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" i I ~ ~ ~ RESOLUTION NO. 87-JJiL- STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF RAMSEY CITY OF NEW BRIGHTON '" RESOLUTION GRANTING THE MENGELKOCH COMPANY AN OFFENSIVE TRADES LICENSE AND AFFIXING CERTAIN CONDITIONS OF OPERATION. WHEREAS, the City of New Brighton is responsible for the general safety, health, welfare and well-being of its residents and has established codes to aid in carrying out this responsibility; and WHEREAS, City Code Chapter 24 entitled Sewer Department Regulations and Chapter 15, Article VII, entitled Offensive, Dangerous Trades, and Metropolitan Sewer Board Rules and Regulations for the Metropolitan Disposal System and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Regulations all apply to the operation of the Menge1koch Company as a rendering business; and WHEREAS, the City is aware and has been informed that certain deficiencies in the operation of the Mengelkoch Company have occurred in the past with respect to these codes, rules, regulations and standards; and WHEREAS, the deficiencies which previously existed in regard to disposal of sewage have, in the past, affected the safety, health, welfare and well- being of the City's residents in that such deficiencies cause plugging of the sanitary sewer and lift station, interference with sanitary sewer service to others, dumping of raw sewage on the open ground, and emission of offensive odors in the neighborhood; and WHEREAS, on February 3, 1987, a stack emission test, in conformance with American Society for Testing Materials Method (ASTH) D-1397-57, was performed on the emission from the stack of the Mengelkoch Company plant facilities at 119 - 14th Street NE and such test indicated an average odor level of 28.0 odor units per cubic foot, which is below the limit of 150 odor units allowed by APC-9. Further, that the test indicated a total emission rate of 591,300 odor units per minute which is within the limit of one million odor units per minute allowed by APC-9; and WHEREAS, a second emission test was performed on July 24, 1987, which indicated an average odor level of 30.0 odor units per cubic foot and a total emission rate of 541,100 odor units per minute. These figures are less than the limit of 150 odor units per minute allowed and less than one million odor units per minute by APC-9; and NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Offensive Trades License of the Menge1koch Company for the premises at 119 - 14th Street NE be granted under the following conditions: 1. All doors and windows shall be kept closed during periods of operation so that all rendering plant air will be processed through a scrubber, except during periods of loading and unloading when loading doors may be open but these periods shall be kept to a minimum. 2. The Menge1koch Company shall continue to perform all obligations required of it by its agreement with the City of New Brighton dated January 25, 1977, and as amended by a subsequent agreement dated December 23, 1978 3. That any plugging or impairment of the operation of the City sewer system with grease will be considered prime facia evidence that Section 24-8 of the City Code, Section 15-147 of the City Code, Article V, Section 5-4A of the Rules and Regulations for the Metropolitan Sewer Disposal System have been and are being violated and that the right of the rendering plant to use the City sewer system is thereby immediately suspended. The amount of grease discharged into the City sewer system shall be 100 mg. per liter or less. If the City sanitary sewer system or lift station wet well becomes plugged as a result of the operations at the rendering plants, the cost of cleaning shall be paid by the rendering plants making use of that part of the sewer system that has become plugged.