Check below to see if your school is within 3 miles of the incinerator’s smokestack:
| * Ballenger Creek Elementary * Ballenger Creek Middle * Crestwood Middle * The Earth and Space Science Center * Frederick High * Hillcrest Elementary * Lincoln Elementary * Maryland School for the Deaf |
* Monocacy Valley Montessori Public Charter * Orchard Grove Elementary * Parkway Elementary * the proposed new St. John’s at Prospect Hall High School * St. Thomas More Academy * Tuscarora Elementary * Tuscarora High * West Frederick Middle |
Frederick Memorial Hospital is within 3 miles too.
1) Here’s the Delaware law (see entire text) regarding no siting of incinerators within 3 miles of homes, schools and hospitals:
"Section 4. Further Amend § 6003(c), Title 7 of the Delaware Code, by adding thereto the following new subsection:
"(2) no permit may be granted to any incinerator unless:
"a. the property on which the incinerator is or would be located is within an area which is zoned for heavy industrial activity; and shall be subject to such process rules, regulations or ordinances as the county, municipality or other government entity shall require by law, such as a conditional use, so that conditions may be applied regarding the health, safety and welfare of the citizens within the jurisdiction; and
"b. every point on the property boundary line of the property on which the incinerator is or would be located is (i) at least 3 miles from every point on the property boundary line of any residence, (ii) at least 3 miles from every point on the property boundary line of any residential community, and (iii) at least 3 miles from every point on the property boundary line of any church, school, park, or hospital."
