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A. Transportation, storage of biosolids and land application of “Class A/Exceptional Quality Biosolids” shall not degrade the groundwater or surface water.

B. Discharge of biosolids to surface waters or surface water drainage courses is prohibited and all biosolids shall be confined to within the boundaries of the site.

C. All irrigation tailwater on sites utilized for “Class A/Exceptional Quality Biosolids” application shall be maintained on the permitted site and shall not be allowed to flow onto adjacent properties, either by means of surface or subsurface flows.

D. “Class B Biosolids” shall not be stored on the site unless approved by the city engineer due to adverse climatic or other emergency conditions which prevent production and application of “Class A/Exceptional Quality Biosolids” within forty-eight hours. Sites where “Class A/Exceptional Quality Biosolids” are stored for more than forty-eight hours shall be designed and maintained to contain all storm water falling from a ten year, twenty-four hour storm and to prevent washout or inundation from a one hundred year storm or flood.

E. Transportation, fugitive dust, surface water runoff, storage of biosolids and application of “Class A/Exceptional Quality Biosolids” shall not cause a nuisance, odors, flies or other vectors.

F. “Class A/Exceptional Quality Biosolids” with a moisture content less than fifty percent shall not be applied and incorporated when wind gusts are in excess of ten miles per hour.

G. Application of “Class A/Exceptional Quality Biosolids” shall not cause or result in the covering, disturbing or changing any part of a city street, road or highway or the placing of any obstruction or piling any material on the surface of any city street, road or highway.

H. No “Class A/Exceptional Quality Biosolids” shall be applied which contain PCBs in excess of fifty parts per million or dioxins in excess of ten parts per billion.

I. Before the land application of “Class A/Exceptional Quality Biosolids” each year, a management plan shall be submitted to the city engineer. The plan must include: fields to be used, process used to create “Class A/Exceptional Quality Biosolids” and mitigation of offsite flows through the site. (Ord. 4113 § 1, 2003)