Posted on 10/12/2020 9:30:05 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Agency Gives Utilities a Break, Reclassifies ‘Cooling Ponds’ as ‘Waste Treatment Systems’
Alice Fleming Guzick and her husband, Bill, have been living at their lake house on Lake Keowee in South Carolina since the coronavirus pandemic started. She likes to paddleboard and kayak there.
Trump and Radical Republicans stripped environmental protections from lakes such as the one Guzick lives on when the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers repealed former President Barack Obama’s Clean Water Rule and replaced it. Environmentalists say the change removes lakes such as Lake Keowee from being protected under the landmark Clean Water Act, which could lead to industries dumping pollutants in them.
“If the lake were polluted, I would not feel safe being in the waters of Lake Keowee,” said Guzick, a master gardener and member of the National Wildlife Federation.
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Define “polluted”.
Could lead. Did not say Would lead. The Earth could be partly destroyed by a meteor. It has happened before. No signs of it happening any time soon.
The Clean Water Act defines “heat” as a pollutant. These are cooling ponds? Nuff said?
“Lake Keowee is a man-made reservoir in the United States in the state of South Carolina. It was created to serve the needs of a power utility (Duke Energy)”
from wikipedia-
It’s a big freeeeekin’ retention pond!
Any concerns about the cooling ponds most likely can be abated and mitigated satisfactorily without Obama’s more restrictive rule.
Conservative conservation and pollution rules have to balance interests and achieve goals, with goals that include abatement and mitigation efforts and not just blanket restrictions against things just because of “possible” but not certain conditions.
..polluting the retention pond with their raw sewage?
Thermal pollution can be alleviated by cooling towers, staggered levies, air to water heat exchangers , and other devices. If the sunlight is aggravating the situation then . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxPdPpi5W4o
San Francisco washes raw sewage out to their bay and no one seems to care. Hard to feel sympathetic these days.
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