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Thursday, May 2, 2019

Envirobarrassment: Biggest industrial pollution regulation violator is in MoCo Council's backyard

Even while clearcutting forests for the Purple Line and campaign donors' housing developments, the Montgomery County Council touts themselves as environmental warriors. Embarrassingly, the WSSC has tagged a business not far from the Council's notorious lair in Takoma Park as the only industrial polluter to not comply with federal and WSSC regulations in Montgomery County last year.

The water utility cites the Coca-Cola Bottling Company facility at 1710 Elton Road in Silver Spring as being in "Significant Noncompliance with the United States Environmental Protection Agency's National Pretreatment Standards and/or WSSC's Industrial and Special Waste Regulations." Coca-Cola "failed to notify WSSC within 24 hours of becoming aware of a violation," WSSC said in a statement. The utility says it issued the business a Notice of Violation and a Compliance Directive.
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 2, 2019 at 9:21 AM

    I'm glad that we live in a jurisdiction where all but one of our thousands of local business are in compliance with clean water regulations!

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    1. Robert DyerMay 2, 2019 at 10:00 AM

      I think the WSSC is strictly referring to large industrial customers in this report.

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  2. AnonymousMay 2, 2019 at 9:33 AM

    "not far from the Council's notorious lair in Takoma Park"

    Oh, please. What does this have to do with anything?

    You're getting crazier with each passing day.

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    1. Robert DyerMay 2, 2019 at 9:59 AM

      9:33: If you're defending the Montgomery County cartel, you are the one who is crazy. They have zero accomplishments in two decades in power.

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    2. AnonymousMay 2, 2019 at 10:17 AM

      There is no such thing as "the Montgomery County cartel". That's just a figment of your overworked imagination.

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    3. Robert DyerMay 2, 2019 at 10:52 AM

      10:17: The campaign finance records and collusion during the elections prove otherwise.

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    4. AnonymousMay 2, 2019 at 11:21 AM

      You've got nothing.

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    5. AnonymousMay 4, 2019 at 10:57 PM

      Why don’t you just publish the records to prove your case?

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    6. Robert DyerMay 7, 2019 at 7:51 AM

      You just got bodyslammed. "Oh! Right into the buckle - that's gotta hurt, Gene."

      Piledriver! Off the top rope!

      1-2-3
      ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding

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  3. AnonymousMay 2, 2019 at 10:15 AM

    "The Montgomery County Council touts themselves as environmental warriors. Embarrassingly, the WSSC has tagged a business not far from the Council's notorious lair in Takoma Park as the only industrial polluter to not comply with federal and WSSC regulations in Montgomery County last year."

    Well, WSSC is a bi-county agency, under the jurisdiction of Montgomery County and Prince George's County, and they are enforcing clean-water regulations against a business that was found to be out of compliance with said regulations.

    So what exactly is the problem here?

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