CORALations to File Civil Suit Against EPA to resolve El Monstro del Mar ...the Ponce Regional Waste Water Treatment Plant

CORALations. The American Littoral Society the Mid Atlantic Environmental Law Center at Widener University filed a 60 day notice of intent to sue the Ponce Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP)on November 4th, 2004.
Text of this letter can be viewed at:
www.coralations.org/PONCE60day.pdf

The Ponce primary WWTP plant has been egregiously out of compliance to even primary waste water removal standards has also been leaking this lethal effluent for years. The black plume of water leaking from the plant is referred to by locals as El Monstro del Mar.

This is truly a sea monster to area corals and public health. With an 80% decline in live Caribbean coral coverage over the past three decades, it seems the only ones still questioning why this globally important ecosystem is crashing are the government agencies workign for the public to protect the resources. Today the government does not recognize peer reviewed publications in SCIENCE and other credible journals indicating an 80% decline in live coral coverage over the past three decades in the Caribbean as "enough data to say change is occurring on our coral reefs."

More information at: www.coralations.org/about_coral_reefs/action_alert.htm