<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Green friends,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since we all care about water quality, and it doesn’t get any closer to home than the Ohio River, please take note. Public comments are welcome through August 20. (That’s MODNAY!) So I hope you will find five minutes to write a letter asking for MORE, not less, protection of water quality. What you need to know to write a meaningful and substantive letter is in the links below. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Why in the world is protecting water quality a controversial thing?!? It makes no sense.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope to see you Friday at 6 (or even at 5)!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—dawn</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">West Virginia Rivers Coalition <<a href="mailto:ktyner@wvrivers.org" class="">ktyner@wvrivers.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Help Keep Ohio River Protections in Place - Act by 8/20</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">August 15, 2018 at 11:00:29 AM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:revkatgreen@gmail.com" class="">revkatgreen@gmail.com</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:ktyner@wvrivers.org" class="">ktyner@wvrivers.org</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class="">
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<h3 style="text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana;" class="">Send a Letter & Help Keep Ohio River Protections in Place</span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;" class=""><img src="http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/51680/images/ohio%20river.jpg" width="600" height="294" align="middle" alt="" class=""></h3><p class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana;" class="">The commission charged with developing pollution limits for the entire Ohio River has voted to discontinue this important responsibility</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;" class="">. Now, that decision is out for <b class="">public comment through August 20</b>. You can read WV Rivers' comments <a href="http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0RdiSY8TsRYbrylLrB%2FqoKUYlxVB3Gz7" class="">here</a>. </span></p><p class=""><font face="Verdana" class="">WV Rivers and our allies throughout the Ohio River basin are concerned about this decision for a number of reasons. </font></p>
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<li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;Palatino Linotype" class="">There will be protection gaps and inconsistencies. </span></b>Across the eight states in the Ohio River basin, there are a total of 440 pollutants where there are no state water quality standards or ORSANCO’s standards are more protective than the states.</span></p>
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<li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;Palatino Linotype" class="">States will have added burden. </span></b>States depend on ORSANCO to establish numeric criteria for toxins like copper, cyanide, fluoride, methylmercury, and nitrites. Without ORSANCO’s pollution control standards, states would be burdened with the financial responsibility of researching, developing, and establishing numeric criteria for toxins that do not already have a state standard. </span></p>
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<li class=""><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana;" class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;Palatino Linotype" class="">Downstream states stand to pay the price.</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;" class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;Palatino Linotype" class=""> </span>A state-by-state approach to setting water quality standards raises concerns related to interstate conflict. Without uniform standards for the Ohio River, an upriver state could develop weak water quality standards that could lead to pollution related issues for downriver states.</span></p>
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<li class=""><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana;" class="">It's a step backward in cleaning up the Ohio River.</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;" class=""> ORSANCO’s pollution control standards are set to manage the Ohio River basin as a whole, rather than disjointed river segments. States should be able to count on ORSANCO to set uniform standards that bring the entire Ohio River closer to meeting the Clean Water Act’s key tenants of fishable, swimmable, and drinkable.</span></p>
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<b class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana;" class="">Send a letter now. </span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;" class="">Check out our <a href="http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=S9XzXseHnrellqn%2Bx5Yq7Z5JOGBTLXYa" class="">fact sheet</a> and <a href="http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=H7nyIXXYNr1yxp%2FcJmkf2p5JOGBTLXYa" class="">let the ORSANCO commissioners know</a> that you want them to continue to set river wide pollution control standards</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;" class="">! </span><b class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana;" class="">Comment by August 20. </span></b><br class="">
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