RESPONSE SUMMARY - Puget Sound Clean Air Agency

RESPONSE SUMMARY
ORIGINAL DRAFT ORDER OF APPROVAL NO. 10052
Comment Period – April 29 - June 15, 2010
· There are eight other odor sources in the immediate area of the
Cedar Grove facility, including King County’s Cedar Hills
landfill, which is located right next door.
· Notwithstanding some of the comments made at the public
hearing, multiple studies have demonstrated that odors from
composting operations are not injurious to public health or to
Cedar Grove’s own employees.
· Cedar Grove utilizes state of the art composting technology
that has been determined to be Best Available Control
Technology by PSCAA. Assertions that other composting
facilities use higher end technology and therefore do not have
odor complaints are misguided. Cedar Grove utilizes in many
cases the exact same technology, but faces additional challenges
when compared with other operators, e.g., lower population
densities, much lower tonnage being processed, smaller foot
print, lack of finished compost storage on site, and wind
directions that blow to agricultural areas instead of housing
areas. These are just a few of the differences between our
facility and other composters.
Cedar Grove
Composting, Inc
Comments on Public
Notice for Draft Order of
Approval No. 10052
(Written, June 14)
· This permit calls for many of the items that the neighbors have
been requesting.
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Indoor receiving
Indoor grinding
Reduced dust from new screening operation
Third party review of our operations (biofilters)
Specific and detail inspections on a daily basis
Quick corrections to deficiencies noted
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