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I request a public hearing on the IEPA water per

Horseshoe Lake in 2005.

it o Granite City Steel for their industrial discharge into

The engineers found a number of things wrong with the permit, including allowing more than 3000 pounds of zinc

to be discharged annually into a lake that is impaired for zinc, allowing double the cyanide allowed, allowing a

mixing zone in a lake without flow, etc

. etc . The lake has high concentrations of zinc, lead and cadmium in the

sediment

. It is also impaired for PCBs, pH, suspended solids, excessive algal growth, ammonia (unionized),

nutrients, phosphorus, and total ammonia (N) .

GCSteel also discharges some of its sewage into the lake and a professor at SIUE says he has found

sewage-related problems in the lake .

People fish at the lake and many eat the fish from the lake, including subsistence fishers

. It is an incredible

birdwatching site

. It is used for boating, hunting, picnicking, running, biking, etc .

It is a state park, with yearly attendance above 350,000

. This permit deserves a public hearing .

Please schedule a public hearing .

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To :

Clerk Dorothy Gunn

From :

Richard Ellerbrake

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