Kicking Up Dust

[T_Hip]

Hello,

A small company with a small parking lot (approx. 10 car parking capacity) routinely has someone blow dirt and dust from their parking lot, using a noisy gas powered leaf blower. This company is located in a residential area, and is surrounded by residential homes.

The dust clouds float right into my windows and covers everything in my house. I fix computers and have several PCs open (no walls on the PC chassis), and the components inside of the computers are covered with dust due to the dirt cloud kicked up by the leaf blower. There are absolutely no leafs on the parking lot in question.

I'm assuming leaf blowing IS legal and 3 hours of dirt blowing is not. 'Assuming' and 'Knowing' are 2 different things. Is it legal for the company in question to use the dirt blower, and is there anything we (myself and surrounding residents) can do to legally have this dirt blowing stopped.

If necessary, we can take time stamped video showing no leaves, a huge cloud of dirt and the time stamp will show the length of time this person is using blower in parking lot. If you cannot advise me, could you please point me towards a FREE Canadian law forum.

Thank you

T_Hip

 

[libra58]

You may want to check Your local "nuisance"& litter ordinances..the same method of lot cleaning has been a problem for me also here in the states, and I never really found any laws pertaining to blowers being used for litter,dust,dirt or debris...so I used the local nuisance & littering ordinances...as they never actually removed the litter..just blew it into the surrounding area...

 

[HomeGuru]

Hello,

A small company with a small parking lot (approx. 10 car parking capacity) routinely has someone blow dirt and dust from their parking lot, using a noisy gas powered leaf blower. This company is located in a residential area, and is surrounded by residential homes.

The dust clouds float right into my windows and covers everything in my house. I fix computers and have several PCs open (no walls on the PC chassis), and the components inside of the computers are covered with dust due to the dirt cloud kicked up by the leaf blower. There are absolutely no leafs on the parking lot in question.

I'm assuming leaf blowing IS legal and 3 hours of dirt blowing is not. 'Assuming' and 'Knowing' are 2 different things. Is it legal for the company in question to use the dirt blower, and is there anything we (myself and surrounding residents) can do to legally have this dirt blowing stopped.

If necessary, we can take time stamped video showing no leaves, a huge cloud of dirt and the time stamp will show the length of time this person is using blower in parking lot. If you cannot advise me, could you please point me towards a FREE Canadian law forum.

Thank you

T_Hip

**A: US Law only. Why did you delete the state law question? Is it because you are in Ontario Canada and do not want us to know that you are not following posting instructions?