From: Karin Langner [mailto:karin_langner@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:37 PM
To: ed@edhumphrey.com
Subject: Miamiville Civic Association info
 
Greetings,
Here is the response I received from Senator Doug
White's office.
best, Karin Weyer
--- "Park, Becki A" <blayton@mailr.sen.state.oh.us>
wrote:
> From: "Park, Becki A"
> <blayton@mailr.sen.state.oh.us>
> To: "'karin_langner@yahoo.com'"
> <karin_langner@yahoo.com>
> Subject: FW: Constituent Case
> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:13:42 -0400
>
> As promised, this is the email I wanted to get to
> you. I hope it helps.
>
> B. Park
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jennifer Klein
> [mailto:Jennifer.Klein@epa.state.oh.us]
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 12:42 PM
> To: blayton@mailr.sen.state.oh.us
> Subject: RE: Constituent Case
>
>
> Just let me know if you have any additional
> questions. Basically, we are in
> the beginning of this process, so we don't have a
> lot more to provide at
> this point.
>
> >>> "Park, Becki A" <blayton@mailr.sen.state.oh.us>
> 08/28/03 09:47AM >>>
> Thanks, Jen. I am still trying to catch up -- I was
> out for 2-3 days. I'll
> be in touch with you if I still need more!
>
> :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jennifer Klein
> [mailto:Jennifer.Klein@epa.state.oh.us]
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 10:12 AM
> To: blayton@mailr.sen.state.oh.us;
> bpark@mailr.sen.state.oh.us
> Subject: Constituent Case
>
>
> Clermont County has submitted an NPDES application
> for a brand new 2.0 mgd
> plant that would indeed discharge to the Little
> Miami near the
> unincorporated community of Miamitown. This is a
> facility that the County
> has had in the concept stage for years and years.
> There was a public
> meeting on the receipt of this application held last
> Thursday (August 14) to
> receive just this sort of comment.
>
> The "Remington" plant referred to is actually called
> the Sycamore Creek
> Plant, operated by MSD. The Sycamore facility was a
> source of much comment
> on Thursday and has been a sore spot in the area due
> to extreme wet weather
> flows and the associated problems that has created.
> We held a similar
> meeting, though not as contentious, in July on MSD's
> National Pollutant
> Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) application to
> expand and upgrade that
> plant to specifically deal with these sorts of
> problems. I believe the
> estimated cost of the improvements was on the order
> of $15 to $20 million.
>
> We have yet another meeting on another application
> from the City of Mason
> later this month for a major expansion at that
> facility. The reason I
> mention this is that all three facilities are
> interactive as far as stream
> modeling and we will probably be looking at their
> collective impacts as we
> review these three situations.
>
> It should be emphasized that so far all we have are
> some applications; no
> permits have been drafted yet. A draft permit for
> Sycamore should be
> sometime in the near future, the timing on the
> others is more difficult to
> predict. All draft permits will be subject to
> additional public notice and
> public hearings.
>
> Obviously, it is not our intent nor expectation that
> the Little Miami be
> "destroyed". The Little Miami was and is a very
> high quality stream that is
> showing the strain of all the development pressure
> in recent decades. We
> are forced to balance maintaining and improving that
> quality against the
> additional burdens placed upon it by the adjacent communities. It is
> not an easy task.
>
> I hope this additional information has been helpful.
> If you have any
> additional questions do not hesitate to give me a
> call.
>
> Jennifer Klein, OEPA
> Legislative Liaison
> p - (614) 644-2782
> f - (614) 644-3184