[Vision2020] Banned uses in the Groundwater Protection Zone Part 2

[Mark Solomon]

Phil,

This language has been in the code for 25 years. 
It is currently listed under Section 9.03.E as a 
conditionally permitted use in industrial zones 
only. The proposed draft extends it to a 
prohibition OUTSIDE THE CITY OF MOSCOW. State 
Right to Farm laws exempt agriculture.

Mark Solomon

At 8:06 AM -0700 6/26/05, Phil Nisbet wrote:
>So lets jump to the next Ban use for the 
>Groundwater overlay zone.  This one sounds 
>great, but may be adverse to things you do not 
>think about.
>
>5.02.07 Prohibited Uses
>
>5. Processing and/or storage of toxic materials, 
>poisonous gases and/or radioactive materials.
>
>
>Now who exactly is storing or using toxic 
>materials in the area surrounding Moscow?
>
>People need to be very careful in dealing with a 
>blanket prohibition like this, because EPA 
>defined toxics are very wide spread.
>
>The biggest end user and group that stores toxic 
>materials, including poisonous gases, is the 
>University of Idaho.  This particular ban may 
>have wide ranging impacts on research by that 
>institution.
>
>The of course we have the toxic gases used in 
>any number of small scale applications like 
>welding.
>
>And the radioactive materials storage ban is a 
>rolling hoot.  It makes it sound like the 
>ordinance is geared to protect us from the 
>siting of a nuke waste repository, but what is 
>it really?  Try things like parts for X-ray 
>machines or things like that, which have 
>radioactive sources.  Then there are medical 
>tracers that have radioactive components. 
>Hanford is not going to ship high level wastes 
>here, but we have storage of any number of 
>pieces of gear that use high tech radioactive 
>components.  Are we going to really ban these 
>applications or the storage of the part that 
>make them up within the groundwater overlay?
>
>Then of course we have to ask if the 
>agricultural chemical exemption covers toxics. 
>That’s not clear from this draft of the 
>ordinance.  Is Roundup and other toxic herbicide 
>application to be banned in the Groundwater 
>Overlay Zone?  How about some of the gases used 
>for protection of wheat and lentils in the grain 
>silos in the overlay zone?
>
>And if somebody warehouses things like ant 
>spray, which by all definitions is a toxic, are 
>they in violation?  How about rural home owners 
>who have a stockpile of poison for the spring 
>spraying for leaf rollers?
>
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