BOARD02205

• Board Meeting Date: 3/10/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

year. Although I haven't received the
official letter yet, I did read in the paper
this morning that they had been approved with-
out reservations.

The standards include the criteria for
waters that are used for public water supply.
They include criteria for waters to be used
for fish and recreational use, industrial
waters, and agricultural waters. In addition
we have one broad standard that covers all
waters, irrespective of whether or not they
are classified. These are the basic standards.
possibly the most important of our basic
standards is the first one that says that we
shall have secondary treatment or its equiva-
lent. We define secondary treatment as the
removal of 80 percent of the organic constitu-
ents plus disinfection.

The commission now has a committee working
on effluent standards. Our law was amended in
'67 to allow for the adoption of effluent
standards if the stream standard is exceeded.
We have found that it has been exceeded in a
number of areas. As a result, we are in the
process of, preparing effluent standards.

In a newsletter I read this morning, it
points out that the President has requested
effluent standards across the board. I also
know that the federal people have contracted
with various agencies and consultants to pre-
pare effluent standards for 22 specific indus-
tries. So it would be my guess that within a
year or two we will be required to have efflu-
ent standards.

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One of the areas which did not receive I
much press coverage is the plan of implementa-
tion. This was another requirement of the
federal people back in 1966. They said also
that by June 30 of '67 we had to have a plan
of implementation or how we were going to
accomplish the task of cleaning up our streams.