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Incinerator - means any furnace or other device used in the process of burning
<br />solid waste, hazardous waste, medical waste or special waste for the purpose of reducing the
<br />volume of the waste by removing combustible material.
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<br /> Medical Waste - means all segregated, non-recycled wastes other than kitchen or
<br />office wastes produced by hospitals, clinics, doctors' and dentists' offices, funeral homes,
<br />veterinary clinics, and other medical and research facilities. These wastes include infectious
<br />wastes as defined by part 7035.0300, subpart 48 of Minnesota Rules, or other relevant rule or
<br />statute defining infectious wastes, pathological waste, and laboratory wastes.
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<br /> Solid Waste - means garbage, refuse, and other discarded solid materials, except
<br />animal waste used as fertilizer, including solid waste materials resulting from industrial,
<br />commercial, and agricultural operations, and from community activities. Solid waste does not
<br />include earthen fill, boulders, rock, and other materials normally handled in construction
<br />operations, solids or dissolved material in domestic sewage, or other significant pollutants in
<br />water resources, such as slit, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste water effluents,
<br />dissolved materials in irrigation return flows, or other common water pollutants.
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<br /> Special Waste - means any waste material not considered hazardous or solid
<br />waste which has been determined by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency or Environmental
<br />Protection Agency to require special handling or treatment prior to disposal.
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<br /> Subd. 3. Nothing contained herein shall prohibit the use of incinerator burning of
<br />solid waste as defined herein generated on the premises by incinerators lawfully permitted and
<br />presently in use within the City.
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<br />9.11.07 Nuisances: Noise, odors, vibration, smoke, glare, air pollution, or dangerous
<br />wastes shall be regulated by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency as applicable.
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<br /> Subd. 1. Odors. Table (Odor Thresholds in Chapter 5, "Air Pollution
<br />Manual", copyright 1951 by Manufacturing Chemists Association, Inc., Washington, DC).
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<br /> Subd. 2. Vibrations. Any vibration discernible (beyond property line) to
<br />the human sense of feeling for three (3) minutes of more duration in any one hour and any
<br />vibration producing an acceleration of more than 0.1 g. or resulting in any combination of
<br />amplitudes and fi'equencies beyond the "safe" range of Table 7, U.S. Bureau of Mines Bulletin
<br />No. 442, "Seismic Effects of Quarry Blasting", on any structure.
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<br /> Subd. 3. Smoke. Any emission of visible smoke ora shade darker than No.
<br />1 on the Ringelmann Smoke Chart, as published by the U.S. Bureau of Mines, except that
<br />visible gray smoke of a shade not darker than No. 2 on said chart may be emitted for not more
<br />than four (4) minutes in any thirty (30) minutes.
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<br /> Subd. 4. Air Pollution (Fly Ash, Dust, Fumes, Vapors, Gasses, etc.).
<br />Any emission which can cause any damage to health, animals, or vegetation, or other forms of
<br />property, or which can cause any excessive soiling at any point and in no event any emission of
<br />any solid or liquid particles in concentrations exceeding 0.3 grains per cubic foot of the
<br />conveying gas or air at any point. For measurement of the amount of particles in gasses resulting
<br />from combustion, standard corrections shall be applied to a stick temperature of 500 degrees
<br />Fahrenheit and 50% excess air.
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