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Medical waste incinerator still sparks concern

We're talking bio-hazards being burned at this plant, not some run of the mill industrial shop emitting saw dust. If you can smell it or see particulate then the burn is incomplete and who knows what deadly toxic bio-hazards are being dumped on the valley? Bio-hazard waste should be destroyed farther away from populated and residential neighborhoods where people live and spend most of their time. Bio-hazards can have an accumulative affect on health and the DAQ is basically admitting they are not monitoring this facility or the residents near by. Home building and occupation should be restricted until the DAQ can establish the accumulative levels of toxins with their own testing and not that of the company. It is redicousl that this agency allow company testing of corruptable data to rely on. The DAQ should do all its own testing, its what they are paid to do, and provide all data to the public. The DAQ really doesn't know why air quality is so bad and where its coming from in Utah. Without any facts on industrial and commercial pollution, the DAQ has made it very easy for commercial business to falsify emission data.

ok from a few years working in the med waste feild. The only time you would see any particulate is when the dump stack is forced to open during a power failure, or catastrophic systems failure. The smell coming from the waste inside the plant is what you may have been smelling, as exaust gasses are less pungent than flatulance. It's not that the waste treatment plant should be built further away from homes it's that home should not be built in industrial area's. Industrial area's exist so companys can avoid the "not in my back yard" senario, it's the home builders fault for putting the houses in an industrial area. Finally all air polution equipment records for up to 5 years are open to inspection by goverment agencies at any time with out notice. the stack testing mentioned in the article is preformed under federal guide line on a 3 year minimum basis.