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COMPLAINT SHEET
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Personal (k Date:
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Complainant's Name: Mr and Mrs . Claude Buchanan
Complainant's Address: 949 Ryan Rd Northampton ma
Complaint received by:
VIOLATIONS OF:
❑ Chapter 44 Zoning Ordinances, City of Northampton
❑ Chapter 802 As Ammended Mass. State Building Code
❑ Sanitary Code, Art.2
Complaint reported against:
Name: -5�7 Tel.
Address:
Location of complaint, Map# Lot#
Signature of Complanants:, � `J
Nature of complaint:
Deposit of construction material and refuse and roots of trees and stumps
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310 talk: UENAWIMENT OF ENVIkONMENTAL QUALITY ENGINEERING
19.01 : cuntinued
(R) Open Dump. The consolidation of waste from one or more sources at
a common disposal site which is not designed or operated to guard against
environmental pollution, has inadequate or no management, and way have
associated with it such problems as vector breeding, fires.air pollution,,
water pollution, odors, unsightliness, wasted land, nuisances, disease
and accident pulentials.
(9) Opt, r� aator. Any person who has care, charge. or control of a sanitary
landfill facility subject to these regulations as agent or lessee of the
owner or as an independent contractor.
(10) Owner. Any person who alone or in conjunction with others owns
the rem operty upon which is located a sanitary landfill facility
subject to these regulations.
(11) Person. Any individual, partnership, association, firm, company,
corporation, department, agency, group, (including a city, town, county.
State, or other governmental unit) or any other entity responsible in any
way for an activity subject to these regulations.
(12) Refuse. Putrescible or nonputrescible solid waste materials, consist
ing of all combustible and noncombustible solid wastes including garbage
and rubbish, but not including sewage.
(13) Rubbish. Combustible or noncombustible solid waste material, except
garbage and sewage, including but not limited to such material as paper,
rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches,
yard trimmings, grass clippings. tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass,
crockery, dust, ashes, construction wastes, industrial wastes. commercial
wastes, demolition wastes, agricultural wastes. abandoned vehicles, street
��--� sweepings, bulky wastes, the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke
or other combustible materials, and any other unwanted or discarded mattel.
F (14) Sanitary Landfill. A method of disposing of solid wastes on land
in such a manner as will protect the public health safety, comfort and
erg: convenience and prevent a nuisance or a danger to the public health by
CL reason of odor, dust, fires, smoke, air pollution, water ollution
breeding or harboring of rodents, flies or vermin, or other cause. Such
operation shall utilise the principles of scientific and engineering plann
design and control to properly locate the landfill, to confine the refuse
C� to the smallest practical area, to compact and reduce it to the smallest
practical volume, and to cover it With a layer of material at the end of
each day's operation or at more frequent intervals as may be necessary.
(15) Solid Wastes. Any unwanted or discarded solid material. Solid
wastes are classed as refuse (See definition 310 CMR 19.01(12) for Refuse)
(16) S ecial Wastes. Materials such as sewage solids, radioactive wastes
Pathologic w;istes, explosive materials, chemicals, certain liquid wastes,
or other materials of hazardous nature or materials requiring special
handling or procedures for disposal.
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BOARD OF HEALTH CITY OF NORTHAMPTON
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JOHN T. JOYCE,Chairman MASSACHUSETTS • •
PETER C. KENNY, M.D. -----,
OFFICE OF THE 210 MAIN STREET
PETER J. McERLAIN, Health Agent BOARD OF HEALTH 01060
Michael R. Parsons (413)586-6950 Ezt.213
April 9, 1984
Edwin & Julia Matusko
Ryan Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Dear Mr. & Mrs. Matusko: Re: Dumping_- Lot 186, Map 35
An inspection, this date, of your property fronting on Ryan Road, Map 35,
Lot 186 revealed that a large volume of rubbish, tree stumps, brush, demoli-
tion wastes, and cement block manufacturing wastes has been dumped there and
used as fill material.
Please be advised that this dumping and burial of rubbish in an area not ap-
proved as a sanitary landfill is a violation of Section 150A of Chapter III
of the Massachusetts general laws and is also a public health nuisance.
Under authority of Chapter 111, Section 123 and 150A you are hereby ordered
to cease the dumping of rubbish immediately and to remove and properly dispose
of the dumped material within seven (7) days of the receipt of this notice.
Attached for your information is an excerpt of the Massachusetts Department
of Environmental Quality Engineering regulation for "the disposal of solid
waste by sanitary landfill", (Section 19.01 - 310 CHR 19:00) which defines
the term rubbish.
If you have any questions regarding this order, please contact the Board of
Health office.
Thank you, in advance, for your cooperation.
Very truly yours,
-P,t, 0 U W
Peter J. McErlain ' 1984 Health Agent
OF 81"ING WnCTIONS
cc: Building Inspector's Department kl pOR1NAMpMl(MA,01060
Conservation Commission
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