About Town — 11.8.23
Employees vie for title of best chili chef in town
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Employees vie for title of best chili chef in town
The Hawai‘i Department of Health is seeking public comment on a proposed Clean Water Act permit for the County of Maui’s Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation Facility. This is the first time a permit is being proposed for a wastewater treatment facility that discharges to the ocean via groundwater.
The Federal Clean Water Act and EPA's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System regulations implementing the Act prohibit the discharge of pollutants. All one needs to prevail in a PFAS Clean Water Act Citizen Suit is wastewater containing a detectable concentration of PFAS.
A proposed agreement designed to force EPA to provide more oversight over animal feeding operations and discharge permits in Pennsylvania could signal a willingness on the part of the agency to look more closely at using its Clean Water Act authority to reduce nutrient pollution in watersheds nationwide.
Backwards, forwards, square and round. So goes a lyric by the late great Jeff Beck who died this week. Mr. Beck wasn't writing about the decades long war...