06-03-2019, 05:11 AM
I associate NPDES permits with situations where somebody is discharging wastewater into another body of water. All wastewater treatment plants require one. Powerplants that use ocean or river water for cooling all have them. Cities have them for the storm water that they discharge when it rains. How does an observatory that will be trucking every drop of water that they produce down to, presumably, a wastewater treatment plant, get caught up in that?
All the people protesting will then shortly go to the bathroom* and flush their waste into the ocean ultimately. They will drive home leaving traces of oil on the roads that will end up in the ocean.
Given that the TMT will discharge almost nothing compared to themselves, if they were really sincere they would minimize their driving and hence their impact on the aina by staying home.
ETA: * I hope they will use the city's sanitary sewer system although "protectors" crapping all over Mauna Kea have already set a bad precedent.
All the people protesting will then shortly go to the bathroom* and flush their waste into the ocean ultimately. They will drive home leaving traces of oil on the roads that will end up in the ocean.
Given that the TMT will discharge almost nothing compared to themselves, if they were really sincere they would minimize their driving and hence their impact on the aina by staying home.
ETA: * I hope they will use the city's sanitary sewer system although "protectors" crapping all over Mauna Kea have already set a bad precedent.