Turbidity

For those that live along the Esopus and are experiencing hardship or inconvenience by the DEP's release of polluted water into our environment for the last several months. The County Executive (who has been one of the few elected officials trying to fight the destruction of our waterways by our neighbors to the south) has a pretty interesting idea in this morning's Freeman. http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2011/01/25/news/doc4d3e4282d0233139153164.txt?viewmode=default

Good idea, start hitting from all ends. Whether through individual lawsuits, insurance claims, complaints and I would add requests to our Assemblymen, Senators, and Congressmen for investigations, the public outcry needs to be strong and create as much as a hassle as possible.

I have personally seen with my own eyes what happens when the DEP suspects that someone MIGHT be mistakenly (through system failure) losing pollutants into the ground 20 miles from the nearest Reservoir. They show up with police and threaten to arrest you and anyone else they can think of.

My question is: When they are polluting, who shows up on our behalf and starts threatening arrest?