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<br />.. < 1 '\ <br /> RESOLUTION NO. 1954 <br /> .. . <br />'j STATE OF MINNESOTA <br /> COUNTY OF RAMSEY <br /> CITY OF NEW BRIGHTON <br /> RESOWTION GRANTING GORDON RENDERING COMPANY AN OFFENSIVE TRADES <br /> LICENSE AND AFFIXING CERTAIN CONDITIONS OF OPERATION <br /> WHEREAS The City of New Brighton is responsible for the <br /> general safety, health, welfare and well-being of its residents <br /> and has established codes to aid in carrying out this responsi- <br /> bility, and <br /> WHEREAS City Code Chapter 24 entitled Sewer Department <br /> Regulations and Chapter 15, Article VII, entitled Offensive Trades, <br /> and Metropolitan Sewer Board Rules and Regulations for the <br /> Metropolitan Disposal System and the Minnesota Pollution Control <br /> Agency Standards all apply to the operation of Gordon Rendering <br /> Company as a rendering business, and <br /> WHEREAS The City is. aware a.n4 has l:!~en Jnfprmed that certain <br /> deficiencies in the operation of GOfdori. R~nderfng Company I sold <br /> plant have occurred in the past withrespE!ct to these codes, rules, <br /> regulations and standards and could occur with the new plant, and <br /> WHEREAS These deficiencies when they have occurred, have <br /> affected the safety, health, welfaxe and well-being of The City1s <br /> residents in that they have caused plugging of the sanitary <br /> sewer and lift stations, interference with sanitary sewer service <br /> to others, dumping of raw sewage on the open ground and/or have <br /> often resulted in offensive odors in the neighborhood, and <br /> WHEREAS on August 5, 1977, stack emission tests, in complete <br /> conformance with American Society for Testing Materials Method <br /> D-1391-57, were performed on the ernmissions from the stack of <br /> the scrubber serving the Gordon Rendering Company plant <br /> facilities at 19 14th St. NE and such tests indicated an odor <br /> level of 145 odor units, which is below the limit of 150 odor <br /> units allowed by Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Regulation <br /> APC-9. <br /> NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That the Offensive Trades <br /> License of Gordon Rendering Company be granted under the <br /> following conditions: <br /> 1. All doors and windows shall be kept closed during <br /> periods of operation so that all rendering plant air <br /> will be processed through a scrubber or burned, except <br /> during periods of loading and unloading when loading <br /> doors may be open but these periods shall be kept to <br /> a minimum. <br /> 2. Gordon Rendering Company shall continue to perform <br /> all obligations required of it by its agreement with <br /> the City of New Brighton dated January 25, 1977. <br /> I <br />