The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to relax restrictions on dumping sewage into our waterways. But, with your help, we can stop them.

The EPA has proposed a new Clean Water Act, which would "blend" or discharge inadequately treated sewage into waterways.  The new policy would allow sewage with no biological treatment into our lakes, rivers, streams and coastal waters. This kind of treatment is intended to kill pathogens, toxic chemicals and other pollutants. But exposure to the bacteria and viruses in such polluted waterways can be life-threatening.

We must prevent millions of Americans from getting sick because of exposure from these polluted waters. 

Please tell your members of Congress that this EPA policy will pose a serious threat to public health, the economy and the environment.  Send them a message to protect the existing Clean Water Act.

Sample Letter for Campaign

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

As your constituent, I strongly urge you to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from relaxing its policies on discharging inadequately treated sewage into our waters.

Sewer authorities have been misled to believe that the solution to insufficient maintenance of aging sewer systems is to dump sewage that has been diverted around secondary treatment units, allowing sewage that has had no biological treatment to remove pathogens and pollutants to reach our water systems.

This process, known as sewage dumping, would not only fail to address the maintenance of the sewer systems, but would also fill our rivers, lakes and coastal waters with wastes, bacteria and viruses that will make more than 8 million Americans sick every year from exposure to polluted waters.

I encourage you to support the Save Our Waters from Sewage Act (H.R. 1126) to protect our families, children and communities from unnecessary illnesses.

Sincerely,

Campaign Launched:
May 10, 2005