though the law says they must, if the city will not enforce the law, what are you to do?
Quite literally, does anyone have any suggestions on what residents should do?
Yeah the residents should get on with life.
The development where this is will be downwind of 10 construction sites for the two years it will take to complete them all.
And, many of the sites are remaining graded but with no houses going in - the developers are speculating. They are peddling the projects that have been permitted. Meanwhile, they spew dust.
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