Good afternoon. 1) The public assumes your regulations are based in science, not supposition.[1] 2) I believe regulations must be a last resort and fashioned using facts, not fables.[2] a) Erin Brockovich is a Hollywood movie, a fable, not a factual documentary. [3] i) Masry & Vittitoe’s law clerk, Erin Brockovich sued the sockets offContinue reading “What I told California’s Water Resources Control Board at their Chromium 6 Hearing”
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California Wants to Ban ‘Decorative Grass Watering in commercial, industrial, and institutional areas’
Yes, the State Water Resources Control Board has “proposed emergency adoption of section 996, subdivision (b), prohibits the irrigation, with potable water, of non-functional turf in the commercial, industrial, and institutional sectors statewide…” I, of course, thinks this is a gloriously dumb idea and told them so. Here is my letter to them. May 21,Continue reading “California Wants to Ban ‘Decorative Grass Watering in commercial, industrial, and institutional areas’”
Comment letter to California State Water Resources Control Board about its Hexavalent Chromium Workshop
Jeanine TownsendClerk to the BoardState Water Resources Control BoardPO Box 100Sacramento, CA 95812-0100 Re: Comment Letter – Hexavalent Chromium Workshop Dear Ms. Townsend: As a contract water treatment operator for Crescent Bay Improvement Company, I submit the following brief comments and response to the White Paper On Economic Feasibility Analysis In Consideration of a HexavalentContinue reading “Comment letter to California State Water Resources Control Board about its Hexavalent Chromium Workshop”
Once again into the Erin Brockovich breech, dear friends
American journalist, essayist, satirist, and cultural critic, Henry Louis Mencken noted in his In Defense Of Women “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” HL Mencken In Defense Of Women Mencken wasContinue reading “Once again into the Erin Brockovich breech, dear friends”
When California’s Water Resources Control Board Scratches an Itch, Small Public Water Systems Need Stitches
Stupid nonsense dressed up to look like complicated science is still just stupid nonsense.
20 Qs to the SWRCB About Proposed Regs
California ‘s State Water Resources Control Board holds ‘workshops’ to give the public a chance to comment on proposed regulations. I have questions. In February 2020, California’s State Water Resources Control Board issued a ‘white paper’ titled: Economic Feasibility Analysis In Consideration Of A Hexavalent Chromium MCL In its introduction, the Water Board states: OnContinue reading “20 Qs to the SWRCB About Proposed Regs”
Science Evolves & Hello 2021
What a year, huh? Everything about 2020 seemed bad. As the prologue to Dave Barry’s year in review, says: This was a year of nonstop awfulness, a year when we kept saying it couldn’t possibly get worse, and it always did. This was a year in which our only moments of genuine, unadulterated happiness wereContinue reading “Science Evolves & Hello 2021”
Open Letter to California’s Water Board Regarding Perchlorate
Division of Drinking Water Attn: Jeanine Townsend, Clerk to the Board State Water Resources Control Board P.O. Box 100 Sacramento, CA 95812-2000 Re: Comment Letter – SBDDW-20-001: Perchlorate DLR It’s clear the California State Water Resources Control Board cares very much about providing the cleanest drinking water to the most vulnerable consumers, children. Yet theContinue reading “Open Letter to California’s Water Board Regarding Perchlorate”
California’s State Water Board is gnawing on the perchlorate bone, again.
Chemaphobia thrives at California’s State Water Board. The State Water Resources Control Board is accepting written public comments on proposed changes to the draft Perchlorate Detection Limit for Purposes of Reporting (DLR). The public comment period ends on 7 August 2020, at 12:00 p.m. (noon). The Notice of Public Availability of Changes, proposed regulationContinue reading “California’s State Water Board is gnawing on the perchlorate bone, again.”
Bloomingcamp Ranch vs California’s Water Board
I did more research. More contemplation. I reworked the letter to be less confrontational. More flies with honey than vinegar and all that… By the way should you wish to comment… SUBMISSION OF WRITTEN COMMENTS. Persons interested in the draft order are encouraged to submit comments electronically. Comment letters must be received by 12:00 noonContinue reading “Bloomingcamp Ranch vs California’s Water Board”
Nullius in Verba 