Massachusetts DEP snuck this through

[Scootermsp]

http://www.mass.gov/dep/service/regulations/ohhregfl.pdf

Effective 12/26/2008. Doesn't hurt me as I have over 500ft to nearest neighbor.opcorn:

 

[beerman6]

reading that kinda stuff gives me a headache...

 

[KH-1958]

http://www.mass.gov/dep/service/regulations/ohhregfl.pdf

Effective 12/26/2008. Doesn't hurt me as I have over 500ft to nearest neighbor.opcorn:

State government at its worst. Our city/state bureaucrats dictating what they think is best from there oil fueled houses and apartments. :censored:

 

[Nuzzy]

I cringe every time another one of these passes.

 

[techman]

Pretty limiting, looks like you need about 10 acres min to comply, 300' from property lines and 275' from house. Whoever wrote this up must have lived next to someone that burned garbage in the heater.

 

[Dalmatian90]

Unless I'm missing something, the 300' & 275' is for commercial installs.

Homeowner rules are 50' from property line, 75' from a dwelling *not* served by the burner.

 

[Scootermsp]

Existing units

My CB5036 is over 500' from nearest dwelling so I've no stack requirement other than manufacturer and NO seasonal limits . But as of 12/26/08 no more CB classic models can be sold in Mass. My dealer only has E-Classic 2300s on his lot....he's sitting on about 30+ of them, I was at his place today....he's aces...a really good guy.

 

[MATTYB11]

Unless I'm missing something, the 300' & 275' is for commercial installs.

Homeowner rules are 50' from property line, 75' from a dwelling *not* served by the burner.

That's how I understood it.

 

[Labman]

I think the law is to protect people like me from the idiot up wind whose noxious wood burning fumes leave me coughing and my eyes burning when I am outside.

 

[techman]

That's how I understood it.

That's what I get for skimming it.

 

[November Wolf]

I sure am glad I live way out in the country and don't have to worry about this yet. Here in michigan the laws are coming in 2010. All new OWB have to be the new style EPA gasification kind. From what I was told all others installed before then will be grandfathered in. We shall see.

 

[Wet1]

I'm glad to see they did this and I'm sure more will follow. I have no problem with them on a farm, but traditional OWB's don't belong in residential areas.

 

[Zodiac45]

I agree that they need some regs. It's always the few that screw it up for the many. I think the distances are fair enough and I actually like the prohibited fuels list. #19 animal carcasses? Hmmmmm.

 

[olyman]

I'm glad to see they did this and I'm sure more will follow. I have no problem with them on a farm, but traditional OWB's don't belong in residential areas.

righhtttttt!!!

 

[johnha]

c'mon now, governments don't 'sneak' anything through. It looks like those regs have been in the works since at least 2005. Get informed and fight the fights.

Here in PA, where we're well known for gov't sneaks, you can subscribe to a listserv that gives you a daily listing of all legislation in the house and senate.

 

[Slick]

c'mon now, governments don't 'sneak' anything through. It looks like those regs have been in the works since at least 2005. Get informed and fight the fights.

Here in PA, where we're well known for gov't sneaks, you can subscribe to a listserv that gives you a daily listing of all legislation in the house and senate.

Have you seen anything in PA on the books about OWB?

 

[Butch(OH)]

Man it hurts to admit it but those come as close to common sense as any I have read, and from Mass for crying out loud!!!???

My boiler bothers nobody that I have been made aware of and meets those regs but fails a lot of others I have read. Ohio backed down because there was a huge backlash to their proposed regs. We got a boost from our state reps when they got involved and informed the state EPA that they had a boss bigger than the trees and streams,,, called voters. Someone else said get involved and I cant agree more. In Ohio we learned from the Libs on this one, squeaky wheels get grease, silently rolling wheels get ignored.

 

[Nuzzy]

I agree that they need some regs. It's always the few that screw it up for the many. I think the distances are fair enough and I actually like the prohibited fuels list. #19 animal carcasses? Hmmmmm.

While I agree to an extent, the thing that worries me the most is the slippery slope we end up on. What seems like reasonable regs now may get the ball rolling into intolerable regs later


Always seems these things are a double edged sword.

 

[Butch(OH)]

While I agree to an extent, the thing that worries me the most is the slippery slope we end up on. What seems like reasonable regs now may get the ball rolling into intolerable regs later


Always seems these things are a double edged sword.

Anyone who burns wood and wishes to continue doing it no matter the apparatus should not ballyhoo these kinds of laws. BUT when caught between the choice of regs that ban OWBs or common sense regs the only choice I have is to side with the regs.

I guess that makes me a slippery sloper, LOL

 

[CentaurG2]

BUT when caught between the choice of regs that ban OWBs or common sense regs the only choice I have is to side with the regs.

I guess that makes me a slippery sloper, LOL

Funny, they said the same thing about handguns in Mass. My Vermont Castings Vigilant used to produce more smoke than my Central Boiler and that was with dry seasoned hardwoods. Regs are not affecting me but where Mass goes the rest of New England usually follows.