1. Coastal cities would find it easier to release lightly treated sewage into the ocean. 2. Downstream, the treated sewage of the Phoenix area runs back into the riverbed, where signs warn people not to swim or eat the fish they hook. 3. For years, treated sewage overflow from Santa Rosa has entered the river via Mark West Creek near Mirabel Park. 4. In other words, there were minuscule traces of treated sewage in some animal feeds, mostly used for pigs and chickens, not cows. 5. Ledder said Disney has already shut off fountains in non-prominent areas and increased its use of treated sewage to water landscaping and wash buses. 6. Missouri regulators have cited the growing Ozarks town of Mountain View, which this month spilled partly treated sewage into a tributary of a federally protected stream. 7. On the treated sewage injections, the EPA has scheduled a meeting next month in West Palm Beach to listen to ideas. 8. Some organic advocates also took issue with a proposal to allow treated sewage to be used as fertilizer. 9. Some of the samples found bacteria levels thousands of times above the federal limits for treated sewage. 10. The massive amounts of poorly treated sewage, farm wastes and other pollution dumped into the oceans each day are coming back to haunt us. |