Ohio EPA Pollution Data Questioned

(Dayton, Ohio) The Miami Conservancy District is disputing the estimates provided by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency regarding pollution in the Great Miami River watershed.

The Conservancy, whose program covers Ohio's portion of the Great Miami River watershed, estimated 167,753 kilograms of phosphorus was discharged between April 2005 and April 2006 in the portion of the watershed drained by the Stillwater River. Comparable amounts of phosphorus were discharged the next year, [Conservancy program manager] Hall said.

That's far lower than the Ohio EPA's recent baseline estimate of 669,579 kilograms and the EPA's goal of 225,693 kilograms.

And the disparity is not insignificant. The Ohio EPA estimated four times the amount of pollution that the Miami Conservancy estimated. Either one or both groups are way off.

One must wonder if there are other examples where the estimates provided by the Ohio EPA are questionable. I'd speculate that there are because it seems that virtually all of the people baptized to save the planet are prone to grossly exaggerate.