It’s a serious situation in Waycross, with people getting sick and dying.
The contamination, whatever it is,
may have crossed into WWALS watersheds, as well.
Good interactions between WWALS, Satilla Riverkeeper,
and silentdisaster.org, plus EPA, GA EPD, and GA Health Dept.
Matthew J. Huyser, EPA (l. standing blue shirt), Jim Brown, GA EPD (c. standing white shirt), Ashby Nix, Satilla Riverkeeper (facing Brown, paper in hand), Joan Martin McNeal, silentdisaster.org (r. in group)
For details, see these posts on Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE): Continue reading →
The project’s stated purpose in the EA is “economic development,” as part of the Governor’s Road Improvement Program created in the 1980s. See EA at 4. The NEPA regulations promulgated by the Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) require agencies to examine the indirect impacts of projects — those growth-inducing impacts caused by a project, such as changes in land use and development patterns. 40 C.F.R. § 1508.8(b). Yet over and over, when purporting to examine the project’s potential for indirect impacts on various natural resources, the EA repeats, “The proposed project is not expected to precipitate substantial development along the corridor.”