The Department of Environment Climate Change and Water (DECCW) received two calls from residents about the blast from Integra Coal’s Camberwell mine on Wednesday.

At 1pm on Wednesday residents were alarmed to see the fall out after a notified blast at the mine’s north pitt.

Residents say it was the fourth time in a month that they have dealt with the excessive dust clouds.

Not being included in last weeks Camberwell Cumulative Impact Review has already made the long term residents angered about how they are treated and the regular occurrence of orange dust flumes like Wednesdays’ is compounding the issue.

A meeting was called by Hunter New England Health on Wednesday night to go through the Camberwell review with village residents.

Eight residents from Middle Falbrook attended with Greame Cheetham saying his neighbours were annoyed at the number of averages and estimations included in the study.

“It needs to be based on the bad times when they happen, not an average,” Mr Cheetham said.

“There has got to be someway to put a stop to it, even if it costs the mines a bit of money to put something in place, this is our lives and livelihoods they are impacting” he said yesterday.

“Everyone knows these clouds are dangerous, so why isn’t something being done about it.

“If the new compliance officers are placed in Singleton, I hope they are out and about every day and not closed up in an office waiting for us to call them with complaints, because that is no different to the way we are being treated now.”

Mr Cheetham made a call to the mine after the blast on Wednesday and as of yesterday had not received a response to his complaint.

Once DECCW have reviewed the incident report they will determine what further action is appropriate.

The Singleton Argus contacted Integra Coal yesterday but did not receive a response by the time of going to print.