Thank You Ocean Report

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Polluted Water Bodies of California

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Outfall The California Coastkeeper Alliance coordinates, supports and enhances the work of local California Waterkeepers in order to ensure that Californians enjoy clean water and a healthy coast. In this Thank You Ocean report, CCKA Executive Director Linda Sheehan talks about the Alliance’s Severely Polluted Water Bodies of California Interactive Map which is available on their website. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Wilson)

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One Response to “Polluted Water Bodies of California”

Peter Maier Says:
July 21st, 2008 at 10:43 am
All these reports are impressive, but as long as EPA and others do not consider nitrogenous waste (urine and protein) pollution, we will never implement the Clean Water Act, as it was intended. This waste not only, like fecal waste, exerts an oxygen demand, but also is a fertilizer for algae and aquatic plant growth, causing eutrophication and eventually dead zones.

The reason EPA ignored this pollution is caused by a worldwide incorrect applied pollution test that EPA used to base its NPDES discharge permits on.

Although EPA in 1984 acknowledged this incorrect use, in stead of correcting the test, it allowed an alternative test and now officially ignored this type of pollution and by doing so lowered the goal of the CWA from 100% treatment to a measly 35% treatment, without notifying Congress.

Other problems caused by this incorrect applied test are that we do not know the real performance of a sewage treatment plants and have no idea what the effluent waste loading is on receiving water bodies, besides the possibility that such plants are designed to treat the wrong waste in sewage.

Want to know more visit http://www.petermaier.net and read the description of this test (BOD) in the Technical PDF section.