[muniwaterdistrict] Fw: Inspector’s General Office review of EPA Biosolids Unregulated 11.15.2018

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Feb 19, 2019, 11:57:09 AM2/19/19
to Newport Andrew Grant WastewaterTreatment, OR Leg House Interim Ag~Nat. Resources, #MCWPP via selfsupplied, OHA Director Patrick Allen, Siletz Tribe Stan Van de Wetering, #MCWPP Muniwaterdistrict, Siletz City Council, OSU HMSC Director Robert Cowen, OR US Senator Ron Wyden, USDA Public Affairs June Turner Director, ODA Director Alexis Taylor, #OR Sen. Arnie Roblan, OR Sen. President Peter Courtney, OR Sen. (R) Leader Ted Ferrioli, ODFW Director Curt Melcher, #Biological Diversity Kieran Suckling, Exec Director, OR Envir Health Assessment Program, #Onno Husing Lincoln Co Planning, Oregon Wild Jason Gonzales, EPA Office Inspector's General, #.LC Kaety Jacobson, #Newport City Recorder Peggy Hawker, #MCWPP Instream & Ecology, OSU Ecology Stan Gregory, #Toledo City Council Betty Kamikawa, Oregon Shores/CoastWatch Phillip Johnson, #.LC Claire Hall, OR Attorney General Michael Kron Special Council Education, ODEQ Director Richard Whitman, #.KYAQ 91.7 FM Public Radio, OR Envir Public Health Tara Chetock, OR Sen. Floyd Prozanski Judiciary Comm., #OR Rep. David Gomberg, #MCWC Coho Business Plan Public Record, OR Water Resource Dept Integrated Water Resources Strategy, OR Rep. House Speaker Tina Kotek, #.Alan Fujishin MCWPP, OWRD Director, Tom Byler, OWEB Executive Director Meta Loftsgaarden, #.LC Comm. Doug Hunt, ODEQ Andrea Bean Water Quality Permits
Dear Andrew Grant, City Newport Oregon Waste Water Treatment Facilities Manager,
 
I wanted to make sure that you received a complete copy of the US EPA Office of Inspector’s General report of 11/15/2008, regarding EPA Biosolids Unregulated.  This document is one of the most current.  I am asking that you take your Public Oath very seriously to read this complete document.  Please try to understand the full implications as the full meaning of this document.  You are a sworn Public Servant & it is your duty to protect the Public.  You can not just ignore this very critical report on Biosolids with the consequences to the Community & Oregon’s Ecosystem.  There are over 350 Chemicals listed in this report that have been found in Biosolids, but are not being tested. 
 
Municipalities, Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality & Dept of Agriculture can not just continue to ignore the dangers of Biosolids.  I have heard you testify more than once that Biosolids are Safe.  This US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector’s General Report is very clear Biosolids are a danger to our Communities.  The report provides a history of Biosolids lack of testing.  There is also a lack of testing for Pharmaceuticals in Biosolids & Water Exiting the Municipalities Waste Water Treatment Discharge into local Ecosystem.  Biosolids are not being tested for enough contaminates.  We need to find ways to Partnership with OSU to develop modern equipment to do real time testing for contaminates in the waste water system.  You were sitting a few chairs away at the ODEQ hearing, when a Chemical Scientist testified there are ways to test. 
 
What we need is Innovative Modernization of Testing Equipment at a reasonable cost.  Which can monitor 24/7 hours for Contaminates in Waste Water process.  City of Newport can not state that Biosolids are safe after reading the attached EPA-OIG report on Biosolids.  I am only way that I am going to believe you is if you can show me the actual testing for listed in test report as negative.  Just a handful of tests are being done.  Are you testing for Pharmaceuticals in the Biosolids, but also the Waste Water Effluent that enters the Ecosystem?  I know the answers are no.  How can you testify that Biosolids are Safe?  Do you know the penalty for misleading the Public?  I would guest that there is very likely some kind of consequences or at least there should be.  I do not blame you at all.  The EPA has long deceived a large percentage of the Public, which is pointed out in this EPA-OIG report. 
 
Are there answers to all of my questions?  Not very often, which in turn cause Scientific Research.  That is what happened with Micro-Plastics in Oysters & Fish.  Viagra in Sea Life.  Do you test for Household chemicals or products.  The current use of so many bad chemicals in laundry products.  Do you test the outgoing discharge waters for common contaminates?  There are many challenges to meet & understand.  Could Charcoal help solve some of the challenges?  Have you done any comprehensive contamination analyst on a waste water in the system?  How often?  There are Cities that are have difficulties with Meth Labs dumping leftover chemical into sewer drains.  So, they are tracking down the locations of the Meth Labs by monitoring the sewers looking for common Meth Lab chemicals.  Does Newport do any testing for Meth Lab Chemicals?  Most likely not, because there is no testing required.  The principals of this logic is if you don’t test for contaminates, then there are no contaminates present.  Federal Agencies has a mandated responsibility for complete transparency. So does Oregon, Lincoln County & the City of Newport.  How can you say Biosolids are Safe.  This is a false statement that you have been taught, without the proper scientific evidence to provide transparency to the Public, State & Local Governments.  There is a legal liability to the Public to protect from harm. 
 
