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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 Leverage Points

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 Leverage Points

info transculded from www.publiclab.org/wiki/peopleandplaces#Wisconsin -- the advocacy section of it


Action Oriented Resources

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

links to resources, many of which will be on www.publiclab.org/wiki/peopleandplaces#Wisconsin -- the advocacy section of it, or on www.publiclab.org/wiki/particulatematter/regulations; some will also be where the monitoring information lives -- need to decide that


Research in progress and Wikis

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