If federal regulators insist on getting their way, the cost to ratepayers in Euclid could be exorbitant and for little to no environmental gain, so claims the Ohio EPA, the City of Euclid, and other public wastewater treatment plant operators.
. They are concerned that a costly and misguided precedent is in the process of being set.
Dreyfuss-Wells was among the various stakeholders who testified during a June 8 virtual public hearing in opposition to the U.S. EPA’s stricter limit on phosphorus at the Euclid plant. “We used EPA’s most recent science, methods and models to derive an effluent limit necessary to ensure the discharge does not contribute to the microcystin problem,” an EPA spokswoman stated in an email reponse to a request for more information.
Toxic cyanobacteria from a harmful algal bloom turn western Lake Erie water green at the Maumee Bay State Park beach in Oregon, Ohio in August of 2019.The U.S. EPA in its objection calls for a monthly average limit of 0.007 milligrams per liter.presented by the Ohio EPA during the public hearing, meeting such a strict requirement is not possible and would have no meaningful impact on the lake.
Euclid Service Director Dan Knecht said work on the city’s plant is nearly complete but that it’s too early to know the degree to which treatment levels have improved. If they can’t meet stricter phosphorus limits set by the U.S. EPA, more investment would be required.
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