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County Supervisor Susan Golding is sponsoring a public meeting tonight on proposals by several agencies to cut sewage treatment standards, but a citizens’ group opposed to the plans is boycotting the event.
The meeting will feature representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Regional Water Quality Control Board and the Sierra Club. It begins at 6:30 p.m. at Cardiff Elementary School.
But leaders of People for a Clean Ocean--a coalition opposed to efforts by San Diego County, Escondido, Oceanside and Fallbrook to discharge dirtier waste water into the ocean--won’t be there.
In a letter urging group members to boycott the meeting, chairman Richard MacManus calls the meeting “a political sham” and “a gross attempt to appease the beach communities.” MacManus also said that the presence of EPA and Regional Water Quality Control Board members on the panel is “highly inappropriate” because an appeal is pending on a permit recently granted San Diego County and Escondido by the two agencies.
Golding said she could not understand the group’s logic in boycotting the meeting.
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