FLORIDA WAIVES WATER POLLUTION REPORTING RULES

[donsu]

http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=819


FLORIDA WAIVES WATER POLLUTION REPORTING RULES — Industry Told Not to Bother Submitting Data Qualifiers on Pollution Reports


The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) tells industrial water polluters not to submit detailed reports needed to ascertain permit compliance, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The waiver of this reporting requirement stands in sharp contrast to its proposed punishment of a DEP laboratory manager for supposedly not submitting sufficient quantities of these same technical descriptions of data limitations called “Data Qualifiers.”

Tom Frick, the Environmental Manager of the DEP Bureau of Laboratories, told his agency’s Inspector General during an October 31, 2006 interview that he had ordered state laboratories to stop accepting Data Qualifiers in receiving “reporting data on DMR ” used for both safe drinking and industrial waste water programs.

Ironically, DEP is threatening to fire Tom White, the manager of the agency’s Port St. Lucie laboratory, for his allegedly low usage of Data Qualifiers, which the agency decided are not at all necessary for industry submissions of pollution data. Frick made his admission during an investigative interview with White.

Significantly, the industry submissions are used for enforcement and regulatory purposes, while the laboratory data prepared by White was for planning and classification. Since they are admissible in court and may be the basis for sanctions, if anything, industry submissions should be more rigorous, not less so.
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two things:

they don't want tourists to know they are swimming in ocean water polluted with sewage

boaters know that up by Port St. Lucie there is a canal to avoid as the water is so polluted it will eat away your bottom paint.

[sakabatou]

1. If it's weird, it's gotta be Fla.

or Germany.

[flyarm]

2. and is there any wonder why we had such bad red tide last year?????

and floridians keep voting in rethuglicans...

makes one wonder...............not...

fly

[donsu]

4. read a report a couple of wks. ago that said red tide was already back

in the northern gulf

[porphyrian]

3. Fucking republicons. - n/t