March 10, 2010 in City

Outdoor burning not allowed

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The Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency is reminding residents that outdoor burning of residential yard debris is no longer allowed.

The “8-Day Spring Burn” program ended in 2009 as part of the agency’s efforts to reduce air pollution. This year, the agency will enforce outdoor burning restrictions by responding to reports of illegal burning. To report illegal burns, call (509) 477-4727 or visit www.spokanecleanair.com.

To help alleviate the need to burn, free composting training will be offered from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 10 by the Spokane County Master Composters at Fire Station 49, located at Highway 395 near Monroe Road.

At the event, the Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency will accept natural vegetation from residents.

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  misjustice on March 10 at 4:05 p.m.

  If the agency truly wants to reduce airborn pollutants, then help us get the unpaved streets of the city paved.

  I live in the city limits, two streets that border my property are dirt…when it is dry and people speed up and down those streets dirt gets stirred up and hangs in the air for a long time. Everything outside gets covered in dust and it also seeps inside to my home. This is a larger/greater menance than a few days of burning yard debris because it is ongoing, year round; and yet, the agency will not address the problem of unpaved roads and the particulates that are injected into our air.

  Instead, the agency hassles citizens that legally burn firewood to heat their homes and now ban outdoor seasonal burning by citizens.

  Meanwhile, to the east of us, huge expanses of “farm” land are burned to generate seed for corporate agriculture. And when the smoke seeps into our area the “Clean Air Authority” is silent.