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The Buffalo News : City & Region
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Council bans fire pits, wood-burning boilers
LOCKPORT — So far as officials know, no one in the city has an outdoor wood-burning boiler, but that didn’t stop the Common Council from making them illegal.
Aldermen voted unanimously Tuesday to amend the city code to ban such boilers, which produce heat and hot water for homes.
The Council also outlawed outdoor use of fire pits, fireplaces or similar devices.
“Anything that produces smoke, if it doesn’t have a chimney, according to the Niagara County sanitary code and the state fire code, it’s illegal,” Fire Chief Thomas J. Passuite said. “You can’t do it.”
Boilers often have short stacks, which technically are not chimneys.
“We’re not trying to be bad guys,” said Alderman Patrick W. Schrader, D-4th Ward. “We’re just trying to keep people who have problems with smoke from being ill.”
The boilers are most popular in rural communities. Passuite presented a list of municipalities that have banned or regulated them. Most, including the city of Watertown, are in Northern New York.
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