(A) Within ten business days of the date the abatement order is mailed to the owner of the site, the owner shall accomplish the following:
(1) Provide the City’s Building Official with written notification:
(a) The owner has confirmed that all persons and their pets have vacated the site;
(b) Of the name(s) of all children who the owner believes were residing at the site during the time period the clandestine drug lab or chemical dump site is suspected to have been at the site; and
(c) The site will remain vacated and secured until the public health nuisance is completely abated as required by this subchapter.
(2) Contract with one or more City-approved environmental hazard testing and cleaning firms to conduct the following work in accordance with the most current State Department of Health guidelines;
(a) A detailed on-site assessment of the extent of contamination at the site and the contamination of the personal property therein;
(b) Soil testing of the site and testing of all property and soil proximity to the site which the environmental hazard testing and cleaning firm determines may have been affected by the condition found at the site;
(c) A complete clean up of the site (including, but not limited to, the clean up or removal of contaminated plumbing, ventilation systems, fixtures and contaminated soil) or a demolition of the site and a complete clean up of the demolished site;
(d) A complete clean up, or disposal at an approved dump site, of all contaminated personal property in the site;
(e) A complete clean up of all property and soil in proximity to the site which is found to have been affected by the conditions found at the site; and
(f) Remediation testing and follow-up testing, including, but not limited to, testing of the ventilation system and plumbing, to determine that all health risks are sufficiently reduced, according to the state’s Department of Health guidelines, to allow safe human occupancy and use of the site and use of the personal property therein and of all property and soil in proximity to the site.
(3) Provide the City’s Building Official with the identity of the testing and cleaning firm with which the owner has contracted for abatement of the public health nuisance as required above; and
(4) Sign an agreement with the City’s Building Official establishing a clean up schedule. The schedule shall establish reasonable deadlines for completing all actions required by this subchapter for abatement of the public health nuisance. In determining appropriate deadlines, the City’s Building Official shall consider practical limitations and the availability of contractors in approving the schedule for clean up.
(B) The site owner must meet all deadlines established on the clean up schedule. Also, pursuant to the deadlines established by the clean up schedule, the site owner is required to provide the City’s Building Official with written documentation of the clean up process, including a signed statement from a City-approved environmental hazard testing and cleaning firm that the site, all personal property therein, and all property and soil in proximity to the site, is safe for human occupancy and use, and that the clean up was conducted in accordance with the most current State Department of Health guidelines.
(Prior Code, § 905.07)