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	Name:	Osms -
	Subject:	Dadeville Mayor at it again...
	Date:	8/30/2007 4:56:55 PM

We need help from Forum members again. In today's Alex City Outlook and the Dadeville Record is an article with quotes from Dadeville officials and a proposed letter to be written to Lake Watch. The article is attached so I will not explain; however, we do feel that the Dadeville City Council and Mayor have done something that shows the arrogance and disdain for the law that they have shown throughout the past six months of dealing with the Dadeville Sewage Treatment Plant's dumping of raw, untreated sewage into Lake Martin. Twenty-nine (29) times Dadeville self reported these violations to the authorities at ADEM, Alabama dept. of Environmental Management. Twenty-nine times they received Notice of Violation letters from ADEM, yet they did nothing. Dadeville hid this information from the public for years.

Then Lake Watch members uncovered these violations when making a
personal search of ADEM's public records in early 2007. Dadeville still tried to deny a problem. ADEM then finally obtained a consent decree against the City to force the City leaders into action. Shortly there after, the Alabama Attorney General filed a civil suit against Dadeville for failure to act to repair the Treatment Plant and stop dumping sewage in OUR LAKE.

Then the HOBOs and Lake Watch, WITH THE HELP OF MANY FORUM MEMBERS, appealed to ADEM to hold a public hearing concerning the renewal of Dadeville's Treatment Plant License. Due to the efforts of many on the Forum, ADEM relented, there are very few public hearings allowed, and scheduled a hearing. Over 100 citizens attended the hearing and many spoke against the way Dadeville and ADEM had handled the violations.

Even with all of this the Mayor and City Council want to thumb their noses at the law and all of us. Read the article below. WE NEED YOUR HELP.
We would like everyone to write the Alex City Outlook a letter-to-the-editor and let the mayor and city council know that you don't appreciate the arrogance they have displayed through out this process. BTW, you'll read that the Dadeville Treatment Plant is far from being rebuilt, they are patching up to get ADEM and the AG off their backs.

I will post addresses and email addresses shortly.

URL: http://www.alexcityoutlook.com/articles/2007/08/30/news/news04.txt