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The province should relocate a Calgary gravel pit creating dust that has nearby residents up in arms, a city councillor said Sunday.

Recent measures taken to reduce the noise and dust produced by the gravel operation feeding the construction of the southwest ring road has failed to satisfy West Springs residents whose homes back on to the facility.

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Area Coun. Jeff Davison said he’ll tour the site on Tuesday but suggested there’s already a way to mitigate concerns — by moving the pit a few hundred metres to the southwest.

“It’ll drop the elevation down and also bring the air monitoring stations into the right locations,” he said.

A week ago, Alberta Transportation, which oversees the operation run by consortium KGL, temporarily shut down work so measures could be taken to reduce the annoyance to neighbours whose homes are about 100 metres from the site.

But neighbours such as Mack Kay say those moves have done little to reduce the amount of dust in the air, which could pose a health risk.