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On 11/15/04, we received an email message (below) concerning CLM employees pouring green paint into the bath outflow stream, which goes straight to the wetlands. When we investigated the grate, we found layered amounts of every color of paint being used on the property. CLM cleaned the grate, and then claimed a single diluted incident of wash water.

2/18/05 BLM Final Investigation Report
1/05 BLM Cites CLM for Paint Pollution  
11/27/04 CLM Disposes of Evidence, Polluting Again  
12/3/04 Robin Flinchum Article
  
Our 12/4 Letter to the Editor
    
Our 12/6 Letter to Water Control Agencies
    
Download EPA Letter PDF
   
Download 1 pg Report with photos   1.7 MG  PDF

Please see Contacts for addresses to send comments.

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Grate location between  bath houses (base of palm, steam escaping), in full view of office.   

11/15/04 Email message from Donna Ellis, Escapees RV Club member: "I just wanted to tell you something that friends [Robin Boye and Don Connor] of ours witnessed last weekend.  They had bathed at the baths, and were sitting there watching one of the CLM guys spray painting the metal ends of the benches with green enamel.  Then, while they sat and watched, as the CLM guy finished the bench, he took the entire rest of the can of green enamel, and walked over and poured it down the drain in front of the baths, which drains into Grimshaw [Lake]!!!!  They were horrified, and I can't seem to forget it, either..." CAPTURED_2004_11_24_00001.JPG (743464 bytes)
 

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