1990 Resolutions - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

which parallels the site to reduce the residential noise impacts generated by the acceleration and deceleration of trucks. The buffers shall extend north from the end of the tipping building to the emergency access road shown on the site plan submitted by the applicant and shall extend south from the other end of the tipping area to approximately 200 feet past the southern-most scale. The details of these buffers must be approved by the Planning Department prior to approval of a plan of development (site plan). Muffling devices to control sound produced by safety relief valves shall be in place at all times when the plant is operating, including the testing and start-up phases. The plant management shall comply with any request by the City Manager to reduce sound volumes of the public address system in response to complaints from citizens. Vacuum systems for loading lime for the air pollution control system shall only be operated between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, unless approved by the City Manager or his designee on an emergency basis. (1) At the request of the City Manager, the operator of the facility shall provide an acceptable noise study which indicates the noise levels generated by the facility in full operation. (The study should be similar to the noise study prepared for Wheelabrator Technologies by Robert M. Earsey, P.E., entitled "Noise Study, Tidewater Trash to Energy Facility, Portsmouth, Virginia.") Noise levels generated by the facility at Victory Boulevard's intersections with Afton Parkway and Channing Avenue shall not exceed 5 decibels above baseline ambient noise levels between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. The baseline level shall be determined by using the logarithmic average Leq value over the period between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:90 a.m. (m) The operator of the facility shall process and burn in the facility only such trash, garbage, refuse or municipal solid waste, as is obtained from the Southeastern Public Service Authority (SPSA), or its successor, or as may be authorized to be processed or burned by the City Manager of the City of Portsmouth. The applicant or its assignee(s) or successor(s) shall participate with SPSA in developing procedures for screening hazardous materials, including but not limited to electric batteries, from the supply of materials to be processed at the facility. (n) The applicant, or its assiqnee(s) or successor(s) within one hundred and ~ighty (180) days of the adoption of this resolution, or within such additional time as the City Manager or his designee may grant, shall execute an agreement with Southeastern