The Jackson Wastewater Treatment Plant’s permit with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality is up for review, with a Oct. 17 deadline to comment.
The Jackson Wastewater Treatment Plant’s permit with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality is up for review, with a Oct. 17 deadline to comment.
Ecowatch is a weekly feature intended to let members of the public know when they have an opportunity to weigh in on environmental issues — and how public resources are managed. This week’s briefs were compiled by environmental reporter Billy Arnold. Did we miss something? Email barnold@jhnewsandguide.
The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality has issued a new, draft, five-year permit for the town of Jackson’s wastewater treatment plant. The public now has until Monday, Oct. 17, to weigh in on the Department of Environmental Quality’s proposed changes to the plant’s permit.
The DEQ is proposing to add nutrient monitoring requirements upstream and downstream of the plant on Flat Creek, update water quality-based effluent limits based on data from a U.S. Geological Survey station located upstream of the plant on the Snake River, and increase sampling frequency from monthly to weekly for temperature, oil and grease.
State officials also have proposed removing nitrogen, oil and grease, and total ammonia monitoring from annual requirements. The draft permit says that the DEQ is proposing to remove nitrogen monitoring requirements because the measure it was using “has been determined to be of limited value in determining a facility’s nutrient contributions to a receiving stream” and that orthophosphate phosphorous sampling and reporting will replace the annual nitrogen monitoring.
The DEQ proposed removing oil and grease and ammonia from its annual monitoring requirements because the wastewater plant already monitors and reports end-of-pipe concentrations for both “constituents” on a more frequent basis.
Pick up a future copy of the Jackson Hole News&Guide for reporting about the proposed permit, which can be found at TinyURL.com/tojplantpermit22. To comment and view the town’s application for renewing its permit visit TinyURL.com/WYDEQ922comment. The current five-year permit is effective and in place until the renewed permit is effective, according to a town of Jackson staff report.
The Bridger-Teton National Forest is seeking 15 Wyoming residents to serve on resource advisory committees that will review and recommend funding for projects in Lincoln and Sublette counties.
The deadline to apply is Nov. 15. The application can be found online at TinyURL.com/btnfrac.
Applications must be received by Bridger-Teton National Forest, Big Piney Ranger District, Attn: Gregory Brooks-RAC, 10418 U.S. Highway 189, Big Piney, WY 83113.
For electronic correspondence email Gregory.Brooks@usda.gov.
Resource advisory committees “create an opportunity for the Forest Service to work directly with the public on projects on or adjacent to National Forest System lands that benefit local communities and public lands” Bridger-Teton Supervisor Chad Hudson said in a press release.
Committee members will be expected to attend between one and four meetings a year.
They will be appointed by the secretary of agriculture to a four-year term.
Jackson Hole Airport’s southern departure task force, which was unable to find consensus on a southern departure route that would mitigate the impact of noise on neighbors to the south, will present its findings at 9 a.m. today in the Jackson Hole Airport’s board room.
The Jackson Hole Airport Board will then take public comment and consider a response to the Federal Aviation Administration, which gave the airport until Sept. 29 to come up with an alternative flight path that is “acceptable to all parties.”
You can find the agenda online at TinyURL.com/jhairportboard. Can’t make the meeting? You can participate over WebEx at TinyURL.com/20220921jhameeting. The password is ABSM.
Read more about the controversy at TinyURL.com/22airportdebate.
Contact Billy Arnold at 732-7063 or barnold@jhnewsandguide.com.
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