According to the EPA ECHO website, our City of St. Augustine, Florida is again out of compliance with environmental laws. The website shows that for the July to September 2008, our City was guilty of a significant noncompliance involving failure to report required data to the EPA during July-September 2008. The information is in red, bold, large print denoting "Significant Non-compliance (SNC) effluent violations."
The National Response Center has assumed jurisdiction of complaint number 893673, which was filed earlier this afternoon.
Why was this nonreporting not the object of any consent order language in the WWTP consent order rubber-stamped by our ineffectual Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP or "DON'T EXPECT PROTECTION" as my friend David Thundershield Queen calls it)? Perhaps all federal funds should be cutoff from FDEP and the City of St. Augustine for violation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Calling the National Response Center results in public records being created, which makes it difficult to claim "plausible deniability." Call 800-424-8802 24/7
Our racist, incompetent City government is busy, busy, busy, polluting and covering up. Even after being fined (twice) by the State of FLorida for illegal dumping of 40,000 cubic yards of solid waste into the Old City Reservoir and illegally dumping treated sewage effluent into our saltwater marsh, our City of St. Augustine has done it again.
As you read these words, so do others throughout our City, State, Nation and Planet. The whole world is watching Environmental Racism in St. Augustine, FLorida.
Perhaps under a new President and new Attorney General, the FBI and U.S. Attorney will investigate environmental pollution and institutinoal racism in St. Augustine.
As Yogi Berra would say, this is "deja vu, all over again." Call 800-424-8802 24/7 whenever you see pollution or environmental violations.
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