Sand and dust from an industrial site is causing chaos for a Warwick woman who claims it is turning a profit at the expense of neighbours.Tanya Boyles-Raynor says that a sand sifter at nearby Dynamic Excavating on Quarry Hill is causing clouds of sand to drift onto her family home, covering her lawn with sediment and filling her water tank with sludge.“We have had the Environmental Department come and test our water. My house and the house next door, we had to put Clorox in our water because of what was in our water.“We don’t know what’s buried in the sand. Cows, horses, chickens, dogs, whatever, and all this stuff is blowing onto our roofs.”But asked about the complaints, Eddie Roque of Dynamic Excavation said that nothing was going on at the Quarry Hill site. “I honestly don’t know what they are talking about,” he said.Ms Boyles-Raynor, who has lived at her Cobbs Hill home for 50 years, said the problem has been ongoing for most of the last 30 years.She said her neighbours had successfully campaigned to stop the sifting however Dynamic Excavation was given approval for a construction permit and a six-month operating licence for a sifter in March.The permit specifies that the sifter must be operating in a relatively sheltered area and must not be operated when the wind is higher than ten knots; Ms Boyles-Raynor said dust still escapes the site.“My roof has to be cleaned every six, seven months. It does not last a year,” she said. “I have to wash my windows at least once a month to keep them clean. You have to ask yourself when you’re giving approval, if this was in your neighbourhood, what would you do? I asked why don’t they do like Belco does, and if they get your roof dirty, they clean it up. I called him down here long before I started complaining, and he said there was nothing he could do.“I’ve been fighting this situation for a number of years. He’s making a profit at the expense of the residents.”Ms Boyles-Raynor said that she has received a letter from the Environmental Department, which said that data regarding airborne dust will be collected while the six-month licence is active, but they are still waiting on the arrival of monitoring equipment.However, it also suggested that the airborne dust could be coming not from the sifter, but from the unpaved ground at the site.The letter, signed by Environmental Engineer Geoffrey Smith says: “On visits to the sites when it has been windy, I have seen wind vortices as a result of the entrained dust in them, but on these occasions the dust appeared to be coming from the main unpaved areas.“The limestone base is extremely soft and can break down to very fine dust as a result of vehicle traffic.“Currently the lack of actual, quantifiable data of the amounts of airborne dust and its source has led to their being insufficient evidence to present to the Environmental Authority to make a truly informed decision.”Stuart Hayward, chairman of the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce (BEST) said the problem has been a long-standing one for the residential neighbourhood that surrounds the site.“This is not new. These people have been dealing with it since the 1970s,” he said. “It’s industrial creep. What we at BEST want to do is empower ordinary citizens in our community to get things done as they should be.”