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Industrial Sand Mining in Western Wisconsin: Resources for Environmental Monitoring and Advocacy


Table of Contents

Background Information

People and Places

Particulate Matter

  • Background Information
  • Tools
  • Monitoring

Advocacy Strategies

Action Oriented Resources

Research in progress and Wikis


Background Information

info to be transcluded from [Industrial Sand Mining on Nonmetallic Mining wiki] (https://publiclab.org/wiki/nonmetallicmining#Industrial+Sand+Mining)


People and Places

The first permitting for Frac Sand mining in Wisconsin started in late 2006 (Pearson, 2015). 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 this page.

Cited References: Pearson, T. 2015. Contested Landscapes.


Particulate Matter

info transcluded from: * Background Information (www.publiclab.org/wiki/pm)

breakout pages: ** filter systems (https://publiclab.org/wiki/active-pm)

** optical systems (https://publiclab.org/wiki/optical-pm)

** passive systems (https://publiclab.org/wiki/passive-pm)


Advocacy Strategies

  • Legislation in plain english
  • Advocacy pathways people have used in the past

Action Oriented Resources

Link:: https://publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand-action-oriented-resources


Research in progress and Wikis

power-tag to research notes and wikis tagged with "silica", "particulate matter", "dust", "wisconsin", and "frac sand"