What the DRBC Ought to be Doing Instead of Playing Fracking Games

Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.

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The DRBC is fiddling with fracking games while Camden, Philadelphia, Trenton and Trenton burns with a pollution fever caused by raw sewage in the Delaware.

The DRBC has spent massive energy, time and money pursuing an unjustified fracking ban at the behest of special interests. Those special interests (e.g., the Delaware Riverkeeper a/k/a Povertykeeper and the Clean Air Council) have been financed by uber-rich foundations such as the Heinz Endowments while it’s benefactors are invested in Ukrainian oil and gas.

Meanwhile, the Delaware River is being massively polluted with raw sewage the DRBC is doing nothing about and is incapable of solving. It’s fiddling with fracking games while raw sewage is being dumped into the river for the residents of Camden, Philadelphia, Trenton and Wilmington to deal with. So much for all its feigned DRBC concern over drinking water.

Here’s the story from the Allentown Morning Call (emphasis added):

More than 9 million gallons of sewage-laden water spilled into the Little Lehigh Creek on Aug. 4, about a week after Lehigh County communities tied to the region’s notoriously leaky sewer system explained to the EPA how they planned to fix it.

Heavy rain tends to flood the aging sewer system, leading to overflows of sewage from Kline’s Island Wastewater Treatment Plant into the Little Lehigh. That’s what drew the EPA’s attention in 2009, when the agency issued an administrative order demanding they stop sewage from overflowing into the Little Lehigh Creek.

The recent overflow was the first in more than two years.

More than 3 inches of rain on Aug. 3 caused the bypass of 9.22 million gallons between 4:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 4, according to a document LCA submitted to the EPA…

The leaky sewer is one of those classic municipal issues that “is boring, but it’s expensive, and you can’t ignore it,” said Robert Ibach, Upper Macungie Township manager…

Late last year, the EPA asked the communities tied into Kline’s Island to submit a plan detailing how they will stop the overflows. Agency officials suggested the communities focus on fixing the leaky infrastructure instead of expanding capacity at the treatment plant, an about-face from what the LCA had been planning…

The DEP raised the red flag about the sewer overflows…

Well, let’s hope so. Imagine 9 million gallons of raw sewage entering the stream above where your community gets its drinking water. That water goes directly into the Little Lehigh Creek, from there into the Lehigh River and then on into the Delaware River at Easton, a mere 15 miles away. Here’s an overview from Google Earth:

Perhaps that’s the reason for this problem noted earlier by the Povertykeeper:

As one of our readers notes, “The elevated bacteria, and basically sewage, between Trenton and Philadelphia they are mentioning is fed directly into the fresh water intakes for North Philadelphia!

Yet, the DRBC is consumed with fracking games. What a bunch of corrupt irresponsible demagogues these people are,

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