Canterbury Mornings

Residents living near a Christchurch quarry are off to the Environment Court to stop it moving closer to their homes. The Regional Council granted Road Metals consent to enlarge at a hearing last week.A submission, from an independent air quality controller, maintains there would be little impact from dust from the quarry.But local Annell McDonagh says, while the dust isn't visible,  monitors on her property show levels of PM10,  which can contribute to heart and lung disease, often exceed recommended amounts. "When it's really high, I can walk around that monitor and not see any dust at all because this stuff is invisible. It gets into our houses, especially at the moment when using heat pumps, it gets in there."