EPA never implemented the Clean Water Act, because it did not consider nitrogenous (urine and protein) waste a pollutant and allowed rivers to be used as giant urinals. This waste, besides exerting an oxygen demand like fecal waste, also is a fertilizer for algae and aquatic plant growth and as such responsible for the eutrophication of our open water and eventually causing dead zones, as now experienced in the Gulf of Mexico, Chesapeake Bay and many other open waters.

All this was (still is) caused by an incorrect applied pollution test, EPA used to implement the CWA and although EPA in 1984 acknowledge the problems with this test, it in stead of correcting the test, allowed an alternative test now officially ignoring the nitrogenous waste pollution and lowering the original goal of the CWA from 100% treatment (elimination of all pollution) to a measly 35% treatment. Other major problems caused by this still incorrect used test, are that one can not evaluate the real performance of a sewage treatment plant and what it effluent waste loading is on receiving water bodies, while there also is a real possibility that such treatment facilities are designed to treat the wrong waste. For more info visit www.petermaier.net

Ever since Senator Obama declared to run for president, I contacted both his senate staffs in Illinois and Washington and his campaign staffs several times, requesting the senator to write a letter to the EPA administrator and ask him why EPA never implemented the CWA. I am sure that if the senator would have been aware of this issue, he would have written such a letter.

Too often staff members, especially in Washington DC, will decide what information to pass on and by doing so keep their bosses in the dark. This probably is the main reason why nothing works in Washington DC and as long as such an attitude prevails and tolerated (the plus point is that if issues later come up members of Congress can excuse themselves, by saying that they did not know), it will be impossible to make any changes in Washington, even after Senator Obama is elected President.

When nobody in Congress is willing to hold the EPA accountable, our open waters only will deteriorate further.

I pee in the river whenever I can.

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Liberals believe it is okay to kill babies, but not terrorists.

democrats believe it is okay to taser a 10 year old if this stance will get their guy elected.

sorry in advance.

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Nice, funny too. Way to use the creativity gene.

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Liberals believe it is okay to kill babies, but not terrorists.

democrats believe it is okay to taser a 10 year old if this stance will get their guy elected.

They didn't implement the policy because it would ban fertilizer run off, which feeds most of the world's hungry, and we all know how much those liberals love the hungry! (to starve).

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