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<br />RESOLUTION NO 2397
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<br />STATE OF MINNESOTA
<br />COUNTY OF RAMSEY
<br />CITY OF NEW BRIGHTON
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<br />il RESOLUTION GRANTING GORDON RENDERING COMPANY AN OFFENSIVE TRADES
<br />I!!" LIe ENS E AND A F F I X I N G 'Cf R T A I N CON D IT ION S OF OP ERA T ION
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<br />WHEREAS, The City of New Brighton is responsible
<br />general safety, health, welfare and well-being of its
<br />and has established codes to ajd in carrying out ithis
<br />responsibility, and . , '
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<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 a 11 apply to the operat i on of Gordon
<br />Rendering Company as a rendering business, and
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<br />WHEREAS, The City is aware and has been informed that
<br />certain deficiencies 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
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<br />WHE~EAS, These deficiencies when they have occurred, have
<br />affected the safety, health, 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 sanitary
<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
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<br />WHEREAS, On April 18, 1980 stack emission tests, in
<br />complete conformance with American Society for Testing Materials
<br />Method D-1391-57, were performed on the emmissions from the
<br />stack ~f the scrubber serving the Gordon Rendering Company plant
<br />facili~ies at 19 - 14th Street NE and such tests indicated
<br />an odor level of 10 odor units per cubic foot and a total
<br />emission of 350,000 odor units per minute. These figures are
<br />less than the limit of 150 odor units allowed and less than one
<br />million odor units per minute allowed by APc-9, and
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<br />WHEREAS, A second emissions tests was performed on
<br />November 6, 1980, which indicated an average odor level of 5,
<br />odor units per cubic foot and a total emission of J80,OOO odor
<br />units per minOte.
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<br />NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That the Offensive Trades
<br />License of Gordon Rendering Company be granted under the
<br />following conditions:
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<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,
<br />except during periods of loading and unloading when
<br />loading doors may be open but these periods shall
<br />be kept to a minimum.
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<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 and
<br />as amended by an agreement dated December 12, 1978.
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