Environmental Press # 111

Subj: OOG: OMTS Microfiltration Tommorow, San Diego Waiver Letter Needed
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:57:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: Jon V3
To: Jon V3
Dear Ocean Outfall Group (OOG), dedicated to ending the 301(h) waiver held by the Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD):

Very Important OMTS meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept 4, 5 PM at OCSD headquarters, 10844 Ellis, Fountain Valley. Permit progress, secondary performance, microfiltration all being discussed. Go To OCSD.com, Board of Directors, Committees, OMTS Committee, September 4. Here comes microfiltration (MF). More money is being asked for microfiltration. While it is good to continue research into MF, current knowledge gleaned from the PAC2 meetings was that MF is more expensive than the biologic full secondary activated sludge systems and required a higher rate increase to the public. And you needed a waiver for MF. Please attend these meetings to keep abreast of how OCSD plans to switch to full secondary requirements.

For the San Diego Waiver, please note it is being heard this next Monday, September 9, by the California Coastal Commission (CCC) in Los Angeles. Staff is recommending the CCC approve the federal consistency determination for the San Diego Waiver, reversing its April 2002 vote that denied the San Diego Waiver. After intense political pressure from the Governor's office, the CCC is now being forced to revisit this issue,

 

  

in order to approve the San Diego Waiver. Time to write a letter to the Coastal Commission, asking them to uphold their April vote and deny the San Diego Waiver, in the interests of clean ocean water for all of California, including San Diego, which seems to want a polluted ocean all for itself. Address is:

Chair Sara Wan, and
California Coastal Commission
45 Fremont Street, Suite 2000
San Francisco, CA 94105-2219

Re: Agenda Item No: M14a, cc-28-02, San Diego Waiver
Coastal Commission hearing September 9, 2002
Please oppose

Dear Chair Wan, and California Coastal Commission:

I am writing to ask that you deny the San Diego 301(h) waiver at the Coastal Commission hearing on September 9. Californians want and deserve a clean ocean, whether it is at San Francisco, Los Angeles, or San Diego. Why is San Diego allowed to pollute the ocean with a waiver, while the rest of the State is going to more advanced treatment of its sewage before it is released into the ocean? Even Orange County voted to get rid of the waiver just this past July.

Please do not permit San Diego to continue the 301(h) waiver. A waiver is not consistent with the efforts to eliminate ocean pollution, nor with the goals of the Coastal Act, which envisions water quality continuing to improve.

The San Diego Waiver is a step backward. Please vote to deny.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Name
Address

See CCC agenda at:

California Coastal Commission September 2002 Meeting Agenda

See San Diego Waiver Staff Report: San Diego Waiver Staff Report

Please write today. Send it by fax, no email available, Fax number 415-904-5400.

Thank you.

Jan Vandersloot (949) 548-6326

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