This chapter permits specific uses in specific districts, and
these performance standards are designed to limit, restrict, and prohibit
the effects of those uses outside their premises or district. No structure,
land, or water shall hereafter be used except in compliance with their
district regulations and with the following performance standards.
No activity shall emit any fly ash, dust, fumes, vapors, mists,
or gases in such quantities as to cause soiling or danger to the health
of persons, animals, vegetation, or other forms of property. No activity
shall emit any liquid or solid particles in concentrations exceeding
0.3 grains per cubic foot of the conveying gas nor any color visible
smoke equal to or darker than No. 2 on the Ringelmann Chart described
in the United States Bureau of Mine's Information Circular 7718.
All activities involving the manufacturing, utilization, processing,
or storage of inflammable and explosive materials shall be provided
with adequate safety devices against the hazard of fire and explosion
and with adequate fire-fighting and fire-suppression equipment and
devices that are standard in the industry. All materials that range
from active to intense burning shall be manufactured, utilized, processed,
and stored only in completely enclosed buildings which have incombustible
exterior walls and an automatic fire-extinguishing system. The aboveground
storage capacity of materials that produce flammable or explosive
vapors shall not exceed the following:
|
Closed Cup Flash Point
|
Gallons
|
|---|---|
|
Over 187° F.
|
400,000
|
|
105° F. to 187° F.
|
200,000
|
|
Below 105° F.
|
100,000
|
No activity shall emit glare or heat that is visible or measurable
outside its premises. All operations producing intense glare or heat
shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building. Exposed
sources of light shall be shielded so as not to be visible outside
their premises.
A.
No activity
shall discharge at any point onto any land or into any water or public
sewer any materials of such nature, quantity, noxiousness, toxicity,
or temperature which can contaminate, pollute, or harm the quantity
or quality of any water supply, can cause the emission of dangerous
or offensive elements, can overload the existing municipal utilities,
or can injure or damage persons or property.
B.
This
section does not apply in agricultural districts.
A.
No activity shall produce a sound level outside the district boundary
that exceeds the following sound level measured by a sound level meter
and associated octave band filter:
|
Octave Band Frequency
(cycles per second)
|
Sound Level
(decibels)
| |
|---|---|---|
|
0 to 75
|
79
| |
|
75 to 150
|
74
| |
|
150 to 300
|
66
| |
|
300 to 600
|
59
| |
|
600 to 1,200
|
53
| |
|
1,200 to 2,400
|
47
| |
|
2,400 to 4,800
|
41
| |
|
Above 4,800
|
39
|
B.
No other activity in any other district shall produce a sound level
outside its premises that exceeds the following:
|
Octave Band Frequency
(cycles per second)
|
Sound Level
(decibels)
| |
|---|---|---|
|
0 to 75
|
72
| |
|
75 to 150
|
67
| |
|
150 to 300
|
59
| |
|
300 to 600
|
52
| |
|
600 to 1,200
|
46
| |
|
1,200 to 2,400
|
40
| |
|
2,400 to 4,800
|
34
| |
|
Above to 4,800
|
32
|
C.
All noise shall be so muffled or otherwise controlled as not to become
objectionable due to intermittence, duration, beat frequency, impulse
character, periodic character or shrillness.
D.
This
section does not apply in agricultural districts.
A.
No activity
shall emit any odorous matter of such nature or quantity as to be
offensive, obnoxious, or unhealthful outside their premises. The guide
for determining odor measurement and control shall be Chapter 13,
Air Pollution Abatement Manual 1960, prepared by the Manufacturing
Chemists' Association Inc., Washington, D.C. Agriculture odors associated
with normal agricultural activities are exempted from this section.
B.
This
section does not apply in agricultural districts.
No activity shall emit radioactivity or electrical disturbances
outside its premises that are dangerous or adversely affect the use
of neighboring premises.
No activity in any district shall emit vibrations which are
discernible without instruments outside its premises.
A.
No activity shall locate, store, discharge, or permit the discharge
of any treated, untreated, or inadequately treated liquid, gaseous,
or solid materials of such nature, quantity, obnoxiousness, toxicity
or temperature that would be likely to runoff, seep, percolate or
wash into surface or subsurface waters so as to contaminate, pollute,
or harm such waters or cause nuisances such as objectionable shore
deposits, floating or submerged debris, oil or scum, color, odor,
taste, or unsightliness or be harmful to human, animal, plant, or
aquatic life.
B.
In addition, no activity shall discharge any liquid, gaseous, or
solid materials so as to exceed or contribute toward the exceeding
of the minimum standards and those other standards and the application
of those standards set forth in Ch. NR 102, Wis. Adm. Code, for all
navigable waters.
