## **Industrial Sand Mining in Western Wisconsin:** Resources for Environmental Monitoring and Advocacy This page is an introduction to frac sand issues and airborne particles, aimed at connecting concerned community groups, hardware developers, and scientists. You will find resources to: * connect with projects and people facing frac sand issues and particle pollution * learn about particle pollution, health, and regulations * explore options for addressing frac sand mining in your community ****** ### Table of Contents **Frac Sand Mining** | ----------------------|--------------------- [Background Information](https://publiclab.org/wiki/nonmetallicmining#Industrial+Sand+Mining) | This page gives information about the history of frac sand mining, what it is, what it is used for, and the environmental and human health concerns that surround it. [People and Places](wiki/wisconsin) | The first permitting for Frac Sand mining in Wisconsin started in late 2006 ([Pearson, 2015](http://wisconsinfracsand.blogspot.com/)). Since then, thousands of people have participated in the fight against the frac sand mining industry's negative effects. Learn more about the groups involved and what they are doing on the Wisconsin wiki page. [Particulate Matter Monitoring](/wiki/pm) | The PM Monitoring wiki includes information that explains how particles form in the air, how they affect human health, how they are regulated, and how they can be monitored. The wiki delves deep into different ways particles form with a focus on nonmetallic mining and [silica dust](https://publiclab.org/wiki/silica-monitoring). [Advocacy Leverage Points](https://publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand-advocacy-leverage-points) | This wiki discusses regulations surrounding frac sand mining and highlights local government leverage points towns and community groups can use to address frac sand issues. From here you can also link to the [Frac Sand Legislation wiki](https://publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand-legislation), which discusses national and state regulations and legislation related to air quality that are particularly relevant to frac sand issues. [Action Oriented Resources](https://publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand-action-oriented-resources) | The Action Oriented Resources wiki compiles many tools people can use in addressing frac sand issues. There are workshops on selecting advocacy strategies, guidelines for setting up an environmental monitoring program, resources for working with the media, tools for reporting pollution and contact information for state and county regulators. ***** ### Recent activity related to frac sand mining: [notes:frac-sand] ***** #### Outline of Wiki Documents [Background Information](https://publiclab.org/wiki/nonmetallicmining#Industrial+Sand+Mining) [People and Places](wiki/wisconsin) [Particulate Matter Monitoring](/wiki/pm) - [Silica dust](https://publiclab.org/wiki/silica-monitoring) - [Regulations on PM Monitoring](https://publiclab.org/wiki/pm-monitoring-regulations) - [Collecting Data on Particulate Matter](https://publiclab.org/wiki/pm-monitoring) - [Visual monitoring](/wiki/visual-pm) - [Filter-based monitoring](/wiki/filter-pm) - [Optical monitoring](/wiki/optical-pm) - [Passive monitoring](/wiki/passive-pm) - [Public Lab PM monitoring tool development](/wiki/pm-dev) - [Passive monitoring tool](https://publiclab.org/wiki/SEM-stub-pm) [Advocacy Leverage Points](https://publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand-advocacy-leverage-points) - [Frac Sand Legislation](https://publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand-legislation) [Action Oriented Resources](https://publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand-action-oriented-resources) - [Identify Advocacy Pathways Workshop](https://publiclab.org/wiki/choosing-advocacy-pathways) - [Start your own Environmental Monitoring Study](https://publiclab.org/wiki/start-enviro-monitor-study) - [Strategize a media campaign](https://publiclab.org/wiki/creating-a-media-campaign) **** ####Research in progress and Wikis Related to: [Silica](https://publiclab.org/tag/silica), [Particulate Matter](https://publiclab.org/tag/silica/tag/PM), [Passive-pm monitoring](https://publiclab.org/tag/passive-pm), [Wisconsin](https://publiclab.org/tag/wisconsin)....
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| liz | "oh no! I wonder if there's a way to make it more obvious that once someone has clicked "preview" to preview their comment, that the "preview" butto..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| jeffalk | "Hi @liz, I just lost my lengthy comment. I clicked on the "preview" button below and then wanted to change some things and couldn't get back and..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| joyofsoy | "Oh man. Where to start? Even before you correct based on a model, you would want some normalization by timestamp at maybe 5 minute or hour interval..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| liz | "hi @IshaGupta18 i'd love to see your guide to Simple Data grapher when it's ready :) " | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| liz | "Hi @jeffalk , thanks for offering help! Which are your favorite functions to use within Excel for data cleaning? Can you describe your process here? " | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| jeffalk | "Hi @stevie, @Aleah, @Cbarnes9, and @crispinpierce, stevie's list is excellent, but perhaps more detailed than is necessary. Please correct me if I..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| anurag123bhai | "thanks for sharing good things ....https://sarkariresultadda.com " | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| warren | "We didn't do any calibration at all, and are just reporting out the values produced by the sensor. Purple Air does a conversion to AQI, but do you ..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| warren | "@IshaGupta18 maybe your guide to Simple Data Grapher could address some of this? :+1: " | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| crispinpierce | "Thanks @stevie and @warren. So green is 140 degrees and represents 0 ug/m3 and red is zero degrees and >= 20 ug/m3? I'm curious about how the ca..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| warren | "This wheel shows the range of values from 0-140 that correspond to the 0-20 values from the sensor: " | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| warren | "Just that a really in-depth discussion on how this works can be found here: https://publiclab.org/questions/warren/04-18-2019/brainstorm-on-ways-to..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| stevie | "These particular sensors, the way they are programmed, is to test a range between 0 and 20 micrograms per cubic meter, where 0 is green, and red is..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| stevie | "@Aleah I recently took a Data Carpentry course on this topic which offered some neat tools and practices. For best practices, here are some of the..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| kamau19 | " Thanks. I am looking at the violations that take place when the material is being transported by rail or road from the site to the processing faci..." | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
| Shannon | " Chapter 82-86 may be helpful for you to look at. 83 especially because it is at the county level. What kinds of violations are you interested in? " | Read more » | over 5 years ago | |||
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| warren | "Added a follow-up to collect some reference images of respirable silica particles, here: https://publiclab.org/questions/warren/02-22-2018/what-do-..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "Added a follow-up to collect some reference images of respirable silica particles, here: https://publiclab.org/questions/warren/02-22-2018/what-do-..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "Note these prior questions related to this one: https://publiclab.org/notes/mathew/10-07-2016/sizing-images-at-portland-science-hackday And this,..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "This blog is by someone who works for an energy company, helping to mine frac sand, and publishes a book called "Finding Frac Sand" -- yikes. The ..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| warren | "TXSharon posted this note about photographs of sand dust from a sandbox: http://www.texassharon.com/2012/07/31/take-this-nice-fracking-sand-for-yo..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago | |||
| Ag8n | "Ok, are talking about the difference between amorphous silica and crystalline silica? The amorphous is generally safe and crystalline is generally..." | Read more » | over 6 years ago |