SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL
ORDINANCE
May, 1988
I .AUTHORITY
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II PURPOSE
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III DEFINITIONS.................................................1
IV. GENERAL PROVISIONS/PROHIBITIONS.............................4
V. MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY............................... ..5
VI. PENALTY
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VII. SEVERABILITY...............................................6
VIII. EFFECTIVE DATE............................................ 6
This Ordinance has been prepared and adopted pursuant to the provisions of Title 30
Sections 1917, 2151 and Title 38 Section 1721.
SECTION II.
PURPOSE
The purpose of this Ordinance is to protect public
health and safety by providing rules and regulations for the proper
operation of the Town landfill and Transfer Station Facility, herein after
called the Solid Waste Disposal Facility, and to provide that all wastes
generated in the Town are disposed of at the Solid Waste Disposal Facility.
Administrator: Administrator is the municipal officer
who has final responsibility for administration of the Solid Waste
Disposal Facility.
Ashes: shall mean residue from the
combustion of solid fuels.
Carrion: Carrion shall mean animals,
birds, and other living creatures that have died naturally or have been
accidentally killed. Animals or parts of animals from slaughter houses are
not included in this category.
Demolition Debris: See Inert.
Material.
Department: Department shall mean the
Public Works Department.
Equipment, Backup: Backup equipment
means equipment available to the site supervisor within a
certain period of breakdown of the primary Solid Waste Facility equipment.
Equipment, Solid Waste: Solid waste
equipment means any equipment including buildings on-site used for solid
waste storage, compaction, transfer, covering, grading, and other
operational activities. .
Garbage: Garbage means all
putrescible animals or vegetable. wastes resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and consumption of food in any private dwelling house,
multiple dwelling, hotel, restaurant, building,. or institution.
Hazardous Waste: Hazardous Waste means a substance designated as hazardous by the Department of
Environmental Protection such as poison, corrosive agents, etc.
Hot load:
Any
loads of solid waste
that are on fire, smoldering, or are potentially flammable by spontaneous combustion. Hot loads include wood ashes, cigarette tray residue, coal
ash
and clinkers, residue from a
fire, etc.
Household Wastes:
Household
wastes shall mean mixed refuse, ashes and bulk refuse originating in and
around private dwellings, multiple dwellings, fraternity houses, living quarters
or
dining facilities located in
schools, colleges, or universities.
Inert Material:
Inert
material means solid waste that does not react with other
substances under ordinary conditions, including but not limited to concrete,
rocks, bricks, plaster, contaminated fill, building construction wastes, etc.
Junk:
Junk
means old, worn-out, or unserviceable plumbing or heating supplies,
household appliances and furniture, scrap,
scrap copper, brass, rope,
rags, batteries, rubber debris, waste and all scrap iron, steel and other scrap
ferrous or nonferrous material or parts thereof.
Landfill, Sanitary: Sanitary
landfill means a disposal facility
for solid waste on land designed to protect the
environment.
Landscape
Refuse:
landscape
refuse means leaves, garden stubble, lawn rakings, weeds and other
material that can be composted and refused as a soil conditioner.
Refuse:
Refuse
shall mean mixed garbage and rubbish placed and stored together in a standard
refuse container.
Resource Recovery:
Resource
recovery means the recovery of materials or substances that still have useful
physical or chemical properties after serving a specific purpose and can be
reused or recycled for the same or other purposes.
Rubbish: Rubbish means all cardboard, plastic, metal, or glass
food containers, waste paper, rags, sweepings, small pieces of wood, excelsior,
rubber, leather, and similar waste materials that ordinarily accumulate around a
home, business or industry. It shall not include garbage, ashes, bulk refuse,
dead animals, hazardous waste, industrial waste, or building waste resulting from
the operations of a Contractor.
Salvaging: Salvaging
is the controlled removal of reusable discarded-solid waste.
Septage: Septage means waste, refuse, effluent, sludge and any
other materials from septic tanks, cesspools, or any other similar facility.
Solid Waste
Disposal Facility:
Means all facilities owned by the Town used to
transport or dispose of solid waste, to include the sanitary
landfill, solid waste equipment, etc.
Solid Waste
Management: Solid waste
management means purposeful, systematic, and unified control
of the collection, storage, transportation, processing, salvaging, and
disposal of solid waste.
Solid Waste: Solid waste means unwanted or
discarded solid material with insufficient liquid content to be free
flowing, including by way of example, and not by limitation, rubbish, garbage, junk, refuse, inert household wastes
material, landscape refuse, wood wastes, white goods, but shall not include
sludge, septage, hazardous wastes, agricultural or industrial wood
byproducts.
Special Wastes:
Special wastes include that
fraction of solid wastes and other wastes designated by the Town to be
handled, stored or disposed separately. Special wastes include but are not
limited to white goods, tires, inert material, hot loads, wood wastes,
carrion, asbestos, oil, fuels, paints, ash, recyclable materials, etc.
Storage: Storage means the containment of
any waste that is not hazardous, for a period of less than one year, in such
a manner as not to constitute disposal.
Sludge: Sludge mean the concentration of
solids resulting from the treatment
of liquid wastes such as sewage, industrial wastes, commercial wastes, etc.
Tires: Tires shall include all tires, tubes,
and rubber protective flaps. Tire rims are not included under this
definition.
