§ 13-20-10-4 — Location of active areas of facilities

Indiana § 13-20-10-4

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 20: SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
• Ch. 10: Registration of Facilities for Composting Certain

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(a) Except as provided in sections 5 and 6 of
this chapter, the active area of a composting facility may not be located
within:
(1) two hundred (200) feet of a well that supplies potable water;
or
(2) two hundred (200) feet of a residential structure that exists at
the time that the composting facility initially registers under this
chapter.
(b) A composting facility:
(1) must be located outside the ten (10) year floodplain, except for
a composting facility that is either:
(A) operated in conjunction with a publicly owned works
permitted under IC 13-15-3; or
(B) designed and operated to prevent ground or surface water
contamination in the event of a ten (10) year flood;
(2) must be designed and operated to prevent ground water and
surface water contamination from:
(A) stormwater; and
(B) leachate runoff from the composting facility;
(3) must not locate compost within five (5) feet of the seasonal
high water table unless the composting facility provides adequate
controls to prevent ground water or surface water contamination;
and
(4) must provide controls for the following:
(A) Dust.
(B) Odor.
(C) Noise.
(c) If compost material that contains food waste is present in a
composting facility, the composting facility must provide controls for
vectors and pathogens in addition to the controls required by subsection
(b)(4).
[Pre-1996 Recodification Citation: 13-7-35-6(a).]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.1-1996, SEC.10. Amended by P.L.199-2014, SEC.10; P.L.200-2017, SEC.4.