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Cyndi Karp via selfsupplied
Dec 21, 2018, 7:28:06 PM12/21/18
to ODEQ Andrea Bean Water Quality Permits, ODEQ Pat Heins Bio-Solids, #Conrad Gowell Native Fish Society, OR Central Coast Estuary Collaborative Debbie Pickering, .Surfrider Charlie Plybon Policy Director, OR Gov Kate Brown Natural Resources Policy Manager Jason Miner, #Stan Van de Wetering Siletz Tribe, NOAA OMAO Social Media Newport OR, Alsea WatershedCouncil, #Laura Brophy, ODEQ North Coast Regional Solution Team Jennifer Purcell, ODA Director Alexis Taylor, #David Allen, ODEQ Information Public Record, #OR Sen. Arnie Roblan, OR Sen. President Peter Courtney, NOAA Dr. Cisco Werner Director Chief Science, #Biological Diversity Kieran Suckling, Exec Director, OR Envir Health Assessment Program, #Mark Saelens, #Salene Save Our Siletz River, Oregon Wild Jason Gonzales, ODFW John Spangler Dist. Fish Biologist, #MCWPP Instream & Ecology, Oregon Indian Tribes Maureen Hess, ODEQ Nina DeConcini NW Region Adm., OR Health Authority Director, #Lincoln County Comm. Claire Hall, OR House Judiciary Committee, #Onno Husing Lincoln Co Planning, #MCWPP via selfsupplied, #OR Rep. David Gomberg, OR Rep. House Speaker Tina Kotek, ODFW Doug Cottam, #Beyond Toxics Lisa Arkin Exec Dir., #MidCoast Watersheds Council Evan Hayduk
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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