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More Misinformation from The
'Daily Disaster'
Dear Editor, The Review:
Editorial comments are opinion and everyone has one and is entitled to one but they are not entitled to their own facts. Editorial boards must deliver accurate information when sounding off atop their daily soapbox - accuracy being a core editorial value, or so one would think.
But a recent editorial by The
Saginaw News concerning legal action about the dredging project
on the Saginaw River could not be more wrong in their opening
editorial statement:
"In the latest twist to clear the
Saginaw River for shipping traffic, a pair of environmental groups
filed suit in Ingham County to block Saginaw County and the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers from building a dredging spoils disposal
site."
WHAT? Just not true. This suit was not filed as The Saginaw News stated to block the building of the dredge spoils site. This suit was filed to compel MDEQ to do their job and apply the law when permitting discharge of water from the dredge disposal site back into the river. The End.
We would have filed this suit even if
we were in agreement with the location of the dredge site.
The state cannot permit contaminated water to be returned to the Saginaw River. The precedent is huge for the entire Great Lakes region. This is not just about this local project.
To not require the legally mandated
permits on a project of this magnitude when handling large amounts
of toxic sediment and water slurried into a pit is shortsighted and
irresponsible.
The need to dredge the river does not
preclude doing this publicly financed project correctly. Commitment
to the watershed and the taxpayers deserve better.
If efforts fail to obtain the
discharge permit we seek and contaminated water is allowed to flow
back into the river's water column and move out to Lake Huron, is
that OK?
Of course it isn't. We asked The
Saginaw News for a correction but they declined.
Lone Tree Council
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