Messages to Mike Crapo, Mike Simpson, and Jim Risch
January 3, 2010
When the Clean Water Act was passed, the federal government used our taxes to build sewage treatment plants. In Salmon, that plant is now out of compliance and has been since 2001, according to the EPA Fact Sheet. We have no information that the facility ever was in compliance, from 1987 when it was built. EPA did not come to Salmon between 1987 and 2007.
Now the town is planning to double our wastewater tax to try to fix a facility that never did work.
The median income in Salmon is $26,823. EPA says they will fine us $32,000 per day if we don’t fix the facility.
Here we are with a wastewater plant that can’t be fixed and the EPA about to take an excessive amount from people who do not have the money.
The solution, according to EPA, is to build a constructed wetland, which is ½ to 1/8 the cost of the facility we have now and puts the water onto crops, after treatment, and not into the river.
How do we build a constructed wetland?
We put all the details at http://votingpeoplehelpingpeople.com/Jesse_Creek/Municipal%20Wastewater.html