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Published January 27, 2009 11:19 pm - CARTHAGE, Mo. — The Carthage City Council listened to protests Tuesday night from an attorney representing Renewable Environmental Solutions, then unanimously adopted an ordinance that could, in the future, impose new city odor regulations on the company.
Carthage council adopts odor-control measure
By Susan Redden
sredden@joplinglobe.com
CARTHAGE, Mo. — The Carthage City Council listened to protests Tuesday night from an attorney representing Renewable Environmental Solutions, then unanimously adopted an ordinance that could, in the future, impose new city odor regulations on the company.
Mayor Jim Woestman, in a phone interview after the council’s meeting, said there was an open discussion among council members and Stan Sexton, a Kansas City attorney who represents the biofuels company.
“We still want to get along, but they stink,” Woestman said.
The mayor said Sexton suggested that representatives of all the companies in the city’s industrial area “get together and study the whole situation.”
That has happened, to a degree, under efforts organized earlier by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources in response to Carthage’s odor problems.
Woestman said he has no objection to a cooperative effort, but that the city is not willing to back off on a new ordinance that would impose stricter odor standards than current state rules, and impose fines when industries are found guilty of violations.
The council has approved the purchase of an odor-measuring device, and the ordinance sets the dilution ratio for violations at 5-to-1. Companies now can be found in violation of state rules if they emit odors that are detectable at a dilution of 7-to-1. Woestman said the measure won’t go into effect immediately, because the equipment won’t arrive until next month, and city workers will have to be trained.
City officials believe the state standard of 7-to-1 is too lenient, and that a 4-to-1 dilution probably would be too strict.
“We can always amend it, and we explained that,” the mayor said.
Woestman said Sexton argued, inaccurately, that Carthage does not have the authority to impose the new rules because it is not a home-rule-charter city.
“We have the authority to do what the council passed,” said City Attorney Nate Dally.
“It’s better if everyone can be within the law, rather than citing people. I think most of us still are hopeful we can work together and create a good solution.”
Odors from the city’s industrial bottoms on Tuesday prompted three complaints to the DNR’s Springfield office, but the state did not have a worker available to measure the extent of the smells because of the icy roads, said Victoria Lovejoy, public information officer with the Springfield office.
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