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RESOLUTION NO. 1008
Series of 1986
TITLE: A RESOLUTION ENCOURAGING VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE WITH A
PROGRAM OF NOT OPERATING SOLID FUEL FIRED HEATING DEVICES
ON DAYS DESIGNATED AS "HIGH POLLUTION DAYS" BY THE
COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
WHEREAS, the Denver Metropolitan Air Quality Council has
recommended reducing emissions from woodburning units; and
WHEREAS, the City of Wheat Ridge supports the Better Air Campaign
and continues to support efforts to improve the air quality in
the Denver metropolitan area; and
WHEREAS, the City of Wheat Ridge is vitally concerned with the
physical health and welfare of its citizens;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:
1. All residents of the City of Wheat Ridge are urged to
comply voluntarily with the program above described by not
operating solid fuel fired heating devices, except for such
devices which constitute a person's sole source of heat, at any
time the State of Colorado's Department of Health declares a
"high pollution day."
2. As used herein, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
a. "Solid Fuel !"ired Heating Device" shall mean a device
designed for combustion of solid fuels, including but not
limited to wood, coal, and paper, so that usable heat is derived
from the interior of a building, and shall include solid fuel-
fired stoves, fireplaces, solid fuel fired cooking stoves, and
combustion fuel furnaces or boilers which burn sol id fuel.
Solid fuel fired heating devices do not include natural gas-
fired devices or solid fuel fired barbecue devices.
b. "High Pollution Day" shall mean that period of time
declared to be a high pollution day by the Colorado Department of
Health.
c. "Sole Source of Heat" shall mean one or more residential
solid fuel fired heatingng devices which constitute the only
source of heat in a private residence for purposes of space
heating. No residential solid fuel fired heating device or
devices shall be considered to be the sole source of heat if the
private residence is equipped with a permanently intalled furnace
or heating system designed to heat the residence, connected or
disconnected from its energy source, utilizing oil, natural gas
electricity, or propane.
3. In order to aid public awareness of the problems of
air pollution and of the benefits to be derived by all citizens
of the City of Wheat Ridge and of the Denver Metropolitan area by
complaince with the program above described, the City
Administrator, or his designee, is specifically encouraged and
empowered to make inspections during "high pollution days" and to
contact persons burning solid fuel fired heating devices at said
time for the purpose of informing them of the existence of the
"high pollution day" declaration from the Colorado Department of
Health, and to inform the resident operating said solid fuel
fired heating dev ice of the effects of sol id fuel burning upon
air pollution in the Denver metropolitan area.
DONE AND RESOLVED this ?7thday of October, 1986
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Frank Stites, Mayor
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