{"id":2777,"date":"2009-10-08T11:10:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T15:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/biggest-polluters-in-lowndes-county.html"},"modified":"2009-10-08T11:10:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T15:10:38","slug":"biggest-polluters-in-lowndes-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/biggest-polluters-in-lowndes-county.html","title":{"rendered":"Biggest polluters in Lowndes County"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/projects.nytimes.com\/toxic-waters\/polluters\/georgia\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3520\/3992495529_dba4863396_m.jpg\" title=\"Georgia Water Polluters\"><\/a>\nThe New York Times provides an <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.nytimes.com\/toxic-waters\/polluters\/georgia\">interactive map of water polluters<\/a>.\nAccording to that map, derived from Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) data mostly from 2004 through 2007,\nthe biggest offenders in Lowndes County by number of violations are:\n<blockquote>\n62 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moody.af.mil\/\">Moody Air Force Base<\/a>\n<br>\n42 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arizonachemical.com\/\">Arizona Chemical Company<\/a>\n<br>\n37 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiasheriffs.org\/Display.asp?Page=BoysRanch\">Georgia Sheriffs&#8217; Boys Ranch<\/a>\n<\/blockquote>\nThese are all way ahead of Hahira&#8217;s notorious sewer system\n(supposed to be fixed now)\nand Valdosta&#8217;s Mud Creek WPCP (supposed to be being fixed now),\nboth with 11 violations.\nMoody is not surprising, due to sheer size, although disappointing.\nThe one that surprises me is the Boys Ranch.\n<p>\nOf course, number of violations is just one measure, but it is an interesting one.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Times provides an interactive map of water polluters. According to that map, derived from Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) data mostly from 2004 through 2007, the biggest offenders in Lowndes County by number of violations are: 62 Moody Air Force Base 42 Arizona Chemical Company 37 Georgia Sheriffs&#8217; Boys Ranch These are all [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[556,16,602,32,55],"tags":[6006,4919,8722,8701,6005,8791,7,1329,6007,1986,6,6004],"class_list":["post-2777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air","category-environment","category-hahira","category-pollution","category-water","tag-arizona-chemical-company","tag-environmental-protection-agency","tag-epa","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-sheriffs-boys-ranch","tag-hahira","tag-lowndes-county","tag-moody-air-force-base","tag-mud-creek","tag-new-york-times","tag-valdosta","tag-water-polluters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-IN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}