Comments on: State DEP Increases Century’s Wastewater Discharge Permit

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 07:16:48 +0000

DEP is very stringent on Wastewater effluent discharge parameters, ensuring it is safe to go back into the environment. It is good that Mayor McCall was able to navigate the red tape even through a chance meeting to get this approved and also saved money as a bonus to make way for the future of the town. good news

By: Not that bad

Not that bad — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 00:28:27 +0000

Wastewater treatment plants and their disposal locations are called point-source discharges. As long as the operations are removing solids, nutrients, etc., chlorinating, and allowing water to restablish microbial life at discharge, nutrient loading should be a minor problem with increased discharge.

Of MUCH greater concern would be non-point discharges. Better known as stormwater. Any parking lots of older design lacking retention basins, along with streets and roadways, and sediment from erosion where vegetation has been cleared and not restored, are of greater concern.

More oil, nutrients, and other pollutants enter the nation’s fresh and marine water bodies through stormwater/non-point pollution than from permitted point-source discharges. If the public is concerned with the Escambia River’s well-being, non-point pollution is where the concern should be.

By: Alabama Resident

Alabama Resident — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:23:37 +0000

Yes, Florida Laws are a lot more complexed than some of Alabama’s but I can assure you as an employee of a municipality in ALABAMA, we also, by law treat our wastewater through a very complex monitoring system and supervised by a Certified Wastewater Operator before being discharged into any water way. The employees of the municipalities are mostly residents too and want to know what they are discharging is safe for their families as well as yours. When you have a few or several minutes, try visiting your local wastewater treatment facility and meet the people who take charge of your waste and thank them for the job well done, that not only protects you and your family but your community which can then increase jobs and hopefully higher pay wages.

By: hard to believe

hard to believe — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:58:18 +0000

treated wastewater is full of nutrient pollutants that cause algal blooms that kill lakes, rivers and springs. look up cyanobacteria. Modern communities build reuse facilties.

By: Resident

Resident — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:30:54 +0000

This is *TREATED* wasterwater people like the story says. it’s not raw sewage.

A half million gallons of treated water per day has to go somewhere? Where would you put it beside the river? EVERY CITY in Florida has to dump their *treated* wastewater somewhere….a lake, river, stream or bay. Pensacola’s goes into Pensacola Bay or is used at International Paper and then dumped in Perdido Bay.

It has to go somewhere and meets all the requirements of “cleaN”. It’s probably cleaner than what Alabama puts into the river.

By: Fisher Mann

Fisher Mann — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:30:33 +0000

“We welcome new industry to Century. Come here and you can pollute our river with sewage as much as you want.” Complete ignorance.

By: DownRiver

DownRiver — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:10:33 +0000

Century should be looking for other ways to dispose of waste water!! dumping it into the river is just wrong!!

By: jeeperman

jeeperman — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:03:56 +0000

Florida Department of Environmental Secretary Herschel Vinyard should make this a change in state policy.
But no, we all know the state will hold other municipalities hostage and try to force them to do duplicate testing.

How is that logjam clearing job going on the Escambia River?

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 13:02:45 +0000

Of course, if you don’t dispose of your treated waste water, you still have to do something with it. You could redrink it but if any equipment broke down, youwould be doing Isaiah 36:12 and that is unsanitary. Even if you sprayed it on fields, ultimately it will wind up in the water ways and ground water.
(All water we drink has already passed through countless kidneys)

By: hard to believe

hard to believe — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 12:59:37 +0000

What’s wrong with this picture. Town is happy it gets to dump an added 225,000 gallons of wastewater into the river a day. From the town’s web page ” Century is bordered by the Escambia River with boating, fishing and camping, and is home to 130 beautiful acres of fresh water known as Lake Stone, a fisherman’s paradise” I guess they just don’t get it.