The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-01-01

| or periods greater than shown in che
! table set forth shall be deemed a viO-
IatiOn OF this code.
For the purpose of classification the
following definitions shall apply:
Class i Plants These plants shall
] be considered as those in which the
generation of power is the maj item
during the years operation, and where
the genera ton of steam, for process
ing, such as acid works, dye works,
breweries, or like plants, or either
one or both, is the major item, or
where heating is consideration for
The months of the heating season only.
Class Plants: shall be considered
as plants used for heating only, eS-
pecially in cOngeted areas, and special
process furnaces, which include an
healing, blast, tempering, junk yards,
and other furnaces Of a ike nature,
also incineratOrs and furnaces of SIM
liar character.
Class Plants
Class ga, Plants shall be considered
as the stack of any locomotive
Class BIB Plants shall be considered
ais the stack of any steamboat or
steam tug.
| Class + Plants: shall be considered
rs a smoke stack, chimney, or other
part of any stationary boiler, steam
| roller, steam derrick. steam crane,
steam pile driver, steam shovel, tar
kettle or other similar machine or
continuance.
Color Scale:
| Any instrument or contrivance which
will show the denSitieS of smoke or
| ingredients thereof in accordance with
the umbraScOpe, or standard smoke
tester viii be accepted as a satisfactory
means of such determination under
| this Ordinance
Scale Classification:
| Grade of Smoke L 3
| Glass /. No violation. 10 min. per
hr 3 2min. periods per hr., violation.
Class >. No violation. 10 min. per
hr., violation, violation.
Glass "a. No violation. 3 min. per
| hr l min. i'll $ min. violation.
Class BIB. No violation, + min. in l
mr.. violation.
Class +. No violation. 10 min. per
mr.. violation, violation.
Fly Ash, etc:
The emission of cinders, fly ash or
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plant Of surrounding property own
erS. or others. if justified, shall be de-
| clared nuisance and shall, at the
| direction Of the SAC. he abated: ex-
cept that plants which are located
| 1000 feet or more from other property
owners shall be judged TO be a nui-
sance only if tests show discharge
Of 400 grains Of 80 MicrOn, or larger.
flv ash per 1000 cubic feet of flue
gases On all furnaces built after
the enactment Of this Ordinance there
| shall be installed such means as are
| in practical use in the industry, in
similar applications, to reduce TO rea
| SOnable limits the emission of dust.
| cinderS. fly ash or other solid par
| ticles.
| Collectors:
The design Of collector shall be cap
able of removing so per cent of solid
matter in combustion gas Of stack
emission that will remain on a 800
| mesh screen.
Definitions:
| Section l
(a) by atmospheric pollution is
| meant the discharging from stacks or
| chimneys. or other ducts or cOnduits.
any gasSeS or solids that cause atmo-
| spheric contamination, such as smoke
and-Or the ingredients thereof in
| amounts detrimental TO the public
health and welfare.
Stack Of Chimney
abb any conduit or duct thru
| which the smoke. gas or products or
combustion pass on their way to the
atmosphere.
Breeching
(cD any conduit located between
the last pass of the boiler and the
| smoke stack that conducts the gas.
smoke or products of combustion to
the atmosphere or to any intermediate
device before being discharged 10 the
atmosphere.
I Stekef
Id any mechanical or hand Oper-
ated device that is used for the burn
| ing of fuel and provides for the con-
| trolled burning Of same, and the con-
trolled supply OF air for combustion
Battling:
(e) any row or rows. plane or
planes Of refractory, or other mater
| ial. that causes the gases in a steam
boiler or other vessel, to assume
definite and predetermined path OF
| travel before reaching the smokestack.
Bridge Wall:
81 any wall at the rear OF the
crate or StOker that acts as defect
| or and radiant heat reflector for the
| furnace gaSses. and as a stop for the
| fuel bed or rear wall Of the ash pit.
Dampef:
(g) any device placed In the
| breeding of boiler before the stack
| is reached, or in smOkestack, TO
| regulate the draft pressure or escape
| OF furnace gases.
| Smoke Indicator:
| (h) any electric. mechanical or
| other device. sky-light, window or re-
| fleeing CONVEX mirror or series o1
| mirrors. or breeching indicator that
| will allow the person firing the boil
or. or other fuel-burning vessel. TO
see. from the boiler room, the density
and color OF the smoke being emitted
from the top OF the chimney or stack
| or other conduit.
| Smoke Abatement Devices:
| ~ any apparatus (steam or mo.
| tor drivenJ air-carrying pipe, or set OF
such pipes. attached TO a steam boil
er. 81 arranged a. to provide auxiliary
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