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F <br />StYROPOAM DOCK FLOTATION PROHIBfttfEO <br />After much discussion ^nd upon the recommendat 1 :-n of Orono's Lake <br />Uso Commlttfcit, the City Council adopted an ordinance in July <br />prohibiting the use of non-encased styrofoam as a method of dock <br />flotation. Styrofoam disintegration due to animal or ice action <br />has resulted in significant amounts of styrofoam beads <br />accumulating on the shoreline In some bays, constituting a public <br />nuisance. The Council concluded that there are many options for <br />dock flotation other than unprotected styrofoam billets. <br />The new ordinance includes the following major reguireim«*ntsi <br />1. ’’Non-encased styrofoam" is defined as a block, <br />sheet, or b«llet of expanded polystyrene beads which is <br />not completely encased in u permanent contsiner or <br />coating that prevents disintegration. <br />2. As of the date of the ordinance (July 27, 1992), no <br />new docks, swia platforms, buoys, or other floating <br />structures may be constructed using non-encesed <br />styrofoam for flotation, <br />3. existing docks, swim platforms, buoys, etc. using <br />non-encased styrofoam may continue to be used only until <br />Oecembet 31, 1994. <br />4. Any repair or replsceaent of existing styrofoam <br />flotation during tn# 1992-1994 -grace period- must use <br />alternative flotation methods. <br />Any guest tons regarding the ban on styrofoam flotAtion should be <br />addressed to the building and Zoning Deoer*ment, 47I-7IS7. <br />\ <br />0 ' <br />V*