Permits are a license to pollute.

Saturday, February 04, 2012

NPDES permits granted by a state authority to entities are basically a license to pollute and specify the ranges at which each pollutant is acceptable.  Over the past couple of weeks the Santee Riverkeeper Alliance has reviewed some of these permits and has found that many municipalities, corporations, water treatment companies, etc. have been chronic violators over the past many years.   If there weren't any penalties incurred by the offenders, that would explain the pervasiveness of the chronic violations.  From our analysis these permits are useless.  They are not enforced.  The pollution limits mean nothing to the authority that granted them.  Why waste time writing them?  The health of our rivers and streams might be a good reason.

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7 comments for “Permits are a license to pollute.”

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    Posted Friday, February 17, 2012 at 5:16:24 AM

    Highly appreciate the desire of the Santee Riverkeeper Alliances mission i to promote respect, protect and improve the Santee River, Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie. Hope they will achieve their goals

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    Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2012 at 8:33:01 AM

    This is a responsible decision to take the problem into one's own hands and resolve it carefully. I appreciate the intentions of Riverkeeper Alliance group and i sincerely wish they would do their best.

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