Salt Lake County approves wood-burning ban to start in 2016
[2023-09-22 15:16:34]
Salt Lake City - Thursday, the Salt Lake County Health Bureau has passed a new regulation prohibiting the burning of wood under bad weather conditions. The steps for improving Utah's air quality during the reversing season are getting different responses
Normally, the beautiful scenery from the Salt Lake Valley to the Oquirrh Mountains is good during reversal processing. Problematic contamination is what Salt Lake County Health Bureau and Mayor want to alleviate, and one step goes through health regulations prohibiting the burning of firewood.
Long Ben McAdams of Salt Lake City said, "I think it is discreet, this is absolutely not a ban, but red and yellow action alerts are only displayed at that time," he said.
This regulation prohibits outdoor fire such as wood, coal and pellet burning in a fireplace or a stove, campfire, terrace pit, charcoal grill etc. However, unless fire is the only heat source
"This will have a major impact on our air quality, and the behavior of some people is hurting thousands of people," McAdams said.
Carroll Johnson living in Salt Lake was contaminated on these bad air days and said she supported the ban
"We have a week at its reverse time, we can profit from it if we do not burn that week, I think that is good for all of us," she said.
"There must be no rules, regulations or anything that restricts your ability to feed something of this kind, either to cultivate ourselves or to heat ourselves," Aruba said.
Alva considers this prohibition to be an abusive force for county officials and stated that if we really want to solve the Utah state's air pollution problem we need to better regulate other industries It was.
"If they want to limit everything, they say 'This is too polluted' and they have the facts to support it, I'm more likely to support it."
Timber prohibition does not apply to households relying on wooden fireplaces or stoves as the only heat source or emergency, such as a blackout weather outage.
Health officials will focus on residents' education this year. Fines will be issued from January 2016. For repeated offenders, the penalty will be as high as $ 299 per day.
In Salt Lake City - Ogden Metropolitan Area there are Salt Lake City, Davis City, Weber County, with a population of 1,333,914 in 2000, an increase of 24.4% from 1,072,227 in 1990. Since the 2000 census, the Census bureau has added Summit and Toure County to Salt Lake City Capital Region but canceled Davis and Weber County and designated it as an independent Ogden - Clearfield metropolitan area. . As of July 1, 2008, Salt Lake City - Ogden - Clearfield Integrated Statistical District and Provo - the southern part of the Oreum Capital Region, population of 2,094,035 people
Normally, the beautiful scenery from the Salt Lake Valley to the Oquirrh Mountains is good during reversal processing. Problematic contamination is what Salt Lake County Health Bureau and Mayor want to alleviate, and one step goes through health regulations prohibiting the burning of firewood.
Salt Lake City (generally abbreviated as Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital of Utah and the most populous municipality. The population of the city is presumed to be 190,884 people in 2014, and it is the center of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area with a population of 1,153,340 people (estimated in 2014). Salt Lake City is in the larger city - Salt Lake City - Ogden - Provo co-operative statistical district. This region is a continuous urban and suburban development corridor ranging from Wasatch Front about 120 miles (190 km), with a population of 2,423,912 as of 2014. This is one of the two major urban areas of the Great Basin (the other one is Reno, Nevada).