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A July report from the National Center for Water Quality Research at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio, found the amount of dissolved phosphorus in the Maumee River is at the highest level since monitoring began in 1975.

http://www.environmentwashington.org/uploads/7a/43/7a43e4d24c84d12e2b881fe78bb1f6c5/Wasting-Our-Waterways-PRINT-vWA.pdf  Environment Washington
Research & Policy Center
Tony Dutzik
Frontier Group
Piper Crowell and John Rumpler
Environment America
Research & Policy Center
Fall 2009

FOUND:

Indiana topped the nation with over 27 million pounds of toxic chemicals dumped into the state’s waterways in 2007.

Over 230 Million Pounds of Toxics Discharged into American Waterways Industrial facilities dumped 232 million pounds of toxic chemicals into America’s waterways, according to a report released today by Environment America: Wasting Our Waterways: Industrial Toxic Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act. The report also finds that toxic chemicals were discharged in 1,900 waterways across all 50 states.

“While nearly half of the rivers and lakes in the U.S. are considered too polluted for safe fishing or swimming, our report shows that polluters continue to use our waterways as dumping grounds for their toxic chemicals,” said Piper Crowell, Clean Water Advocate for Environment America.

“On October 15, our Committee held a hearing to examine how the deterioration of the EPA’s Clean Water Act enforcement program has set back our progress in achieving the central goals of the Clean Water Act,” said Rep. James L. Oberstar (Minn.), Chairman of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. “Today, we learned of the very frightening, tangible impacts on human health and the environment that occur when toxic substances are allowed to enter our waters. The fact that many industrial facilities are exploiting the system and using the nation’s waterways as toxic dumping grounds is nothing less than a public health crisis.”

The Environment America report documents and analyzes the dangerous levels of pollutants discharged in to America’s waters by compiling toxic chemical releases reported to the U.S. EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory for 2007, the most recent data available.

Major findings of the report include:

• Indiana topped the nation with over 27 million pounds of toxic chemicals dumped into the state’s waterways in 2007.
• ExxonMobil Refining & Supply Baton Rouge Refinery released over 4.2 million pounds of toxic chemical waste into the Mississippi River in Louisiana. The ExxonMobil refinery was one of the largest reported polluter of toxic chemicals in the country in 2007.
• The top three waterways in the nation for most total toxic chemicals discharged in 2007 were the Ohio River, New River, and Mississippi River. The Ohio River also topped the nation for toxic chemicals that are cancer causing and chemicals that cause reproductive disorders. The Alabama River had the highest amount of toxic chemicals causing developmental disorders in the nation in 2007.

“Our waterways are a source of sport and recreation. We need them protected, not polluted,” said Gary Botzek, the Executive Director of the Minnesota Conservation Federation.

Environment America’s report summarizes the discharge of cancer-causing chemicals, chemicals that persist in the environment, and chemicals with the potential to cause reproductive problems ranging from birth defects to reduced fertility. Among the toxic chemicals discharged by facilities are lead, mercury, and dioxin. When dumped into waterways, these toxic chemicals contaminate drinking water and are absorbed by the fish that people eventually eat. Exposure to these chemicals is linked to cancer, developmental disorders, and reproductive disorders. In 2007, manufacturing facilities discharged approximately 1.5 million pounds of cancer-causing chemicals into American waters.

“There are common-sense steps that should be taken to turn the tide against toxic pollution of our waters,” added Crowell. “We need clean water now, and we need the federal government to act to protect our health and our environment.”

In order to curb the toxic pollution threatening America’s waterways, Environment America recommends the following:

1. Pollution Prevention: Industrial facilities should reduce their toxic discharges in to waterways by switching from hazardous chemicals to safer alternatives.
2. Tough permitting and enforcement: EPA and state agencies should issue permits with tough, numeric limits for each type of toxic pollution discharged, ratchet down those limits over time, and enforce those limits with credible penalties, not just warning letters.
3. Protect all waters: The federal government should adopt policies to clarify that the Clean Water Act applies to all of our waterways. This includes the thousands of headwaters and small streams for which jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act has been called into question, as a result of recent court decisions.

“This Wasting our Waterways report is a reminder that we have a long way to go to realize the “zero pollution” goals of the Clean Water Act and that we not only need to defend and strengthen this important law but focus our efforts on prevention,” said Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Coordinator, Clean Water Action.

2009  Testing the Waters: A guide to water quality at vacation beaches. 19th Edition. National Resource Defense Council (NRDC)http://www.nrdc.org/water/oceans/ttw/ttw2009.pdf  pg 9 & 196

IDEM 2010 Draft 303 (d)List of Impaired Water http://www.in.gov/idem/4680.htm

“We urge Congress and the President to listen to the public’s demands for clean water. They should act to protect all of our lakes, rivers and streams from toxic pollution,” concluded Crowell.

