How far will the EPA go for the public good?
We are having the EPA coming to our lake this year to do studies.
How far will they go ? What mandates will be put forward?
This is getting scary!
From Countertop Chronicles Link
Last week, EPA charged four feedlots in Iowa with illegal discharges of agricultural wastewater.
Owner Alan Zellmer told Brownfield Friday the EPA accusation came as a "total shock," and that the EPA had no evidence he had actually polluted. "They have no physical evidence whatsoever, "Zellmer said. "The allegation comes from a model that they have in Kansas City, and they ran our average rainfall through a model, and it says that I discharged, but they have no physical evidence whatsoever."Brownfield spoke with officials at EPA's Region 7 headquarters in Kansas City Friday. Regional Administrator John Askew confirmed that in Zellmer's case, the accusation that Zellmer is a polluter is, indeed, based on an engineering model. Askew also confirmed the EPA doesn't actually know if a discharge has actually occurred."There is a high probability that there has been discharges, so, yes, we are using a model," Askew said.But EPA attorney Dan Breedlove told Brownfield the model is accurate. "Just because there hasn't been a fishkill reported doesn't mean that there hasn't been impairment to the waterways," Breedlove asserted.
From Brownfield network Link
EPA targets western Iowa feedlot ownersMonday,
January 29, 2007, 4:30 PMby Peter Shinn
Audio related to this story AUDIO: Peter Shinn reports
(1 1/2 min MP3)Last Thursday, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) charged four feedlots in western
Iowa with violating the Clean Water Act. One of those
operations is A to Z Feeders in Atlantic, Iowa. Owner Alan
Zellmer told Brownfield Friday the EPA accusation came as a
"total shock," and that the EPA had no evidence he had actually
polluted. "They have no physical evidence whatsoever, "Zellmer
said. "The allegation comes from a model that they have in Kansas
City, and they ran our average rainfall through a model, and it says
that I discharged, but they have no physical evidence whatsoever."
If the E P A finds something on our lake when they do our study
can the Fine, confiscate, arrest?
We at Berry Lake will find out!
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