A typical OWB
Mar 31, 2015
A typical OWB
PROBLEMS WITH OWBs
• Health risks
• Public Nuisance
• Property Values
• Environmental Degradation
Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management
NESCAUM• Connecticut Bureau of Air Management• Maine Bureau of Air Quality Control• Mass Bureau of Waste Prevention• New Hampshire Air Resources Division• New Jersey Division of Air Quality• New York Division of Air Resources• Rhode Island Office of Air Resources• Vermont Air Pollution Control Division
“THERE IS NO SAFE LEVEL OF EXPOSURE”
American Lung Association of Maine
Nuisance/Quality of Life
• Constant smoke smell and soot
DECREASE IN PROPERTY VALUE
New York Times
Dec. 12, 2006
“Wood Boilers Cut Heating Bills. The Rub? Secondhand Smoke.”
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
NESCAUM estimate of nationwide sales
Year 2000 = 6865 units
Year 2005 = 67546 units
Hudson Road Boiler
SUDBURY BYLAWS ARTICLE V (C)
SMOKING PROHIBITION• It is hereby declared that smoking in public
places is a public nuisance, dangerous and hazardous to the public health, and violative of the right of non-smokers to breathe air which is free of smoke contamination.
NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION BUREAU.
• 2 HEAVY DUTY DIESEL TRUCKS
• 12 EPA CERTIFIED INDOOR WOOD STOVES
• 1,000 HOMES WITH OIL HEAT
• 1,800 HOMES WITH GAS HEAT