When The Spell Is Broken

After Spell of 3 Years & 7 Months, the NJ Drinking Water Quality Institute To Meet Again

All your magic and your ways and schemes
All your lies come and tear at your dreams
When the spell is broken 
(Can’t cry if you don’t know how)
When the spell is broken
Now you’re handing her that same old line
It’s just straws in the wind this time
When love has died, 
There’s none starry-eyed
No kiss, no tears, 
No farewell souvenirs
Not even a token, when the spell is broken

Don’t swear your heart 
From the very start
Love letters you wrote 
Are pushed back down you throat
And leave you choking, when the spell is broken   ~~~ When the spell is broken (Richard Thompson)

Richard Thompson version (listen)

Bonnie Rait – Blind Boys of Alabama version (listen)

The spell is broken.

(We know who imposed the spell and why the spell was imposed.)

DEP Commissioner Bob Martin, champion of "customer service" and "regulatory relief"

DEP just posted a note on their website that the NJ Drinking Water Quality Institute will meet on April 29, 2014, after a 3 year and 7 month spell.

Here is the Agenda for that meeting.

Because it appears that DEP will be pursuing an MCL for PFNA, I need to update this recent post, where I questioned DEP’s motives and accused the DEP of evading the MCL route in favor of an Interim Specific Ground  Water Quality Criteria.

But, according to the agenda, there is no clarity regarding the “status of (prior) DWQI recommendations”, so I still question DEP’s motives.

To see what those prior DWQI recommendations are, see this post, which I wrote after the last DWQI meeting on September 10, 2010:

• Total Collapse at the Drinking Water Quality Institute

For a clarification and expansion on that post, see this post, which I wrote a few days later:

• Running The Regulatory Gauntlet – A Dispatch from the Weeds

Should be an interesting meeting on April 29, 2014 – hope to see you there.

Hal Bozarth, lobbyist for the NJ Chemistry Council (AKA "The Godfather of Toxics")