COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Coldwater City Council Monday night officially adopted Ordinance No. 891 to crack down on nuisance odors, establishing clear local guidelines and a specialized air-dilution measurement system to hold offending businesses and properties accountable.
Frustrated by persistent delays from the State of Michigan’s Air Quality Division, which requires a trained official to travel from Kalamazoo to physically smell the air, the council took matters into their own hands to prevent changing weather and wind patterns from letting violators off the hook.
The newly approved ordinance bypasses the state’s subjective intensity scale by adopting an objective dilution standard utilized by multiple states…