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;.: '1 RESOLUTION NO. 84-153 STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF RAMSEY CITY OF NEW BRIGHTON ,,' ...~ ~ 'II RESOLUTION GRANTING THE GORDON RENDERING 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 Gordon Rendering Company as a renderingbusinessl; and WHEREAS, the City is aware and has been informed that certain , deficiencies in the operation of the Gordon Rendering Company's old plant have occurred in the past with respect to these codes, rules, regulations and standards and could dccur with the new plant; and WHEREAS, these deficiencies when they have occurred, have affected the safety, health, welfare and well-being of the City's residents in that they have caused plugging of the sanitary sewer i and lift stations, interference with sanitary sewer service to others, dumping of raw sewage on the open ground and/or often resulted in offensive odors in the neighborhood; and WHEREAS, on April 24, 1984 a stack emission test, in con- I formance with American Society for Testing Materials Method (ASTH)! i; 0 - 1 39 7 - 5 7, was perf 0 r m e don t he em i s s ion from the s t a c k 0 f the i " s c rub b e r s e r v i n g the Go r don Rend e r i n g Com pan y p 1 ant fa c i 1 i tie sat 19-14th Street NE and such test indicated an average odor level of 8.9 odor units per cubic foot and a total emission rate of ,289,500 odor units per minute. These figures are less than the limit of 150 odor units allowed and less than one million odor units per minute allowed by APC-9; and WHEREAS, a second emission test was performed on October 15, 1984, which indicated an average odor level of 18.0 odor units per cubic foot and a total emission rate of 560,000 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 allowed by APC-9; and NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Offensive Trades License of the Gordon Rendering Company 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 Gordon Rendering 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 an agreement dated December 12, 1978. 3. That any plugging or impairment of the operation of the City sewer system with grease will be considered prima 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 , I' i