1. Pollution Prevention: Industrial facilities should reduce their toxic discharges in to waterways by switching from hazardous chemicals to safer alternatives.
2. Tough permitting and enforcement: EPA and TCEQ should issue permits with tough, numeric limits for each type of toxic pollution discharged, ratchet down those limits over time, and enforce those limits with credible penalties, not just warning letters.
3. Protect all waters: The federal government should adopt policies to clarify that the Clean Water Act applies to all of our waterways. This includes the thousands of headwaters and small streams for which jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act has been called into question, as a result of recent court decisions.

“We urge Congress and the President to listen to the public’s demands for clean water. They should act to protect all of our lakes, rivers and streams from toxic pollution,” said David Foster Texas Program Director for Clean Water Action.

On-line References
Hoosier River Watch Training Manual, http://www.in.gov/dnr/nrec/3013.htm
Natural Resources Education Center, http://www.in.gov/dnr/nrec/
North American Association for Environment Education, http://www.naaee.org/
Water Quality Standards – Indiana, http://www.epa.gov/R5water/wqs5/wqsin.htm
Clean Water Act Status: Indiana,
http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/water/cwa-state.tcl?fips_state_code=18
Indiana Ground Water Conditions, http://www.gwpc.org/e-library/documents/state_fact_sheets/indiana.pdf

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http://www.epa.gov/region5/sites/ftwaynereduction/index.htm Indiana is in EPA Region 5 for water, this is short description of Ft. Wayne’s Superfund Site?

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Junk Ditch Buy Out ~ Journal Gazette ~ Jan. 14, 2011

Caesar Chavez said it best, “Grassroots organizing is simply one person telling another person…and those 2 people going out and telling 2 more.”

How simple a concept eh?

Save Maumee has this similar mantra because we work as 100% volunteers – little money collected here and there at events for Earth Day erosion control materials.  We pick up ideas and use people for manual labor for our rivers though spreading the word.  People call to donate labor hours, encouragement, share ideas, offer services, or sometimes critique something that Save Maumee has written.

I am so grateful for all the people who do their part; civic duty, spending your time for betterment of others, volunteering, manual labor etc.  Without these people I would have stopped working to fight for our waterways a few years ago, but people DO care.  If event planning falls apart, people flake out, or it rains…the work will continue and life will go on. My husband has always been supportive of my water activism.  He gives me two pieces of advice all the time 1) Get a thicker skin  2) If the work was easy, everybody would be doing it.

So things change, life changes, we just roll with it and keeping digging away.

Speaking of changes, there has been a small change in the upcoming event at the Dash-In.  Although we look forward to working with them in the future, E.I.M. and 2RQ will not be available on February 26th.  On short notice two fabulous bands (we cannot express our deepest thanks) are taking their places.  Wonderful acoustic jazz Sounds of Saturn will begin at 9p.m. with Les Nester following at 11:30p.m.  The cover is $3 with an optional $2 raffle ticket for prizes.  Join us for great music in a local hotspot as we celebrate our Rivers!

Hope you can make it to the Dash In in Fort Wayne, Indiana (

We work tirelessly for waterway improvements

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VIDEO AND COVERAGE HERE:

Levee Tree Removal in Fort Wayne

It has recently come to the attention of Save Maumee that trees along the Maumee River and St. Mary’s River are indiscriminately being cut down by order of the Board of Public Works and the US Army Corps of Engineers.  Apparently this area of the riverbank lies on a levee and during one of the last big floods in Fort Wayne, the riverbank and the trees fell into the water.  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in charge of regulating levees by setting the safety guidelines and according to city planners the US ACE directed the city to “remove the trees and make repairs or lose the acceptable rating of flood protection.”  This has resulted in the removal of hundreds of trees along the riverbanks of the Maumee River- in addition to trees removed from the St. Mary’s and St. Joe Rivers as well.

Tree removal and stump grinding has been a hot discussion topic around town.  Between Ash Trees being removed due to the Emerald Ash Borer invasion (equaling 24% of the tree canopy in Fort Wayne) and the Oak Trees being eaten by the Gypsy Moths; no tree is sacred from removal or damage.  Now trees are being removed due to “potential levee disturbance.”  According to a former employee of the Corps Engineer and Research Development, “There has never been a documented problem with a tree.” (MSNBC- Associated Press 6/9/2009)  “The literature on the presence of vegetation indicates that it may actually strengthen a levee,” said Andrew Levesque, senior engineer for King County Washington. Yet, the mowing down of trees in Fort Wayne, never seems to end and the city does not see a problem with tree removal and does not have any plans to replace trees elsewhere except in mowed city/county park areas.

Hurricanes breaking levees and the affects in Fort Wayne, IN?

