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Chapter 13.02
Section 13.02.0109
 

Title 13 Public Utilities and Services

Chapter 13.02 Solid Waste

Article I. Definitions

Section 13.02.0109 Construction, Demolition and Landclearing Waste
  1. “Construction, demolition and landclearing waste” or “CDL waste” means any combination of recyclable or nonrecyclable construction, demolition and landclearing waste that results from and is incidental to construction, remodeling, repair or demolition of buildings, roads or other structures, or from landclearing for development, and requires removal from the site of construction, demolition or landclearing.
     
  2. “Construction waste” means wood, concrete, drywall/wallboard, masonry, roofing, siding, structural metal, wire insulation, carpet, carpet pad, metal or PVC pipe, porcelain plumbing fixtures, steel, insulation, and other building material; and plastics, styrofoam, twine, baling and strapping materials, cans, buckets, and other packaging materials and containers. It also includes sand, rocks and dirt that are used in construction. In no event shall construction waste include dangerous or extremely hazardous waste of any kind, garbage, sewerage waste, animal carcasses or asbestos.
     
  3. “Demolition waste” means solid, waste, largely inert waste resulting from the demolition or razing of buildings, roads and other man-made structures. Demolition waste consists of, but is not limited to, concrete, brick, bituminous concrete, wood and masonry, composition roofing and roofing paper, steel, and minor amounts of other metals, such as copper. Plaster (i.e. drywall, sheet rock or plasterboard) or any other material, other than wood, that is likely to produce gases or a leachate during the decomposition process and asbestos wastes are not considered to be demolition waste for the purposes of this regulation.
     
  4. “Inert Waste” means non-combustible, non-dangerous solid wastes that are likely to retain their physical and chemical structure under expected conditions of disposal, including resistance to biological attack and chemical attack from acidic rainwater.
     
  5. “Landclearing waste” means natural vegetation and minerals, such as stumps, brush, blackberry vines, tree branches, and associated dirt, sand, tree bark, sod and rocks.
     
  6. No putrescible wastes are permitted as construction, demolition or landclearing wastes.

Date Passed: Monday, June 24, 2013

Effective Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2013

ORD C34994 Section 4