[CPEO-MEF] Fireworks regulation at Sea World, San Diego, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Though the focus of this story is metals in fireworks, the principal 
question is one of regulation of fireworks under the Clean Water Act. - LS]

SeaWorld suspends fireworks show

Environmentalists raise issue of water pollution

By Terry Rodgers
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE (CA)
August 24, 2006

SeaWorld has suspended indefinitely its nightly fireworks show over 
Mission Bay and will apply for a potentially precedent-setting permit 
that would regulate pyrotechnics as a water pollutant.

SeaWorld has stopped the shows since Sunday to avoid a lawsuit from San 
Diego Coastkeeper, an environmental group that contends the chemical and 
paper residue falling into Mission Bay from spent fireworks constitutes 
a discharge of pollutants under the federal Clean Water Act.

"There are pollutants being discharged and the law says you need a 
permit," said Marco Gonzalez, an attorney for Coastkeeper.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060824-9999-7m24kaboom.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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