I request a public hearing on the IEPA water perHorseshoe 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 zincto be discharged annually into a lake that is impaired for zinc, allowing double the cyanide allowed, allowing amixing 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 se...
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