the Port Townsend Paper Mill DOES NOTHING to account for the Emissions from their Sludge Pond. This is NOT Lawful. The DOE does NOTHING. Jefferson County Looks the Other Way.

"Accountability

Gretchen Brewer, who founded PT AirWatchers, said she was told initially that air emissions from the pond are not regulated by the discharge permit, but that the pond itself, including what material goes into it, is covered by the discharge permit.

“Fumes from the ASB have not been included at all,” said Brewer. “I think it is very important. It gives us another piece of where are things being accounted for.

“If they aren’t accounting for air emissions from the pond in the air permit, then they should be accounting for them in the water permit. And likewise, if they aren’t accounting for sludge in the landfill permit, where are they accounting for it?”

Brewer, Dave McWethy and others say the mill hasn’t accounted for a lot of sources of pollution – and the discharge permit is where that could change.


Editor’s note: The Leader endeavors to follow this permit process as it did with a permit for the landfill in 2012."

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