Nitrogenous (urine and protein) waste in sewage is not required to be treated, while this waste, just like fecal waste, exerts an oxygen demand and in all its forms is a fertilizer for algae causes eutrophication and attracts Asian carp, while often resulting in dead zones.
EPA failed to implement the CWA because it used an essential pollution test incorrectly and while this test indeed is incorrectly used worldwide, it should not be an excuse for EPA to keep using this test incorrectly and claiming that correcting this test is impossible as it would require a re-education and re-tooling of an entire industry, while also acknowledging that much better sewage treatment is possible at much lower cost.

There is nothing wrong with the CWA itself and its goals can be mostly achieved, provided EPA implement the Act as intended and promised to the American Public. (www.petermaier.net)

Why is nobody holding the EPA accountable and keeps playing its games of initiating other programs clearly intended to implement the CWA through the back door? As long as this essential test is not corrected, such program failed in the past and will fail in the future.

There have been Asian Carp on the Great Lakes for close to 15 years in Lake Erie. They have not destroyed the ecosystem of Lake Erie. Could the DNA be from them?

I also take umbrage with the “study” that disputes the monetary impact a closure of the lock system would have on Chicago and the surrounding areas. We need to look beyond the marine transport industry to the other industries impacted by a move as drastic and knee jerk as this.

For instance, the entire tourism industry in Chicago would take a devastating hit. When you add in the impact to the tour boat industry, the employee job losses, the loss of tax revenue, the vendor business lost, the income tax from lost payroll… and that is just from the marine tour industry. People come from all over the world to see our magnificent architecture from the water.

The science that these reactions are based on is shaky, too. One may notice that all the “scientific research” has been conducted from the Michigan side. There is no independent, non partisan, non-conflicted evidence. Facts can be manipulated to say what people want. Obviously, look what happened in the financial sector.

But, I digress…. Before actions with such dire consequences for so many people are recklessly enacted. Let’s take some time and get some independent research done and hold off an destroying so many companies and so many jobs in such a shaky economy.