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<br />~ <br /> <br />,,!. <br /> <br />". <br /> <br />,. <br /> <br />, <br />\, <br /> <br />t <br />I~ <br /> <br />~ ~ <br />'; <br /> <br />I! <br />H <br />; ~ <br />it <br />H <br />~ ! <br /> <br />RESOLUTION NO 2529 <br /> <br />,i <br /> <br />STATE OF MINNESOTA <br />COUNTY OF RAMSEY <br />CITY OF NEW BRIGHTON <br /> <br />RESOLUTION GRANTING GORDON RENDERING COMPANY AN OFFENSIVE <br />TRADES LICENSE AND AFFIXING CERTAIN CONDITIONS OF OPERATION <br /> <br />~ : <br /> <br />'i <br />'f <br />I, <br />~ ~ <br />I; <br />II <br />!i <br />;; <br />II <br />l" <br />ii <br />" <br />~J <br />:1 <br />;f <br />!; <br />i~ <br />"~I <br /> <br />Ii <br /> <br />l: <br />:\ ~ <br />l' <br />~ ': <br />1: <br />~ i <br />i! <br /> <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 <br />responsibility, and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, City Code Chapter 24 entitled Sewer Department <br />Regulations and Chapter 15, Article VII, entitled Offensive <br />Trades, and Metropolitan Sewer Board Rules and Regulations <br />for the Metropolitan Disposal System and the Minnesota Pollution <br />Control Agency Standards all apply to the operation of Gordon <br />Rendering Company as a rendering business, and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, The City is aware and has been informed that <br />certain d~ficiencies in the operation of Gordon Company's old <br />plant have occurred in the past with respect to these codes, <br />rules, regulations and standards and could occur with the new <br />plant~ and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, These deficiencies when they have occurred, have <br />affected the safety, ~ealth, welfare and well-being of the <br />City's residents in that they have,caused plugging of the <br />sanitary sewer and lift stations, interference with ~anitary <br />sewer service to others, dumping of raw sewage on the open <br />ground and/or have'often resulted in offensive odors in the <br />neighborhood, and I <br /> <br />WHEREAS, On May 6, 1981 a stack emission test, incomplete <br />conformance with American Society for Testing Materials Method <br />0-1391-57, was performed on the emmission from the stack of the <br />scrubber serving the Gordon Rendering Company plant facilities <br />at 19 - 14th Street NE and such test indicated an odor level <br />of 3 odor units per cubic foot and a total emission of T20,000 <br />odor units per minute.' These figures are l~ss than the limit <br />of 150 odor units allowed and less than one million odor units <br />per minute allowed by APC-9, and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, A second emission test was performed on October 23, <br />1981, which indicated an average odor level of 9 odor units <br />per cubic foot and a total emission of 380,000 odor units per <br />minute. <br /> <br />~ ; <br />" <br />.: <br />1: <br />~ ~ <br />Il <br />ii <br />l: <br />H <br />" <br />L <br />j: <br />I; <br />j;, <br />11 <br />I: <br />,I <br />" <br />;( <br />~ i <br />I: <br />I- <br />i, <br />il <br />;1 <br />I, <br />p <br />" <br />;'1 <br />i ~ <br />f ~ <br />11 <br />I( <br />" <br />i; <br /> <br />i; <br />Ii <br />!') <br />,I <br />'l <br />!l <br />It <br />!l <br />II <br />!; <br />" <br />Ii <br />I: <br />-j <br />!! <br /> <br />NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That the Offensive Trades <br />License of Gordon Rendering Company be granted under the <br />following conditions: <br /> <br />1. All doors and windows shall be kept closed during periods <br />of operation so that all rendering plant air will be <br />processed through a scrubb~r or burned, except during <br />periods of loading and unloading when loading doors may <br />be open but these periods shall be kept to a minimum. <br />2. Gordon Rendering Company shall continue to perform all <br />obligations required of itby its agreement wihh the <br />City of New Brighton dated January 25, 1977 and as <br />amended by an agreement dated December 12, 1978. <br /> <br />,', <br />(\ <br />Ii <br />I! <br />F <br />i~ <br /> <br />" <br />>( <br />,', <br /> <br />E <br />n <br />: ~ <br />t" <br /> <br />ii <br />~ ; <br /> <br />j; <br />p <br />(1 <br /> <br />~ .' <br />i; <br /> <br />!I <br />, ~ <br />H <br />: ~ <br />ii <br />I <br /> <br />n <br />') <br />