...because governm
ent
inspectors cannot possibly monitor every mile of river nor every
yard of shoreline every moment of every day. In fact, budget
reductions in recent years have severely limited monitoring
efforts by government agencies. Although industries and cities
have the responsibility of controlling and monitoring their
legal discharges to rivers and stream there are times that
accidents occur. There are times when loads of oil and chemicals
are dumped into storm sewers or illegally discharged directly to
waterways. When you see someone dumping something into a sewer,
something unusual being discharged from a pipe or when you see
unusual substances in or floating on the water, we ask you to
report what you see to an appropriate government agency.
