Environmental Press # 216

Subj: OOG: TAC Meeting Tomorrow, Thursday, 9:30 AM at OCSD
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 1:48:29 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Jon V3
To: Jon V3
Dear OOG:

Tomorrow, Thursday, April 3, 9:30 AM is the meeting of the TAC (Technical Advisory Committee) at OCSD, 10844 Ellis Ave.corner Ellis and Euclid, Euclid exit off 405 Freeway, Fountain Valley. Below is a recent message from Ken Theisen of the RWQCB:

"Just a reminder to clarify some confusion. I couldn't do the meeting on March 26 so it is rescheduled for April 3, at OCSD at 9:30. The OCSD investigators will not be able to present as their presentation to OCSD's board got pushed back to April, and they don't want to talk to us before they give the Board their presentation. No big deal, as I think we all know what the conclusion was; "It is not the plume." Charlie McGee will be at the meeting presenting some of OCSD's recent offshore monitoring data. They found high entero in Newport Canyon again. Which is real interesting when one considers the current levels in the OCSD discharge.

I also can't afford to buy you all lunch like OCSD did in the past, so we will be breaking for lunch, unless we finish early.

 

  

See you on April 3 at OCSD.

Ken Theisen
Staff Environmental Scientist
California Regional Water Quality Control Board
Santa Ana Region
3737 Main Street, Suite 500
Riverside, CA 92501
Tel: (909) 320-2028
Fax: (909) 781-6288
Email: ktheisen@rb8.swrcb.ca.gov"

I wonder if they are considering the impacts of having all that only partially secondary treated sewage building up on the ocean floor and Newport Canyon over the years. Remember the slide in the OOG Power Point Presentation that said:

•Human gut bacteria resistant to antibiotics were obtained from sewage sites more than 40 miles offshore from New York City, 30 months after dumping site was closed (Goyal)

We may have to deal with the bacteria in all that sewage on the ocean floor for years to come.

Jan Vandersloot (949) 548-6326

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