Della Guidry
February 12, 2008
Robert Mike
February 14, 2008The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality will hold a public hearing tomorrow, Feb. 14, at 6 p.m., in the Terrebonne Parish Council meeting room, about American Advanced Technologies’ permit application to discharge treated oily and sanitary wastewater into the Munson slip and the Houma Navigation Canal.
The wastewater will come from a non-hazardous used oil recovery facility.
Although DEQ has determined the wastewater will have no adverse impact on the canal, the Terrebonne Parish Council requested the public hearing at its Dec. 12 meeting because the canal supplies fresh water.
DEQ announced American Advanced Technologies permit application on Nov. 1.
Nolan Bergeron, a former parish councilman who is a member of the Terrebonne Parish Coastal Zone Management Advisory Committee, wrote to DEQ questioning past permits granted by Louisiana to waste-processing facilities.
At the Jan. 22 Council Public Services Committee meeting, Bergeron said American Advanced Technologies could discharge 80,000 gallons of oily waste into the Houma Navigation Canal, though he did not give a time frame.
