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OCSD: 20,000 METRIC TONS (mt) of fecal solids/year, 240mgd San Diego: 10,000 mt of fecal solids/year Goleta: much smaller Morro Bay: much smaller 1. OCSD is the first waiver holder voluntarily giving it up (Los Angeles supposedly never had a real waiver), as we have seen. STATUS: Support Board, eventual FULL RECLAMATION. 2. San Diego not only applied for a renewal of its waiver, but asked for an INCREASE in "mass loading" to 15,000 mt. STATUS: SWB and EPA must be pressured to STOP the SD waiver. 3. Goleta Sanitary District (GSD) applied for waiver, but heroic local RWQCB (Region 3, Goleta), on the urging of HealTheOcean, denied waiver based on past and projected future damage from the 7mgd of sewage (93% gets secondary treatment). STATUS: SWB must validate RWQCB and STOP the GSD waiver. SAN
DIEGO LETTERS NEEDED! The following letters will be filled out and signed,
then ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chairman
Arthur Baggett, Jr. ATTN:
Elizabeth Miller Jennings, Senior Staff Council PLEASE
DISTRIBUTE TO THE BOARD Dear Chairman Baggett and Members of the Board: I strongly oppose the San Diego 301(h) sewage waiver. The Coastal Commission has ruled that the "waivers" are not consistent with near-shore Ocean quality, the health of the habitat, recreational uses of the Beach and Ocean, and our fisheries and Ocean resources. Please listen to the many people and groups which are urging you to deny this waiver, and force San Diego into a compliance schedule similar to that used by Los Angeles, and that which will be worked out for Orange County as OCSD gives up its 301(h) sewage waiver. The
Coastal Commission ruling recognized practical difficulties that require
some time for San Diego to come into compliance with modern water treatment
standards. They asked for 3 immediate good faith indications that San
Diego will be moving to reduce its sewage impact, 1. REDUCE mass loading near last year's 8,888 metric tons, instead of increasing mass loading to 13,995 or 15,000 metric tons. 2. RECLAMATION must play a much larger role, with a goal of total reclamation and an end to Ocean outfall discharges. 3. TESTING of the offshore bench, at depths now ignored, to determine if permit violations are occurring. This issue is very important to the people of California. Please do not make the mistake of underestimating it, or of thinking that the State Water Board's decision can be made, as previously, in relative obscurity. There is a growing water quality crisis in Southern California. Decades of "deferred maintenance" can no longer be put off. Your actions will be measured against the much higher standards necessary for protection of our water resources in an era of shrinking supplies, expanding waste disposal, and densely packed tracts where wetlands, grasslands and rivers once flourished. Sincerely, _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ cc.
StopTheWaiver,
P.O. Box 2911, Seal Beach CA 90740---------------------------------------------------------- What
do you think of the sophistication of that Board member, huh, delicately
and "scientifically" claiming that the regional I guess it's NOT screwing up to "spew the sewage over the ocean floor"? These
state and regional boards have been ducking the Clean Water Act for
too long, and must be called into account for After
all, they were tagged with the responsibility, and they have, apparently
and evidently, FAILED miserably to protect In
Jack Doyle's book, "Taken for a ride", he shows how paid-for
"science" and "biostitutes" were used by the Oilies
to circumvent the Clean Air Act. It's not surprising that the sewagers
use local "scientific" resources to "sell" the idea
that sewage is /Doug Back to T.O.C. 2
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