"No response is required." UPDATED

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A Right To Know was filed with the Allegheny County Conservation District on November 20, 2014 concerning the technical deficiencies they found with the Turf Project. This is not to be confused with the technical deficiencies the DEP found with the Turf Project in this document dated August 27, 2014 or Gateway's response to the DEP in their September 4, 2014 letter addressing technical deficiencies. Or the DEP's response to Mt. Lebanon residents here.

The Allegheny County Conservation District sent a letter to David Donnellan on July 1, 2014 with a list of technical deficiencies. Gateway responded to ACCD on July 3, 2014 with this terse reply.

Correspondence from the ACCD continued as late as September 25, 2014. Reading the arrogant response from Dan Deiseroth on September 29, 2014 makes me wonder why the ACCD and DEP granted the NPDES permit. My team was professional and respectful with the ACCD and DEP.

Update January 3, 2015 6:15 AM From Steve Feller's January 2, 2015 Administrative Report:

Fraasch reads to commissioners UPDATED

Albert Turfstein has added another video. He writes:

Commissioner Kelly Fraasch goes through some of the hazards listed in the artificial turf MSDS sheets as well as uncovers the fact that the Zinc levels will be ABOVE state of California limits in contradiction to what Commissioner Linfante says. The "expert" in the room doesn't know how much zinc is in grass, doesn't know if flame retardants will be used and doesn't know if chemicals will be used to lessen static issues. Commissioner Silverman likens turf zinc to lozenges you might take for a cold. Really?

Watch Dave Bumfield. He is the only one who doesn't follow along while Kelly Fraasch reads the warnings from the MSDS data. He has never seen anything negative concerning artificial turf because he refuses!





Link to video: http://youtu.be/DWWSNKOJpZU

Updated November 6, 2014 9:30 AM Albert Turfstein has uploaded another video. In this video, Gateway's Dan Deiseroth discusses the non-issue of runoff. He also states that the NPDES permit will be in hand by Friday, July 11, 2014.

Note: With all the revisions to stormwater management required by the DEP, the NPDES permit was finally granted on October 16, 2014. No word from the commissioners on how many millions of dollars will be added to the cost of the project for these mandatory upgrades. Thank you to all of the public commenters, or else the ACCD would have not taken this seriously. The ACCD forwarded it to the DEP for review.




Link to video: http://youtu.be/aV3SOz878YI When the video is embedded into a blog posting, the actual views are not tallied on YouTube. The number listed on YouTube is always less than the actual amount of views of any video.

Hope to see you at the protest on Saturday!

UPDATE November 7, 2014 5:49 PM Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for artificial turf mentioned above