Some residents explicit concerns implicit burning debris

Some Nassau County residents are expressing their concerns implicit burning debris.

NASSAU COUNTY, Fla. – Some Nassau County residents are expressing their concerns implicit burning debris.

The residents who unrecorded successful the Harbor Concourse country accidental they’re having lung problems from aggravated amounts of smoke.

Nassau County commissioners connected Monday evening voted 3-2 to walk a memorandum to assistance hole these concerns.

Kathy Reed lives successful the Harbor Concourse area, wherever developers person been burning debris utilizing aerial curtain incinerators, which are expected to trim aerial emissions portion burning.

“It’s a scary happening erstwhile your wellness is for sale,” Reed said.

According to neighbors, developers were burning debris with these decisions for 7 days a week for six weeks.

“They speech astir fume successful the morning. No, it was similar that each time long. It was a haze that went implicit the property,” Reed said.

Reed said she present has inflamed lungs from the smoke.

Nassau County Commissioner Aaron Bell spoke against aerial curtain incinerator burning astatine Monday night’s committee meeting.

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“There’s nary mode it was done properly,” helium said.

When Bell asked if the region could prohibition unfastened burning altogether, helium was told that wouldn’t beryllium possible.

Under the memorandum passed Monday nighttime by commissioners to assistance determination the fume distant from residents, these are present the rules for aerial curtain incinerators:

  • Residents person to person a licence from the Florida Forest Service

  • Burning cannot beryllium little than 750 feet from an occupied building

  • Burning should beryllium located nary little than 100 feet from wildland brush

  • The atmospheric dispersion scale betwixt 30 and 100 — much restrictive than forestry requires

  • Start earlier 9:30 a.m. and flames should beryllium extinguished nary much than an hr earlier sunset

But immoderate radical astatine the committee gathering did talk retired against the memorandum.

The region lawyer said Nassau County whitethorn suspend burning enactment if the memorandum is disobeyed.

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