ADAMS, Mass. — The Board of Health is drafting local rules to govern Dumpsters.
According to Code Enforcement Officer Scott Koczela, the board has fielded complaints regarding Dumpsters and large trash containers that are overflowing, contain rotting food and attracting animals but they town does not have much recourse to go after owners. The board is now following state Department of Public Health rules to draft its own policy.
The focus is more for commercial properties and intended to regulate the size, frequency of being emptied and location, Board of Health Chairman Richard Frost said on Wednesday.
A draft of the policy calls for a $50 fine for each violation. The regulations are expected to require dumpsters to be enclosed or screened from public view; receive approval from the board for location; not be filled between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. for residential or after business hours for commercial; only be emptied between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.; be the appropriate size; be locked at night and hold the property owner responsible for maintaining it.
Grease receptacles for restaurants are also included in the regulations, which are careful to separate Dumpster-style containers from typical household trash bins.
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well i guess it wont be hard to monitor the half-dozen commercial properties in Adams now will it.... and for those who didn't know, that was a full-on snarky comment. Let's focus on more regulation of our businesses while we are sooo good at bringing them in... oops there goes that sarcasm again.
It says in the article it is mainly for commercial property and then it goes on to mandate when you can take your trash out residentially, if I understood it correctly. If you have a problem with a certain business, or rental block deal with that person. Stop making life miserable for everyone for the actions of a few. Enclosures sometimes aren't feasible, and end up looking worse because they get damaged in the weather or from the trucks doing the pick up; and locks? Then what handing out keys to tenants, then tenants move out, make more keys or change the lock, blah blah. How can the property owner be responsible for the dumpster's upkeep that they don't own? If you work at odd hours you can't take your trash out. Come on, really? Do you want to mandate when I can flush my toilet because it may disturb my neighbor and between what hours I can use it. It just seems to get out of hand. Maybe Adams can hand out a rule book for living so we can check it each morning before leaving the house.