Transfer Station Facility: Transfer station facility
means a constructed and managed to store, dispose and/or process solid
wastes in containers for transport to a facility.
Transfer Station Supervisor:
Transfer Station
Supervisor has. the responsibility
to properly operate and
maintain transfer station facility. His direct supervisor is the Public Works Road Foreman and he works under that department.
Transport: Transport means movement of solid waste from the point of
generation to any intermediate points, and finally to the point of
ultimate storage or disposal.
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Unacceptable wastes: This category shall include, but not be
limited to, the following items: |
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Leather over 4" or 5" long Rugs
Plastic sawdust
Metals
Metal strapping
Furniture |
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Long pieces of rope Tires with wheels Batteries
Wire
Nylon in spools
Mattresses |
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Vector: Vector means a carrier, usually an insect, bird,
or rodent, that is capable of transmitting a pathogen from one
organism to another or from one place to another. |
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White Goods: White goods means large appliances including,
but not limited to, stoves, refrigerators, freezers, washing
machines, clothes dryers, dishwashers and air conditioners. |
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Wood Wastes: Wood waste means dry waste made of wood to
include trees, stumps, brush, slabs, edgings and pallets. |
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
AND PROHIBITIONS |
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1. All waste generated or produced within
the legal borders of the Town of Vassalboro shall be delivered to the Solid
Waste Disposal Facility, except as shown below, or as otherwise provided for by State Law. |
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2. All residents, private or commercial haulers, or other legally
authorized individuals delivering waste to the
Solid Waste Disposal Facility shall be required to separate and
dispose of all wastes as follows: |
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Transfer Station
Household Wastes
Garbage
Refuse
Landscape Refuse or Litter
White Goods Area
Junk
White Goods
Wood waste Disposal Area
Trees, brush and other wood
wastes
Stumps or large tree trunks Inert Material
or
Demolition
Debris
Hot Loads Area
Hot Loads
Not Accepted
Hazardous Wastes
Carrion
Septage
Sludge
To Be Determined by the Transfer Station
Supervisor
Unacceptable Wastes |
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3. In regards to
unacceptable wastes, it shall be the responsibility of the resident, with
assistance from the Transfer Station Attendant, to assure that such items
are not disposed of in the Transfer Station Facility.
4. As provided for by
State Law, the Town may not accept any wastes from commercial operations
depending on, but 'not necessarily limited to, quality and quantity.
5. All solid waste
transported within the Town must be
placed in covered containers
securely fastened to the vehicle to prevent spillage and litter. Each
resident and business shall be responsible for the transportation of solid
waste from his property to the Solid Waste Facility.
6. Solid waste facilities
owned, operated and maintained by the Town, shall be for disposal of solid
wastes produced
within the boundaries of
the Town. All users of the solid waste facilities must
obtain a decal from
the Administrator or his designated representative. This decal must be in
the possession of all
users when depositing solid waste. Persons, firms or corporations without
a decal will be
denied use of the Solid
Waste Facility.
SECTION V.
MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY
The Town, through the
Board of Selectmen, assume overall responsibility for Town-owned Solid Waste
Disposal Facility and for the proper disposal of wastes accepted there.
The Administrator of this
Ordinance and overall Supervisor
of the Solid Waste Disposal
Facility is the Town Manager.
The Public Works
Department is responsible for the day-to-day operation, and maintenance of
the Solid Waste Disposal Facility.
It shall be the duty of
the Public Works Department's Transfer Station Attendant to strictly enforce
this Ordinance and to see that any and all violations are promptly abated
and violators prosecuted, and
it shall .be the special
duty of the Chief of Police and all Policemen to promptly summons any
violators of this Ordinance.
Other responsibilities and
duties shall be as outlined in the Solid Waste Disposal Facility Operational
and Maintenance Manual or as designated by the Administrator.
Solid Waste shall
be disposed at the Solid
Waste Disposal Facility only during the times designated by the Board of
Selectmen.
The Solid Waste Disposal
Facility shall be
operated in accordance with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection
(DEP) regulations, the operation and maintenance manuals or as designated
by both the Administrator and the Department.
All solid waste delivered and deposited for
disposal at the Town Solid Waste Disposal Facility shall become the
property of the Town. No person shall separate, collect, carry off or
dispose of such materials unless authorized in writing by the
Administrator.
SECTION VI. PENALTY
Any person or persons, firm or corporation
who violates any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less that
fifty dollars ($50)
nor more than five hundred dollars
($500) for each offense and each day's continuance or
failure to comply herewith shall constitute a separate and distinct
offense for each of said days and shall be punished as such. It shall be
the duty of the Police Chief to enforce the provisions of this Ordinance
and any other applicable State law.
SECTION VII. SEVERABILITY
Should any, section, paragraph, sentence,
clause or phrase of this Ordinance be declared unconstitutional or
invalid for any reason, the remainder of said Ordinance shall not be
affected thereby.
SECTION VIII. EFFECTIVE DATE
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in
force from the date of adoption, June 4, 1988.
Given unto our hands
this 25th day of May, 1988.
Philip W. Haines
Brett E. Hoskins
Dudley E. Foley
Selectmen of Vassalboro
Unacceptable wastes: This category shall include, but 'not be
limited to, the following items: