Comments on: Pollution Down, Health Up In Marine Ecosystems http://deepgreenconversation.org/pollution-down-health-up-in-marine-ecosystems/ Sun, 16 May 2010 05:35:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Peter Maier http://deepgreenconversation.org/pollution-down-health-up-in-marine-ecosystems/comment-page-1/#comment-209 Peter Maier Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:49:37 +0000 http://deepgreenconversation.org/pollution-down-health-up-in-marine-ecosystems/#comment-209 It seems to me logical that PCB and DDT concentrations are lower since they can not be used any longer. But what about the dead zones, due to eutrophication? This is partly caused by the fact that EPA never implemented the CWA as it was intended and promised to the American public, since EPA does not consider nitrogenous waste (urine and protein) causing pollution. 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 www.petermaier.net and read the description of this test (BOD) in the Technical PDF section. It seems to me logical that PCB and DDT concentrations are lower since they can not be used any longer. But what about the dead zones, due to eutrophication?

This is partly caused by the fact that EPA never implemented the CWA as it was intended and promised to the American public, since EPA does not consider nitrogenous waste (urine and protein) causing pollution. 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.

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