Interesting opinion piece by Dr. Tufford yesterday. Dr. Tufford has studied phosphorous in rivers and has an interest in the Congaree. Because we are getting no posts here, we enclose a link to his piece so we can have something to discuss. He mentions the EPA and its opinions several times in his article. We have posted links on this site which discuss the issue of early measurement and the misconceptions of wetlands. We know we will be dealing with those issues and have addressed them with operators and designers. Are there other issues we don't know about? This is precisely the kind of feedback we want.
Opinions are changing as this technology advances and we want the freshest input. Back in 1999 the EPA said wetlands often are inappropriate for large urban areas "owing to their large land requirements," but that is clearly not relevant here, as it is not in Orlando and Augusta. In fact, for some reason, probably the many regulatory and cost changes in the intervening eight years, many urban areas such as Chicago, Seattle, Pittsburgh and others are looking at these same wetland systems for their wastewater.
We have placed relevant EPA links on this site from its inception. If you know of others, from the EPA or not, please send us the links. We have also posted links to many cites that have successfully used this process in varied geographic and climatic conditions. We are not finding links that say wetlands do not work. Dr. Tufford, if you know something we don't know, that is what this site is for. We think this idea works, but do not want to waste time if it doesn't.
Dr. Tufford also rightly mentions university research and review. We definitely want that, but without a project it was hard to know what to ask for. We agree that it is time to seek that affiliation. Dr. Tufford, are you volunteering?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment