LIAR, LIAR, LIAR Straight from Madoreville: Then a dramatic local economic turnaround set Clark County apart from all other comparable communities. New Environmental Services Department leadership brought Clark County into compliance with the state for the first time in years and storm water permits became quick and easy to obtain. Madore keeps trotting out this shaggy, rabid dog, and I immediately draw bead on it - like Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (my favorite movie) - and drop it where it stands. Clark County commissioners on Tuesday unanimously voted to make permanent the temporary changes adopted immediately after the courts ruling that the county violated the Clean Water Act from 2008 to 2011. ----------------------- So, all that was done in 2013 (A.B. after Benton) was to make permanent the changes which had already been in place since 2011. ----------------------- In 2011, U.S. District Judge Ronald B. Leighton issued an injunction against Clark County, ordering it to follow state default stormwater requirements that newly developed land drain as slowly as it did prior to Euro-American settlement. columbian/news/2013/aug/06/clark-county-revises-stormwater-rules/ Leighton wrote that “even viewed in the light most favorable to Clark County,” the evidence shows the county was in violation of its National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit from Aug. 17, 2008, to Dec. 28, 2011. columbian/news/2013/dec/18/county-pay-3-million-violating-clean-water-act/ --------------------------------------- The county was in violation only up to 12/28/2011, which was the date Judge Leighton issued his injunction that the county must follow the State Default standards while it continued to litigate its case. On that date, the county stopped issuing permits for 5 days, over the New Year Holiday, then started up Jan, 2012, applying the state standards which it has followed to the current time. Don Benton did not bring the county into compliance. It had been in compliance since 12/28/2011 -- 18 months before Benton was hired. During the hearing to make the new Stormwater rules permanent, nobody showed up to testify, and Benton said thats because nothing is changing; weve been doing it this way for almost two years. Aint that what you said? Aint that what you said? Aint that what you said? Liar Liar, liar youtube/watch?v=mq5_pEO8a8U
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 06:22:42 +0000
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