The opportunity is knocking for the Oregon Central Coast to provide a new path to science & transparency through Local Partnerships, such as the Mid Coast Water Planning Partnership.  Only through Comprehensive Analyst & Testing can we protect our Communities & Ecosystem to have clean Water, Air, Soil & Oceans for all to enjoy.  Please take the time to honestly & open mindedly review what the EPA Office of Inspector Generals Audit & Report’s Principals. One of the best conservation efforts for water is to preserve the water quality.  Protection of the Water, Soil, Air & Ocean is a core principal that all of us need to help accomplish.  I appreciate your time & efforts to help our Communities.               
This is a link to an audio by EPA OIG on Biosolids speaking about this report.  https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-11/biosolids_podcast.mp3
 
Be working Together in Cooperation & Collaboration we can Accomplish our Common Goals of a Healthy Ecosystem with Clean Water, Air, Soil & Ocean.  Please join me in “Oregon Go Organic Green”.  Biosolids are Not Organic Safe.
 
Sincerely,
 
Cyndi Karp
POB 506
Waldport OR 97394
 
Oregon DEQ Andrea Bean,
 
Please include as Public Record this US Inspector’s General Office 11/15/2018 report of EPA Biosolids Unregulated. 
Attached as a complete document of 66 pages to be included as part of the applications for Biosolids spreading in Lincoln County.
 
Thank you,
 
Cyndi Karp
POB 506
Waldport, OR  97394
 
From: Cyndi Karp
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2018 4:27 PM
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Subject: Request to Extend Public Comment Period for 60 Days
 
Dear Oregon Dept of Environmental Quality,
 
Oregon DEQ BioSolids Permitting in Lincoln County Application Permits Extension of ODEQ Public Comment Period.  The current Public Comment on Biosolids deadline on 12/21/2018 at 5 pm is too short for proper public comments. Biosolid applicants have let their permits expire, some not valid for years.  The short comment period has not provided the Public with enough time to submit letters.  ODEQ audio hearing tape was not available until yesterday.  Considering this is a Very Controversial Community Issue of Public Safety and long standing lack by applicants to Avoid Soil Testing.  The ODEQ provided long public Comment Period for the Controversial Jordon Cove extended to Long Comment Period.  Due to ODEQ just posting the Official Audio version yesterday, I have not even been able to post this audio tape to Social Media before the deadline this afternoon. 
 
Such a short Public comment is completely Unfair to the Public’s ability to make proper Public Comment.  Six business days & One Day for post ODEQ Biosolids hearing is completely Unacceptable to the Public.  The hearing notice was provided and we had a good turn out for a Community Hearing less than two weeks from Christmas.  Considering the Public is very busy with Holiday activities, only six business days, one day for Biosolids Audio tape review, Controversial Community Drinking Water Issue, Lack to Time for Public Comment for Local & State Environmental NGO’s to go to their Boards to allow Public comments, other Government entities' like the Coho Business Plan Joint Committee, Oregon Central Coast Estuary Collaboration, further comments from the Siletz Confederate Indigenous Tribes, MidCoast Watersheds Council, Siletz Watershed Council, Salmon Drift Creek Watershed Council, Alsea Watershed Council, Mid Coast Water Planning Partnership, Save Our Siletz River, & the General Public have not had enough time to provide proper Public Comments.   I have a video to upload & send from the Siletz Watershed Council meeting December 18, 2018, I need to submit.  Mid Coast & Salmon Drift Creek Watersheds Councils meet yesterday, without time to ask their Board to make Public Comment.  This is true for all NGO’s without enough time to make Public Comment.  This is just the beginning of the list.  
 
Please reconsider & immediately extend the Public Comment period for 60 Days.  The Applicants have had years of non-compliance for their permits with complete lack of compliance for required Soil testing not provided.  Applicants are being allowed to push through as a pre-determined automatic acceptance of their Biosolid applications, without ODEQ allowing enough time to make Public Comment by all involved parties, including other Committees & Government processes to make Public Comments.  These Class B Biosolid are more Dangerous to the Public Drinking Water.  But, also to our Estuaries and Marine Life. 
 
We Demand a longer Comment Period of 60 to provide Public Comment.     
 
Thank you for your full consideration of these simple and important Community Public Comment Period on BioSolids applications.
 
Sincerely,
 
Cyndi Karp
POB 506
Waldport, OR  97394
    
 
 
    
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