It is hereby declared that air pollution is a menace to the health,
welfare and comfort of the residents of the Township of Delanco and a cause
of substantial damage to property. For the purpose of preventing and reducing
atmospheric pollution, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Township
of Delanco to minimize air pollution as herein defined and to establish standards
governing the installation, maintenance and operation of equipment and appurtenances
relating to combustion, which is a source or potential source of air pollution.
The following terms, wherever used herein or referred to in this chapter,
shall have the respective meanings assigned to them, unless a different meaning
clearly appears from the context:
AIR CONTAMINANT
Solid particles, liquid particles, vapors or gases which are discharged
into the outdoor atmosphere.
AIR POLLUTION
The presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air contaminants
in such quantities and duration as are, or tend to be, injurious to human
health or welfare, animal or plant life or property, or would unreasonably
interfere with the enjoyment of life or property.
DIRECT HEAT EXCHANGER
Equipment in which heat from the combustion of fuel is transferred
to a substance being heated so that the latter is contacted by the products
of combustion and may contribute to the total effluent.
ECONOMIC POISONS
Those chemicals used as insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides,
nematodes or defoliants.
FUEL
Solid, liquid or gaseous materials used to produce useful heat by
burning.
GARBAGE
Animal or vegetable waste matter from houses, kitchens, restaurants,
hotels, produce markets or any other source, or food of any kind to be thrown
away.
INCINERATOR
Any device, apparatus, equipment or structure used for destroying,
reducing or salvaging by fire any material or substance, including but not
limited to refuse, rubbish, garbage, trade waste, debris or scrap; or a facility
for cremating human or animal remains.
INDIRECT HEAT EXCHANGER
Equipment in which heat from the combustion of fuel is transferred
by conduction through a heat-conducting material to a substance being heated,
so that the latter is not contacted by and adds nothing to the products of
combustion.
INTERNAL CROSS-SECTIONAL DIMENSION
Any maximum linear perpendicular distance from an inside wall of
a stack or chimney to the inside of an opposite wall, such as the diameter
of a circular cross section or the length or width of a rectangular cross
section.
LIQUID PARTICLES
Particles which have volume but are not of rigid shape and which,
upon collection, tend to coalesce and create uniform homogeneous films upon
the surface of the collecting media.
MANUFACTURING PROCESS
Any action, operation or treatment embracing chemical, industrial,
manufacturing or processing factors, methods or forms, including but not limited
to furnaces, kettles, ovens, converters, cupolas, kilns, crucibles, stills,
dryers, roasters, crushers, grinders, mixers, reactors, regenerators, separators,
filters, reboilers, columns, classifiers, screens, quenchers, cookers, digesters,
towers, washers, scrubbers, mills, condensers or absorbers.
MOTOR VEHICLE
Includes all vehicles propelled otherwise than by muscular power,
except such vehicles as run only upon rails or tracks.
ODOR
The property of a substance which affects the sense of smell.
OPACITY
The property of a substance which renders it partially or wholly
obstructive to the transmission of visible light expressed as the percentage
to which the light is obstructed.
OPEN BURNING
Any fire wherein the products of combustion are emitted into the
open air and are not directed thereto through a stack or chimney of an incinerator.
OPERATOR
Any person who has care, custody or control of a building or premises,
or a portion thereof, whether with or without knowledge of the owner thereof.
OWNER
Any person who alone, jointly or severally with others shall have
legal or equitable title to any premises, with or without accompanying actual
possession thereof; or shall have charge, care or control of any dwelling
or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of the owner, or as fiduciary, including
but not limited to executrix, administrator, administratrix, trustee, receiver
or guardian of the estate; or as a mortgagee in possession, regardless of
how such possession was obtained. Any person who is a lessee subletting or
reassigning any part or all of any dwelling or dwelling unit shall be deemed
to be a co-owner with the lessor and shall have joint responsibility over
the portion of the premises sublet or assigned by said lessee.
PARTICLES
Any material, except uncombined water, which exists in finely divided
form as liquid particles or solid particles at standard conditions.
PERSON
Includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms,
partnerships and joint-stock companies, as well as individuals, and shall
also include all political subdivisions of this state or any agencies or instrumentalities
thereof.
PLANT LIFE
Vegetation, including but not limited to trees, tree branches, leaves,
yard trimmings, shrubbery, grass, weeds and crops.
REFUSE
Rubbish, garbage, trade waste and plant life.
RINGELMANN SMOKE CHART
Ringelmann's Scale for Grading the Density of Smoke, as published
by the United States Bureau of Mines; or any chart, recorder, indicator or
device which is approved by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
as the equivalent of said Ringelmann's Scale for the measurement of smoke
density.
RUBBISH
Waste solids not considered to be highly flammable or explosive,
including but not limited to rags, old clothes, leather, rubber, carpets,
wood, excelsior, papers, ashes, furniture, tin cans, glass, crockery, masonry
and other similar materials.
SALVAGE OPERATION
Any operation or activity from which is salvaged or reclaimed any
product or material, including but not limited to metals, chemicals or shipping
containers.
SMOKE
Small gasborne or airborne particles, exclusive of water vapor, arising
from a process of combustion in sufficient number to be observable.
SOURCE OPERATION
Any manufacturing process or any identifiable part thereof emitting
an air contaminant into the outdoor atmosphere through one or more stacks
or chimneys.
STACK or CHIMNEY
A flue, conduit or opening designed and constructed for the purpose
of emitting air contaminant into the outdoor air.
STANDARD CONDITIONS
Seventy degrees Fahrenheit and one atmosphere pressure (14.7 pounds
per square in absolute or 760 minimum mercury).
TRADE WASTE
All waste solid or liquid material or rubbish resulting from construction,
building operations or the prosecution of any business trade or industry,
including but not limited to plastic products, cartons, paint, grease, oil
and other petroleum products, chemicals, cinders and other forms of solid
or liquid waste material.
VISIBLE SMOKE
Smoke which obscures light to a degree readily discernible by visual
observation.
No person or owner of property, or person or persons having possession
or control thereof, shall cause, suffer, allow or permit to be emitted into
the open air substances in such quantities as shall result in air pollution.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to the use of economic poisons.