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RESPONSE SUMMARY ORIGINAL DRAFT ORDER OF APPROVAL NO. 10052 Comment Period – April 29 - June 15, 2010 Your attention to this letter and those like it are greatly appreciated. We are standing up for our rights as tax paying landowners. Please take note and stop the permitting process unless appropriate conditions are met, and if those conditions are not met, shut them down. Michael A. Jaeger (Written, June 3) Joy D. Garner and Family (Written, June 7) Joseph and Nancy Bostjancic (Written, June 3) I am writing to address concerns regarding air pollution caused by the above mentioned facility. My nan1e is Michael Jaeger and I reside just off of Cedar Grove Road at 24201 SE 1 64th Street, Issaquah Washington. My family and I have lived at that address since October 2000. Although there is a mechanism for reporting the odor caused by this facility, the reporting process appears to have had little impact on the frequency and severity of the pollution. Over the last 10 years, the odor violations have continued on a regular basis. I understand Cedar Grove Compositing is applying for a new permit to operate and this is to request the permit be denied or severely restricted. Frankly, I'm tired of my family being exposed to this pollution and not being able to walk out of our home, or open a window, without smelling the foul stench created by this facility. It is unclear who is responsible for these violations, but it's obvious the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) has failed to establish strict enough engineering standards or enforce whatever standards, if any, are currently in place. PSCAA is responsible for protecting the air quality and the folks that live in this area would appreciate it if the agency would vigorously pursue that mandate. We approve of recycling and composting and anything done for the good of our environment, but I am writing this letter to you to let you know about the offensive odors coming out of Cedar Grove Composting in Maple Valley, WA. We live at 4 Creeks which is just off SE May Valley Rd and Issaquah-Hobart Road. Many days for years now we have had to endure the odors, just when the weather turns nice & you want to spend time outdoors… out comes the stink a& ruins the day. It’s especially embarrassing when we have guests, not to mention the potential health problems that could occur fro breathing this foul air. We enjoy living in Issaquah and we were here long before Cedar Grove Composting moved in and we would be so thankful to have this problem resolved. In addition to my verbal comments made at Maple Hills Elementary School on June 3, 2010, please know that I am against Cedar Grove Compost processing food waste on its Maple Valley site as the odor situation has not improved. Please read and re-instate my attached letters of Sept. 21, 1997 to PSCA and Feb. 25, 1998 (CC to PSCA) that are still applicable. The air quality in the Issaquah Hobart Valley has improved little since these letters were delivered to PSCA. LRI of Puyallup operates an enclosed odor free facility. Harvest Power of Page 10 of 27
RESPONSE SUMMARY ORIGINAL DRAFT ORDER OF APPROVAL NO. 10052 Comment Period – April 29 - June 15, 2010 Richmond, B.C. uses in-vessel composting to capture odors and gas to produce electrical energy with guarantees of "no odors." Other industries that have emissions to the atmosphere must comply with the Clean Air RCW and laws of the national EP A. Why is Cedar Grove allowed to continue with unlawful activity that is 17 times more detrimental to destruction of the ozone layer than carbon dioxide? Food waste generators can purchase Hot Rot "In Vessel" compo sting equipment, install the equipment on their site and sell product locally. Thus, reducing transfer costs and carbon emissions as it can be processed and utilized locally. Again, Cedar Grove Compost is not capable of policing itself. Therefore, Cedar Grove needs to comply or cease operations until a facility can be established that is truly sustainable and does not impact the use of neighboring properties for approved non-offensive intended uses. Helen Scott (Written, May 27) Kara Mulqueeney (Written, June 1) We were part of the Class Action Lawsuit Settlement in 1999 with Cedar Grove Compost. The odor problem etc. has gotten better since that time, but we still smell Cedar Grove at our home several times a week. I have called Sandra Hector, Cedar Grove Composting's Odor Control Specialist. She has come out to our house. There was one time she blamed the odor on Cedar Hills Landfill, saying it was a garbage smell. When Cedar Grove is now accepting food waste, how can they decide whose garbage smell belongs to which place? Drive along Cedar Grove Rd. and you can certainly tell it is coming from the compost facility. I have picked up the smell as far South as Maple Valley. I don't feel Cedar Grove Compost is holding up their side of the lawsuit that was made back in 1999. It is hard to work in one's yard or go outside, when the smell is so bad. I hate to see my grandchildren go to Maple Hills Elementary School, where the smell also exists many days of the week. This air quality needs to have something done about it and now. We have tolerated odors from Cedar Grove Composting Company for too long. Complaints seem to fall on deaf ears, our children complain and sometimes won't play outside due to the smell and our poor elementary school gets hit hard with an odor that's just plain disgusting some days. While other company's seem to be able to control their odor emission and have few public complaints, Cedar Grove has yet to resolve the issue. Which brings up the current concern for the new permit; it doesn't appear to change the process by which they will control the odor, and the permit doesn't define who holds responsibility when there is a violation of odor, or show enforcement penalties or provisions. Page 11 of 27
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