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Name:	alabamageologist -	Reply
Subject:	Dadeville Not Alone
Date:	11/13/2007 8:20:00 PM

Reviewing ADEM public notices, I discovered the Water, Sewer, and Gas Board of Wedowee and the Roanoke utilities Board each had sanitary sewage discharges to waters of the State. The Wedowee outfall is Wedowee Creek (Lake Wedowee). Roanoke outfall is High Pine Creek that flows into the Tallapoosa River in Chamber County. The discharge violations have been occuring for years and has resulted in consent orders with thousands of dollars in fines. I do not know if City of Dadeville has entered into such an order to fix the waste water treatment plant.
I seem to remember a similar situation 10-15 years ago when sludge was deposited into Elkahatchee Creek by City of Alexander
City. Was that sludge ever removed? Or was the only the outfall moved to the main lake above Wind Creek Park?
Accountability from the regional municipalities would be appropriate. They bring in residential, commercial, and industrial developments and soak up increase revenue through sales and property taxes. It is the fault of city planners that discharges to waters of the State are occuring.

Name:	Osms -	Reply
Subject:	ADEM
Date:	11/13/2007 8:28:07 PM

Do you feel that ADEM is doing their job enforcing pollution regulations on Cities?

BTW, Alex City modernized their WWTP, not sure about the downstream sludge.

Name:	Maverick -	Reply
Subject:	Dadeville Not Alone
Date:	11/13/2007 10:29:44 PM

Also read an article a couple of weeks ago that the AL Attorney General also sued the city of Pell City when a local citizen group threatened a lawsuit over sewage discharge into Logan Martin.

The article was online in the Daily Home newspaper. Cannot copy line as to long.

If interested go to http://www.dailyhome.com/dh-index.htm and search under ARCHIVES in left nav bar for ADEM.

Short excerpt of article is:

PELL CITY - An official with the state Attorney General's Office said Wednesday a lawsuit filed against the city was not a punitive measure but a preemptive measure to protect the city from future lawsuits. The Attorney General's Office and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management filed the lawsuit alleging the city violated the Alabama Water Pollution Control Act by discharging pollutants into Alabama waters.

The lawsuit alleges the city had 405 sanitary

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