A typical OWB. PROBLEMS WITH OWBs Health risks Public Nuisance Property Values Environmental...

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