May 12, 2008, 3:58 pm
Filed under: Blogroll, Enviro-news, earthrehab, environmental | Tags: eco, beach, reef, water, erosion, jpeg, politics, pollution, photo, quality, tmdl, wqms, renourishment, endangered species
Filed under: Blogroll, Enviro-news, earthrehab, environmental | Tags: eco, beach, reef, water, erosion, jpeg, politics, pollution, photo, quality, tmdl, wqms, renourishment, endangered species
I posted a lot this past April and May 2008 regarding Florida’s Water Pollution issue on GreenReality; the politics of Green.
The politics of Green is EarthRehab’s political web-site, feel free to express your concerns.
Topic’s like The Clean Water Act, Pollution Pipes just off the coast, Water Quality Monitoring, TMDL, Pollution Reporting, and the Endangered Species Act vs. Beach Erosion and Renourishment.
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As long as EPA does not consider nitrogenous waste (urine and protein) a pollution, we will never implement the Clean Water Act, as it was intended. This waste not only, like fecal waste, exerts an oxygen demand, but also is a fertilizer for algae and aquatic plant growth, causing eutrophication and eventually dead zones.
The reason EPA ignored this pollution is caused by a worldwide incorrect applied pollution test that EPA used to base its NPDES discharge permits on.
Although EPA in 1984 acknowledged this incorrect use, in stead of correcting the test, it allowed an alternative test and now officially ignored this type of pollution and by doing so lowered the goal of the CWA from 100% treatment to a measly 35% treatment, without notifying Congress.
Other problems caused by this incorrect applied test are that we do not know the real performance of a sewage treatment plants and have no idea what the effluent waste loading is on receiving water bodies, besides the possibility that such plants are designed to treat the wrong waste in sewage.
Want to know more visit http://www.petermaier.net and read the description of this test (BOD) in the Technical PDF section.
Comment by Peter Maier May 13, 2008 @ 4:05 pm