June 22, 2015

I think we all can agree that drinking untreated stormwater runoff will not help this young girls body and brain work better like it would if it were coming from an American water faucet. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) of permits became federal law in 1972 in the United States of America with the specific purpose to remove pollutants from our surface waters so we could have the quality of life that Americans demanded!  At the time, American's KNEW we needed to do something about our polluted waters and they supported enforcement of the laws that eventually cleaned up a bunch of our surface waters! The result of the NPDES and Safe Drinking Water Act compliance and enforcement is that we have cleaner water today than 40 years ago, even while America has more than doubled in population!

Today however, very few American's have heard of NPDES or know what it means, let alone how much they owe their very lives to it. At the end of the day, it's critical that we continue spreading the word about America's clean water, and the system that must be complied with and properly enforced if we are to continue growing as a healthy society! 

 

Georgia Supreme Court: Buffer Rule Doesn't Apply to Wetlands & Marshes

 

 

In a 6-1 decision, the justices found the 25-foot buffer required by the Erosion and Sedimentation Act can only be enforced along the banks of state waters edged by "wrested vegetation," where the force of flowing water has torn away the vegetation and there is a clear demarcation between water and vegetation.

The case arose from a plan to create a 960-acre fishing lake in Grady County by building a dam that would flood various creeks and wetlands. Environmental groups challenged a variance for the project issued by the state on the basis the application failed to address its impact on nearby wetlands.

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