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SACKETTS V. US EPA
Putting a Face on How Best to Live as Americans & Protect our Water
 The couple just wanted to build a picturesque home on the banks of a beautiful lake. Instead, the EPA has accused them of building on a wetland. Now the Supreme Court will hear their case.
When Mike and Chantell Sackett paid $23,000 for a lot near the banks of Priest Lake in 2005, they thought they were buying the site for a picturesque new home. They got a lot more: a long feud with the USEPA and now a Supreme Court case that could bolster the rights of landowners facing costly demands from the federal government.
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CONSTRUCTION & WATER QUALITY ....American's working together for a BETTER TOMORROW!"
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REPAIRING A RIVER From The Inside Out
At first glance, this stretch of the River looks like machinery-assisted chaos at best and destruction of an ecosystem at worst. A huge excavator is alternating between tearing out chunks of the riverbank and digging out heaps of muddy riverbottom. A nearby bulldozer is driving through the middle of the shallow river, appearing to push giant logs toward one side.
But there is a method to this madness! The point is to create a sort of new riverbank, made of the same ingredients as a natural one - mostly wood, sand, mud and rocks - but reconstituted in a much more stable way.
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New Planning Approach to
Improve Water Quality in U.S. Cities
HOW DOES A CITY DEAL WITH the expense of aging water and sewer systems not designed to handle heavy rain and snowfall in addition to handling the wastewater from growing populations and local industries. Municipal employees have to learn new practices through MS4 Training on how to address the ever growing stormwater discharges directed into our nations waterways. Systems often overflow, releasing untreated stormwater and sewage into waterways, onto city streets or into the basements of homes. As the runoff flows over the land or impervious surfaces, including paved streets, parking lots, and building rooftops, it accumulates debris, chemicals, sediment and other pollutants.
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FOR MS4 OPERATORS.....
As MS4 Training providers we felt it was a good to share CBI with people who may be interested in an annual reporting software solution. CBI is a company owned by MS4 operators who use they system that they sell. They understand MS4s and their challenges. They have developed a customizable, state of the art software that can make annual reporting much simpler and easier!
You may wonder what is a Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4)? A MS4 is a conveyance or a system of conveyances that is owned by a state, city, town, village, military base, or other public entity (Universities) that discharges stormwater to waters of the United States. A MS4 collects or conveys stormwater (including storm drains, pipes, ditches, etc.). It's not a combined sewer system and is not part of a publically owned treatment works (POTW). MS4s must report annually to the State administering the MS4 permit or the US EPA. |
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SEDIMENT, EROSION AND TURBIDITY CONTROL WORKSHOPS THROUGH DECEMBER
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***CONGRATULATIONS***
ROBERT HILL for winning the 1/2 Day Guided Fishing Trip on Lake Laner! Stand by for pictures of a SUCCESSFUL FISHING TRIP!
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Under authority of the Water Quality Control Act (including Surface Water Allocation) :
| Facility: | Interstate Wastewater Services, Inc./LaGrange; order issued to Mr. Grady Harmon | | Location: | Troup County | | Order Number: | EPD-WQ-WCDO-11-002 | | Date of Issue: | October 25,2011 | | Cause of Order: | Violations of NPDES Permit/failure to monitor | | Requirement(s) of Order: | Correct immediately | | Settlement Amount: | $250.00 |
| Facility: | City of Sardis water pollution conntrol plant | | Location: | Burke County | | Order Number: | EPD-ECDO-11-004 | | Date of Issue: | October 17,2011 | | Cause of Order: | Spill to waters of the state/exceeded effluent limitations; failure to report or notify public | | Requirement(s) of Order: | Correct immediately | | Settlement Amount: | $1500.00 |
| Facility: | Poole's Mobile Manor /Ellenwood; order issued to Mr. Tom Long | | Location: | Henry County | | Order Number: | EPD-WQ-MDA-11-004 | | Date of Issue: | October 17,2011 | | Cause of Order: | Violations of Rules for Underground Storage Tank Management | | Requirement(s) of Order: | Correct immediately | | Settlement Amount: | $250.00 |
| Facility: | Robins Crest Apartment Homes/East Point; order issued to Robins Creste Housing Partners, LP | | Location: | Fulton County | | Order Number: | EPD-WQ-MDA-11-005 | | Date of Issue: | October 17,2011 | | Cause of Order: | Unpermitted discharge of raw sewage from Aapartment complex to waters of the state | | Requirement(s) of Order: | Correct immediatley | | Settlement Amount: | $2000.00 |
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GRIFFIN EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL WORKSHOP
 Almost 200 people attended Griffin's Annual Erosion and Sediment Control & Stormwater Seminar and Field Day to learn about the new regulations and E&SC technologies available. Private firms, federal, state and local regulators along with excellent stormwater vendors were in attendance. The regulated and regulator communities met together and gained common sense from each perspective. We discussed the importance of Developers/Builders & Environmental Regulators working together if any of this "stormwater, erosion & sediment control stuff" is going to really make a difference with our water quality. |
