Environmental Protection Division Head Reacts to Dirty Dozen Report

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The head of the state’s Environmental Protection Division is taking issue with a dirty dozen list released yesterday to highlight the worst offenses to the state’s waterways.

The Ogeechee River was number one on the Georgia Water Coalition’s Dirty Dozen list for the second year in a row. The river was the site of a massive fish kill last year that was blamed on discharge from a textile manufacturer. Months later, the coalition says not much has changed because the pollution continues. But Jud Turner, the director of Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division says the coalition is grossly mischaracterizing the situation.