In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
EPA Sues City for Environmental Crimes --- Sound familiar?
Photo credit: J.D. Pleasant
The Justice Department and State of West Virginia just "sued the town of Fort Gay, W. Va. to stop discharges of untreated sewage from pipes, manholes, and pumping stations into Mill Creek." See press release, below.
Let the City of St. Augustine be sued next. And there will be no economic stimulus funds for a money-wasting and corrupt city government run by mediocrities who:
1. Put semi-treated sewage effluent in our saltwater marsh, telling no one but Commissioners (and thought it was cute and thought they'd get away with it); and
2. Put solid waste in our Old City Reservoir(and thought it was cute and thought they'd get away with it;
3. Put untreated sewage in Maria Sanchez Lake without proper door hanger notices;
4. Put untreated sewage in San Sebastian Lake without proper door hanger notices;
5. Put lives at risk with boil water advisories without proper door hanger notices.
Suing is too good for WILLIAM B . HARRISS -- he and our City Commissioners must be haled before a Grand Jury.
After hearing all the evidence, HARRISS and the City must be indicted as the Justice Department indicted the City of Venice, Florida for intentional sewage pollution and brought and won criminal charges against THOMPSON BROS. REALTY for intentionally molesting bald eagles at Fish Island.
Anything less suggests the law is a sham.
The EPA press release (belo0w) says sewage pollution threatens "life-threatening illnesses such as cholera, dysentery, infectious hepatitis and severe gastroenteritis. Children, the elderly, people with weakened immune systems and pregnant women are more at risk of illness."
To which WILLIAM B. HARRISS repiies, "What me worry?"
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