Tree removal on levees has been an ongoing problem around the country since Hurricane Katrina blasted through New Orleans, destroying the levees built to protect the city.  Recognizing that part of the issue in New Orleans was the failing levee system, the US ACE has taken a fresh look at all of the levee systems in the U.S., compiling a list of blanket regulations that every city or county lying in a floodplain must follow.   The US ACE tightened its regulations with specific criteria regarding structure safety and vegetation.  But, they tightened their regulations claiming there is an understanding “that levee systems commonly share the same space as water conveyance and critical ecosystems and habitats, and that working with these interests is vital in effectively managing flood risks.”  (Recommendations for a National Levee Safety Program; A Report to Congress from the National Committee on Levee Safety, 2009)

Save Maumee recognizes the importance of levee safety and does not dispute that the city needs to be able to assess and observe the levees and keep our homes safe from floods.  We also recognize that the rivers are filthy; contaminated with E. coli, Mercury, PCB’s, nutrients, phosphorous, sewage, garbage and general pollution- and we do not see the city working to correct or repair any of these issues, aside from a mandate to separate the sewer and storm drains (which should have been started 20 years ago).  In the world of water and vegetation that coexists along rivers, vegetation holds soil in place.  Native plants with long taproots prevent soil from being washed downstream, filter water, attract diverse species of birds and insects, slow down and absorb water as it moves quickly through the banks during times of flooding and high water, while providing shade that increases Dissolved Oxygen in the water for wildlife.  Removal of that vegetation increases soil erosion and is another means to cause failing streambanks to fall into the river.  More than 85% of Indiana’s wetlands have been eliminated since the 1800s, and many forested wetlands have been lumbered for their high-value hardwood. More than five million acres of wetlands used to exist in the state, but just over 800,000 acres remain today.  Our wetlands are nature’s kidneys and filtrate pollution as well.

Yet the city indiscriminately cuts trees out on entire riverbanks without planning to replace them anywhere- while our rivers get dirtier and turn into culverts.

Concerned citizens have contacted Save Maumee regarding the removal of these trees, filling in of flood plains (approving permits and failing to enforce fines), business vehicles leaking directly into storm drains, waste gates being open with water flushing out during times without rain, concern about removal of vegetation without plans to replant elsewhere along the river and the lack of city planning that coincides with increasing the water and ecological quality along the banks, along with other issues.  In fact, we can be bold enough to say that our organization is working to correct more than a century of neglect, degradation, and abuse on the Maumee River in Fort Wayne and have yet to see others take an active approach to stopping pollution.  We see the city cutting down trees, changing the structure of the rivers, and having a continued disregard for the community’s greatest natural assets- which also directly affects those downstream from us.  And we (Save Maumee volunteers) continue to pull tires, plastic, stoves, refrigerators, and more out of the banks while also planting the trees and vegetation that actually do some good.  The questions remain:  1) Who decides where these trees are removed? 2) Who is advising the board and the “experts” that have been consulted? 3) Who is footing the bill for this large scale project?

BEFORE                                                                AFTER

Army Corps issues tree chopping orders; Policy aimed at protecting levees draws fire from locals 

The above article states that “Army Corps of Engineers are on a mission to chop down every tree in the county Columbia LA…but later settled on a few dozen.”

The corps eventually dropped the idea because of state wildlife officials complained that the policy would destroy habitat, and residents in Sacramento and elsewhere objected that it would turned the rivers into more than barren culverts.  The corps eventually dropped the idea.

So why cut down every tree indiscriminately along the levees in Fort Wayne, IN?

All this came about in the Army Corps of Engineers in 2006 due to  Hurricane Katrina smashing the New Orleans levees in Aug. 2005 and now letters from ACE are making their way into local requirements.  The Corps wants a way to protect levees, yet our riverbanks have nothing to do with a hurricane and the City of New Orleans being built below sea level and the levees bursting from the pressure of a violent ocean during a hurricane event. TREES had NOTHING to do with it!

One reason that city continues to have flooding issues may have to do with the land use.  Water is more destructive than fire, if you keep it at bay in one part of a rip/rap levee area…it will find a way to meander somewhere else, that area may never have flooded before.  Removing trees “may contribute to the erosion of the banks.”  It definitely contributes to the fast rising and falling of water levels called flashiness.  City planning remains to be poor, even though building previously on a floodplain was not this administrations mistake.  The city/county continually ignores the importance of the ecological systems along the rivers, which also provides safety to the quality of the waterways, fish, birds, etc. Highlights of Plan-it Allen – Allen County’s Comprehensive Plan

Lawyers have sent a letter of inquiry into the massive tree removal along local riverbanks.  See it here: Request for Information

A Report to Congress from the National Committee on Levee Safety Jan., 2009.

So what are locals saying?

Ryan Bailey, Save Maumee’s Project Director noticed the blank space first.  “The city is cutting down all the trees along the banks of the Maumee River on Edgewater Blvd.   This does not help the bank stabilization process, does it? The trees and grasses are what Save Maumee plants to try to keep diversity and soil stabilization!  This is counter-productive, it is negating all the work Save Maumee has put into our riverbanks and their preservation!”