The Bridgeton Clean & Green Team have joined a city-wide community to put the pressure on individual businesses to clean up their act. Our draft letters to EcoLube and ORRCO are being shared with the other 58+ neighborhood organizations and NGOs. They will be presented later in Feb. or March. In the mean time, we are emailing comments to DEQ regarding Columbia Steel's air quality permit.
REQUEST: COLUMBIA STEEL CASTING - Please email your comments Right now, we would like you to email a comment on the Proposed Air Quality Permit for Columbia Steel Casting. DEQ’s comment period ends next week, on Dec 18. Ironically, DEQ is currently testing their facility now, from Dec 8 - 18th but they can’t wait because their permit is based on a 5-year cycle. The new Cleaner Air Oregon regs. require testing for fine particulate matter and green house gasses (new categories). this will be the first full-fledged data collection, testing 18 separate sites within the Columbia Steel Casting Co. the data from these tests will be released mid-Feb. The links below go to DEQ NW Regional Air Quality Program for details on regulations. Please take a few minutes to email your comment now: WHAT: Send written comments by email WHEN: Written comments are due by 5 p.m. on Friday December 18th, 2020 WHERE: Email to: NWRAQPermits@deq.state.or.us Sample Email Text (feel free to edit and personalize): Please postpone Columbia Steel’s Air Containment Discharge Renewal until the Cleaner Air Oregon Health Assessment is publicly released. This would allow me to make an informed public comment. I understand that DEQ found that Columbia Steel is in the top three most dangerous industrial polluters to human health. Sincerely, _______________ I am a (board) member of the Bridgeton Neighborhood Association ____________________________________________________ For More Information, see this Public Notice about Columbia Steel Castings’ proposed Air Quality Permit: https://www.oregon.gov/deq/get-involved/documents/121820columbia.pdf
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