Anderson 

Chapter 6.08

AIR POLLUTION

Sections:

            6.08.010   Emission of dense smoke.

6.08.020    Escape of soot, cinders, noxious acids, fumes and gas.

6.08.010   Emission of dense smoke. 

A.  It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to permit the emission of any smoke from any source whatever of a density equal to or greater than that density describes as No. 2 of the Ringlemann Chart.  The emission of any such dense smoke is a public nuisance and may be summarily abated by the abatement official.  This section does not apply to:

            1.  The circumstance when a fire-box, furnace, boiler, locomotive or other fuel-consuming devise is being cleaned out and a new fire is being built therein, in which event the smoke of a density greater than that described on the Ringlemann Chart shall be permitted for a period of not to exceed six minutes in any single period of sixty minutes; or

            2.  Smoke from fires set by or permitted by an official if such fire is set or permission given in the performance of the official duties of such officer, and such fire in the opinion of the officer is necessary:

                        a.  For the purpose of the prevention of a fire hazard which cannot be abated by other means, or

                        b.  The instruction of public employees in the methods of fighting fire.

B.  Ringlemann Chart.

            1.  The Ringlemann Chart is a chart which is described in the U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 6888, and in which are illustrated graduated shades of gray for use in estimating the light-obscuring smoke density.

            2.  The Ringlemann number is the number appearing on the Ringlemann Chart ascribed by the observer to the density of smoke emission.

            3.  The use of the chart will be made by placing it at such a distance from the observer so that the squares appear as even shades of coloring or when no white spaces between the lines are visible.  Measurements shall be taken at the point of greatest density, which will usually be at the point of emission.  Comparison of the smoke and observation with the various shades of the chart will then indicate not less than one hundred feet nor more than one quarter mile from the smoke observed.

            4.  Where the density or opacity of the smoke as observed falls between two consecutive Ringlemann numbers, the lower Ringlemann number shall be considered the density of the smoke observed.  (Prior code AO §11.12.050)

6.08.26            Escape of soot, cinders, noxious acids, fumes and gas.  A. It is unlawful for any person to permit or cause the escape of such quantities of soot, cinders, noxious acids, fumes and gases in any place, or manner, as to:

1.       Be detrimental to any person or the public:

2.       Endanger the health, comfort or safety of any person or of the public;

3.       Cause or have the tendency to cause injury or damage to property or business.

B.                  The escape of such matter is a public nuisance and may be summarily abated by the abatement official.  (Prior code AO §11.12.060)