In the U. Lehigh is required to have the treatment plant running at full scale by The Water Board is also requiring a groundwater investigation, and the plant is still operating under an investigative enforcement order. Environmentalists and neighbors living near the 3,acre plant are not completely satisfied with the settlements and penalties.
Kit Gordon, with Permanente Re-Imagined aka the Permanente Creek Alliance says the pollution and violations have gone on too long; she asks why enforcement actions are needed. Tired of air pollution, noise, and a layer of dust everywhere from plant emissions, neighbors want the plant gone.
But it seems unlikely that will happen. The cement plant continues to be in compliance with its water management permits.
We remain committed to minimizing our environmental footprint at the Permanente facility and throughout the company. Gordon says a lot has changed since the quarry opened, specifically the number of people living near the quarry and scientific understanding of health impacts from mercury, selenium, and other contaminants. Would a new facility like this be permitted to operate today? Probably not. Contact: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected].
It will also support a diversity of native plants, including several species that were once prevalent in the area but are now rare. By maintaining the hilly, upland areas as coastal grasslands, the project will provide room for the salt marsh to expand as sea level rises over the next few decades.
Invasive plants, including broom and ice plant, have spread widely over the island, greatly reducing habitat quality and use by a diversity of birds and small mammals.
The restoration project will eliminate the invasive plants and allow the return of native species along with the birds and other wildlife that depend on them.
Rehabilitate existing tidal marsh to improve habitat quality for birds and other wildlife, and to provide a refuge for native salt marsh plant species diversity and recovery of native, regionally rare marsh plants. Rehabilitate upland grassland habitats and establish gradual transition zones between upland and intertidal areas to support native plants and improve wildlife habitats for shorebirds, waterfowl, and special-status native plant species.
Reduce wave erosion and shoreline retreat by selective placement of bay sand and gravel beach sediments. Methods and results of assessment were peer reviewed and there is stakeholder consensus as well. There has been a downward trend in both copper and nickel concentrations and loading over the last two decades, and the implementation plan should help keep us going in that direction or give us warning should the situation start to get worse for whatever reason.
We will have a plan in place to address any changes for the worse as well. Stakeholder involvement Consensus reached on complex technical issues. Technical Peer Review Ensured that the science component was sound. Paved the way for consensus on the policy issues. Pretty much anyone involved in this project would affirm that it was a success and a model for how this sort of project should proceed. The money paid for good science, stakeholder involvement, and peer review of the science.
Here are the keys to success as I see it. Reduce production of methyl mercury. Perform monitoring and focused studies to: Assess progress toward targets Refine load estimates Evaluate appropriateness of targets Evaluate controllability of loads.
Encourage actions that address multiple contaminants Re-visit decisions on targets, allocations, and implementation actions every years So, here comes the TMDL IP to the rescue. We need to get better at controlling methylation and we really do not have the information right now to be able to do it so a priority for the adaptive portion of the TMDL moving forward is to figure this out.
Monitoring to see how we are doing in reaching targets and allocations Special studies to address uncertainties For this last bullet, many times, mercury contamination co-occurs with other sorts of contamination, say PCBs.
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