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.

Maybe I will see you there.

William Djubin
Founder
EarthRehab

Lecture on Sea Level Rise
5/12/2008 7:00 PM open
FAU

You are invited to a free lecture on sea level rise by Dr. Harold Wanless on Monday May 12 at 7 p.m. at Florida Atlantic University’s Jupiter campus auditorium. Dr. Wanless, chairman of the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Miami, will deliver a talk titled “Comes the Sea: Earth’s Changing Coastal Future” as the keynote address for the 2008 Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment. The institute is organized by the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. Both the lecture and institute are sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation. To download the flyer for this lecture, visit Sea Level Rise Lecture Flyer

WHEN: Monday, May 12, 2008 — 7:00 PM
WHERE : Florida Atlantic University’s Jupiter Campus
Administration Building Auditorium, AD 119
(auditorium is the first building to the left upon entering the Jupiter campus parking lot)

Light refreshments will be served.

You may RSVP for this lecture by emailing Scripps Institute or by calling 561-799-8462.

Most regulations, especially the testing requirements have not changed much, as is obvious in our water pollution regulations, which now for half a decade have been based on a faulty applied pollution test.

The goal of the Clan Water Act was the elimination of all water pollution by 1985, but when EPA implemented the CWA, it set certain treatment standards and used an essential test incorrectly. Since sewage treatment plants were violating their discharge permits, while in fact treating sewage better than was required by the permit, EPA in 1984 acknowledged the problems with this test, but in stead of correcting the test (to make it finally possible to evaluate the real performance of sewage treatment plants and to determine their effluent waste loadings on receiving water bodies), EPA allowed an alternative test and officially ignored all the water pollution caused by nitrogenous (urine and protein) waste and lowered the goal of the CWA from 100% treatment to a measly 35% treatment, without even informing Congress.

This, while nitrogenous waste, like fecal waste, exerts and oxygen demand, but also in all its forms is a nutrient (fertilizer) for algae and aquatic plants, now even by EPA recognized as the largest water pollution problem in our open waters, causing eutrophication and eventually dead zones, noticeable worldwide in large water bodies, but especially in the Gulf of Mexico.

So while we still use our open waters as giant urinals, nobody seems to care and nobody can he held accountable. Apparently this is too technical an issue to get involved.
So, as along as we still use our open water as urinals, we will have to deal with all those new chemical compounds that get into sewage and are not treated in our sewage treatment facilities, enter our open waters and show up in our drinking water, since that type of drinking water treatment again is only concerned with certain tests, which do not address these PPCP’s (Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products).

If you like to learn more visit http://www.petermaier.net and look in the technical PDF section and read the description of the BOD (Biochemical Oxidation Demand) test. How it should be applied and what the consequences are if you apply the test as it sadly is still applied worldwide.

April 19th will have an EarthDay event in Jupiter like none before.
Just North of Turtlefest on A1A something exciting will happen.
3 large beach tents, lots of banners and Kite’s flying high.

EarthRehab and Keep Palm Beach County Beautiful have scheduled the 1st annual ‘Kite Beach to Corners’ cleanup for Jupiter’s shores.

The Jupiter Middle School ‘Treehuggers’ and EarthRehab will help with the organization, administration, and passing out the goodies for your efforts. (Hats, Green License Plates and Ocean Minded Sandals)
Locals Surf Shop and Blue Water Surfing will help direct the volunteers.
Ocean Minded Sandals will have a prize give away for the most trash collected.

Local Surf, Dive, Kite Boarders and Beach enthusiasts are asked to volunteer to keep our beautiful stretch of shoreline free from debris.

Special thanks go to Loggerhead MLC, Friends of Jupiter Beach, Busch Wildlife Sanctuary, Perry Institute for Marine Science, WJTW FM radio, Taras Oceanographic, FAU, Jupiter High School Environment Club, and our local Kite Board shop for passing out the Flyers.

Go to EarthRehab.com and reserve your spot on the beach today.

Our campaign has been on ScubaDivng Magazine, Surfing Magazine, Daily Green, NBC, Fox Network and AAA Going Places to accompany the IYOR 2008 main page with Reef Check Globals web-site.

William Djubin
Founder
EarthRehab

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Would you please consider adding information about the eco-awareness campaign, InterNational Downshifting Week, at http://www.DownshiftingWeek.com

Many thanks,
Tracey Smith