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;1 II ~ ~ ~ 'RESOLUTION NO. 84-152 STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OR 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 Mengelkoch Company as a rendering business; and I I I i I I I I I I I I I I I I I WHEREAS, on January 31, 1984, a stack emission test, in I conformance with American Society for Testing Materials Method I (ASTH) 0-1397-57, was performed on the emission from the stack I of the Mengelkoch Company plant facilities at ll9-17th Street NE I and such test indicated an average odor level of 17.0 odor units i 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 381,400 odor units per minute which is within the limit of one . million odor units per minute allowed by APC-9; and WHEREAS, the City is aware and has been informed that certain deficiencies in the operation of the Menge1koch 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 i others, dumping of raw sewage on the open ground, and emission : of offensive odors in the neighborhood; and ;; WHEREAS, a second emission test was performed on June 26, 1984, which indicated an average odor level of 12.0 odor units per cubic foot and a total emission rate of 263,000 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 Mengelkoch 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 Mengelkoch 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 12,1978~ I 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, i Section 15-147 of the City Code, Article V, Section I 5-4A of the Rules and Regulations for the Metropolitan I Sewer Disposal System have been and are being violated : and that the right of the rendering plant to use the 1 City sewer system is thereby immediately suspended. i