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"On behalf of the undersigned environmental organizations (including Milwaukee Riverkeeper), we write to express our disappointment with EPA’s Draft Recreational Water Quality Criteria (RWQC). We believe EPA has overlooked critical data and has missed an opportunity to improve our nation’s beach and recreational water quality and strengthen public health protection."

For more information see the attached documents.

Milwaukee Riverkeeper, through its attorneys Midwest Environmental Advocates, has sent a notice of intent to sue under the Clean Water Act to ChemWorks Inc. (also known as Advanced Waste Services), a Milwaukee-area centralized waste treater.

The notice asserts that ChemWorks, which discharges its wastewater into the sewer system operated by MMSD, has dumped excessive amounts of a variety of toxic chemicals into the sewer. This is a problem for area waters because MMSD’s sewer system is not designed to remove these chemicals, but instead relies on companies like ChemWorks to not release them into the sewer in the first place.

CHICAGO (Feb. 17, 2012) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Milwaukee County today announced completion of contaminated sediment removal in Lincoln Creek and the Milwaukee River Channel. This project brings the Milwaukee Estuary closer to being removed from a binational list of Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes.

"The work by state, county, city and other partners over the years has helped deliver real results under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative," said Cameron Davis, Senior Advisor to the EPA Administrator. “Thousands of cubic yards of harmful contaminated sediment were removed to help boost human, ecological and local economic health. But we can’t stop here. We’re looking for new partners to match funds to accelerate cleanups in other Areas of Concern in Wisconsin and around the Great Lakes."

UPDATE: Shell has responded with a list of Community Information FAQ's.  They are attached below.

*If you require more information on this issue contact the Milwaukee pipline community information line at: 1-866-467-4775. 

Milwaukee Riverkeeper has been monitoring the estimated 9,000 gallon jet fuel leak from a Shell Oil Company pipeline along the eastern border of Mitchell International Airport, which discharged jet fuel into Wilson Park Creek and the Kinnickinnic River for OVER A WEEK in late January before the pipeline was shut down.