Noise tests are just part of burner checks
Saturday 26th November 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
Tobin Cook from Environment Health and Brian Teed from Normandie Health and Safety monitor the noise from Whispers Vinery’s wood burner. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 1202229)
NOISE tests were carried out on a Castel vinery’s wood-burner yesterday, as part of a series of checks to assess whether the owner should be given a licence to operate it.
Neighbours of Whispers Vinery have complained about the burner – saying it produces fumes and too much noise.
Rue des Goddards resident Sarah Eker said she faced an anxious wait to see if the site would be granted a licence by Environmental Health.
The wood burner has not been operating recently and Mrs Eker said she had really noticed the difference.
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‘Silent but dealdy’
I would rather the focus was on the emmessions then the noise level.
One is an annoyance the other is of health risk potential.
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It is a puzzle. Environmental Health assured deputies that the burner would not be allowed to operate until all licence conditions had been put in place and this would include controls for the emissions. EH have confirmed that they are burning contaminated wood and in response to an enquiry from me Mrs Cameron said: “You have focussed on CCA timber, but the plant will burn a range of waste woods not just those contaminated with chromium, copper and arsenic, and so I will be requiring all chemical pollutants associated with the waste wood to be managed properly e.g. lead, formaldehydes, oxides of carbon, oxides of nitrogen to name but a few. All pollutants emanating from the site will need to meet the appropriate standards.” But we will see what happens next………….Having suffered four and a half months of it operating, presumably very dangerously, and being constantly told that it was operating within limits, I have become very cynical – I hope that I will be proved wrong.
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