According to the Maui News, the Maui County Council unanimously approved a settlement with the EPA over the Lahaina wastewater injection wells. This could end of a longstanding dispute between the county and the Environmental Protection Agency. For years, the EPA has maintained that the county poured poorly treated water into the aquifer, and eventually the ocean, through injection wells at the Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation Facility.
At issue is the alleged inadequate amount of sanitization that the county uses at the Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation Facility.
While the EPA has put a tremendous amount of pressure on the county – even threatening to revoke permits that could close the Lahaina sewage treatment plant – it hasn’t filed a formal complaint, yet.
The Maui County Environmental Management Department still claims that its treatment is acceptable even as the EPA threatens to pull the County’s injection well permit. The Council was tole it will cost $4 million to $5 million to upgrade the treatment plant to meet EPA standards.
The agreement provides for $1000/day fines if the injection well water is not adequately disinfected.
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Joel says:
07/30/2011 at 12:37 pmAs soon as chemtrails cease or are explained and justified, and as soon as daily radiation readings from the Kahului monitoring station are easily available to the public, and as soon as genetically-engineered food products are clearly labeled and the public has access to a testing station for suspected GMOs, then I’ll chip in to the $5 million required to upgrade the wastewater treatment plant. “Standards”!?
Karen Chun says:
08/01/2011 at 11:46 amI have serious doubts about this chemtrail conspiracy theory — not that I think the government isn’t capable of something like this or that they wouldn’t lie to us about it.
When people start talking “chemtrails”, most people react by ignoring everything else they have to say.
Your other comments have validity but the chemtrail comment is going to make everyone quit listening before they get to them.