Air Quality Rule & Open Burning
Open Burning
In general, businesses may not open burn.
Private homes in unincorporated areas may burn only untreated wood & paper products in a barrel with a mesh screen as per Indiana Rule 326 IAC 4-1. It is ALWAYS illegal to burn garbage!
If you open burn & it becomes a nuisance, you must extinguish the fire immediately. To learn more, please read IDEM’s Burning trash or yard waste in Indiana?
For more information, please contact Betsy Swearingen at (317) 346-4374 or eswearingen@co.johnson.in.us.
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