What Did the Sierra Club Do?
Well, we didn’t file the lawsuit. But once the Consent Decree and Settlement Agreement were in place, we set to work to ensure that Missouri’s rules met the federal requirements. Angel Kruzen, myself, and many, many others wrote press releases, placed OpEds in several newspapers, alerted Stream Teams, alerted citizens who live downstream, assisted with Letters to Editors of regional newspapers and gave presentations to persons and groups concerned that Sewage Treatment Plants would continue to foul the streams in which whole body contact occurred. Angel and I have also participated in MDNR Water Quality Working Groups (we’re on one now that addresses Wet Weather Discharges and Combined Sewer Overflows), participated in Water Quality Forums, and addressed the Clean Water Commission on at least two occasions. We submitted voluminous comments on the new Water Quality Standards, submitted general comments on the UAA process and on specific UAA’s. Thanks to the efforts of the Sierra Club, c
