Agriculture production cause farm element damage

Among the services offered under the Hongxing Solutions banner is the cone crusher Equipment Protection Plan, under which Hongxing assumes responsibility for repairing or replacing all components for a period of five years or 10000 hours of operation.
Finding it unusual that arsenic would be at an asphalt site, DHEC officials say they learned that a fertilizer plant had operated on the same land in the early 1900s. Further soil sampling turned up the lead, Templeton said. She gave no immediate details on the levels of the contaminants found.
"That's a big deal," she said.

According to the EPA, ingesting too much arsenic can lead to skin damage, circulatory issues and increased risks of cancer. Lead consumption, per the agency, can cause physical and mental developmental delays, kidney problems and high blood pressure.

Construction classifier equipment sales in China fell -37% in the first half of the year to 196,370 machines, compared to 314,090 units in January to June 2011, according to a new report by Off-Highway Research. The specialist forecasting company says the market is expected to fall -30% in total this year to 343,190 machines, compared to 2011's record volume of 487,800 pieces of equipment.
Members of the nearby Rosewood neighborhood have hired Columbia attorney Dick Harpootlian to represent their interests, and DHEC says a public meeting will be held next month. A local high school has several sports facilities in the area, and an urban farm is within one mile of the plant.

It was immediately clear how many people live in the footprint of the old fertilizer plant. Templeton said officials would be notifying residents later this week and asking for permission to test their soil for contaminants.

Among the high volume equipment types, the downturn has been most severe in mobile cranes, where volumes were down -45% compared to a year ago, at 12,600 units for the first six months of 2012. Hydraulic excavator volumes meanwhile were down -41% to 64,000 units, while wheeled loader sales have fallen -35% to 87,500 machines. The compact equipment sector was less severely affected, with a -20% fall to 20,000 machines.
"We want to start knocking on the doors of the residents who live in the footprint of the former fertilizer plant to see if we need to test their soil," Templeton said.

Sam Cannon, vice president of operations for Associated Asphalt, said in an email that his company discovered arsenic at the plant in May and promptly notified DHEC regulators. Cannon said neither arsenic nor lead are used in the production of asphalt, nor are they a byproduct of the ball mill production process.