Newmarket recently received its permit from the EPA, which gave us a discharge limit of 3 mil of nitrogen per liter for our wastewater treatment plant. (I'm pretty sure that we currently discharge about 30 mil/l, so we have our work cut out for us.) Newmarket has been involved in a coalition of Seacoast towns fighting the EPA guidelines, but it was reported yesterday that we will comply with the new limits. From reading the article in the Exeter Newsletter, it sounds as though this buys us both a little time and a little good will. Not to mention, it allows us to avoid a costly legal battle AND most importantly, do our part to protect Great Bay.
Now we are faced with building a multi-million dollar water treatment facility.
So much of this has been under wraps because of legal concerns, but now I hope that we will work closely with neighboring towns to try and share this burden.
When Don Jutton said that Newmarket couldn't go it alone, he wasn't only talking about the school, right?
Right??
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