The hourly pollution reading in Tooele County as of 4 p.m. Tuesday showed values of 38.1 micrograms per cubic meter, while an hour earlier it was hovering in the high 50s. The federal threshold is 35 micrograms per cubic meter.
Fine particulate readings in Tooele were well above the federal threshold imposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
"In Salt Lake City I am looking south and I can't see any mountains from my perspective right now," he said Tuesday afternoon. "In western Utah and Nevada, the typical basins where we have the dry lakes and playas, they tend to dry up in the springtime and so it is not unusual to have winds that dry out the surface more and then train that dust that impacts the Wasatch Front," Bird said.
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