Environmental complaint received 2023-07-10 12:30:00
Source: Toll Brothers (Balfour) Momentum Midtown
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We have a serious situation in Midtown with a construction site emitting large amounts of white plastic pellets from sanding of their high-rise insulation. It is blanketing the neighborhood, floating in the air, ending in pools, etc. The situation is awful. Please provide emergency intervention for this issue.

Thanks much for your help.

The building in question is the Toll Brothers (Balfour) Momentum Midtown towers between Spring and West Peachtree, at 1018 W. Peachtree St. NW, Atlanta, GA 30309 (https://www.momentummidtown.com).

The white pellets from them sanding their building insulation without any protection are overwhelming the neighborhood. We have a lot of construction around us, but it has never reached a point where we cannot use the Aqua Condominium pool which is actually hidden from the construction by our building, but yet is filled with white pellets.

This is the building in question. It is the same building that had the collapsed crane. You can see the white Styrofoam insulation being applied and being sanded down generating showers of white particles in a half mile radius.

Can you please help us by activating the appropriate enforcement unit of the city. We cannot have our pool disabled for the entire summer because of the careless construction practices of Balfour.

This is the worse construction pollution I have seen here in Midtown since 2017.

The construction is bringing with it challenges as we know, and I want to raise the issue of the amount of flying debris and small plastic particles coming from these construction sites.

In particular the building right across from us (the one where the crane lost its ballast recently) is being covered by a white plastic isolation material (Styrofoam or something similar) which after installation is sanded in a process which sends a rain of very little while pellets in a radius of probably a half a mile. Our building swimming pool which is actually on the back of Aqua has a large quantity of these pellets floating. This is concerning because of the amount of dirt generated in Midtown, but also because as we know these debris do not just disappear, they create a long lasting pollution and contribute to the awful microplastic pollution of our water systems and oceans.

My question to you is what can be done to force construction companies to reduce the amount of dust generated?