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Scuba Forum / General / June 2007Reef Rescue needs more letters...
Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) wants more comments on the Lake Worth proposal to pump nutrient-laden wastewater into a coral reef ecosystem. At a public meeting held Monday, paid consultants for the City of Lake Worth tried to convince a standing room only crowd that a little bit more pollution dumped on an already stressed coral reef would not hurt anything. They argued the Palm Beach County coastline already receives about 15 tons of wastewater discharge a day, which combined with the effects of pollution and global warming already causes considerable stress on the coral reefs. They say the Lake Worth discharge would be incidental. However, Reef Rescue and the environmental coalition presented internationally recognized experts in ocean sciences to refute the assessment. Dr. Thomas Goreau, the Harvard-educated president of the nonprofit Global Coral Reef Alliance, and Dr. Mike Risk, professor of environmental sciences at McMasters University in Canada, vehemently argued that there is no such thing as -a safe level- of ocean contaminants. A scientist from Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute presented data showing the reef was already dangerously close to the tipping point. At a time when the reefs of Florida are all but dead from nutrient overloads, FDEP is ready to issue a permit to dump just a little bit more poison on our reefs. FDEP wastewater permit writer Tim Powell asked for more public comment. He wants to hear from you. He requested your personal emails be sent directly to him and not from the Reef Rescue preformatted email sender. You can send your personal comment to Tim Powell at: Tim.Powell@dep.state.fl.us Learn more about the issues at: http://www.reef-rescue.org/LakeWorthOutfall_01.shtml http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2007/06/19/s1b_ lwcoral_0619.html Please distribute this email widely, post to other diving lists, foward it to anyone on your mailing list who may care about saving the imperiled reef system of Florida. Got my copy today, will put pen to paper this afternoon. (top posted on purpose) > Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) wants more > comments on the Lake Worth proposal to pump nutrient-laden wastewater [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > http://www.reef-rescue.org/LakeWorthOutfall_01.shtml http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2007/06/19/s1b_ lwcoral_0619.html > Please distribute this email widely, post to other diving lists, foward > it to anyone on your mailing list who may care about saving the > imperiled reef system of Florida. > Got my copy today, will put pen to paper this afternoon. > > FDEP wastewater permit writer Tim Powell asked for more public comment. > > He wants to hear from you. He requested your personal emails be sent > > directly to him and not from the Reef Rescue preformatted email sender. Why do you put pen to paper to write an e-mail? That's pretty backward even for you. (Bottom posted on purpose, since that's simply good netiquette) >>Got my copy today, will put pen to paper this afternoon. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > backward even for you. (Bottom posted on purpose, since that's simply > good netiquette) So did YOU put keyboard to email????? > >>Got my copy today, will put pen to paper this afternoon. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > So did YOU put keyboard to email?????- He's trying to figger out where to put the stamp? JF > So did YOU put keyboard to email????? One must assume he cant afford spit or a stamp, what with hiring all those wetbacks... > >>Got my copy today, will put pen to paper this afternoon. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > So did YOU put keyboard to email?????- Hell no. I'm too busy playing with my new housing. > So did YOU put keyboard to email????? I did. You should receive a blind copy. >>So did YOU put keyboard to email????? > > I did. You should receive a blind copy. Thank you, sir. You are a gentleman and a scholar. > >>So did YOU put keyboard to email????? > > I did. You should receive a blind copy. > Thank you, sir. You are a gentleman and a scholar. Are you getting any of the e-mails I am copying to you? Ping me so I have an accurate address to use. f.cker. >You can send your personal comment to Tim Powell at: >Tim.Powell@dep.state.fl.us Done for me. ____________________________________________ Regards, Arnold >>You can send your personal comment to Tim Powell at: >>Tim.Powell@dep.state.fl.us [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >Arnold I'm not really a nit wit, more like a half wit I remember I was supposed to send email to these clowns, but I forget why, and deleted the thread. ESG please repeate your request, and I promise to not come to Florida this year. >>Arnold > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > ESG please repeate your request, and I promise to not come to Florida > this year. OK - this is a repeat of the original post. Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) wants more comments on the Lake Worth proposal to pump nutrient-laden wastewater into a coral reef ecosystem. At a public meeting held Monday, paid consultants for the City of Lake Worth tried to convince a standing room only crowd that a little bit more pollution dumped on an already stressed coral reef would not hurt anything. They argued the Palm Beach County coastline already receives about 15 tons of wastewater discharge a day, which combined with the effects of pollution and global warming already causes considerable stress on the coral reefs. They say the Lake Worth discharge would be incidental. However, Reef Rescue and the environmental coalition presented internationally recognized experts in ocean sciences to refute the assessment. Dr. Thomas Goreau, the Harvard-educated president of the nonprofit Global Coral Reef Alliance, and Dr. Mike Risk, professor of environmental sciences at McMasters University in Canada, vehemently argued that there is no such thing as -a safe level- of ocean contaminants. A scientist from Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute presented data showing the reef was already dangerously close to the tipping point. At a time when the reefs of Florida are all but dead from nutrient overloads, FDEP is ready to issue a permit to dump just a little bit more poison on our reefs. FDEP wastewater permit writer Tim Powell asked for more public comment. He wants to hear from you. He requested your personal emails be sent directly to him and not from the Reef Rescue preformatted email sender. You can send your personal comment to Tim Powell at: Tim.Powell@dep.state.fl.us Learn more about the issues at: http://www.reef-rescue.org/LakeWorthOutfall_01.shtml http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2007/06/19/s1b_ lwcoral_0619.html Please distribute this email widely, post to other diving lists, foward it to anyone on your mailing list who may care about saving the imperiled reef system of Florida. |
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