If you are serious about fighting fascism, call for a general strike by the working class.

, you can write to—
-Alyssa Yanochko, Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, at [email protected]., Scott Tucker, Superintendent, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, at [email protected]. and -You could also write to The Homestead at [email protected] /

National Lakeshore is a treasured national resource. It’s to be respected.
Much more information about all of this is available at HomesteadSewage.org. A citizens group known as Drifters United (also known as the Sewage Squad or the Poo Patrol) has formed to help address the problem

just don’t like the resort or its owner. Please be clear—That’s not what this is about. We just don’t want anyone using National Park lands for their sewage disposal. You and I dispose of our sewage legally and responsibly. The Homestead can do the same. Sleeping Bear Dunes

the same people who mistakenly initially approved this situation. Now there are new people in place, and it’s hoped that they will take a fresh, unbiased look at things.

People sometimes assume that anyone who opposes anything The Homestead does,

Now is the time when the five-year permit required by the state is up for renewal. In the past, the personnel who issued these permits have been reluctant to admit to this problem or to address it. They were largely

Thus, that area of our National Lakeshore has had to be posted with warning signs, and is lost to public use. Approximately ten acres is effectively lost.

There are alternatives, such as trickle irrigation or batch reactors. These, however, would of course cost money.

That is actually a fine way of disposing of wastewater, but the problem is that facilities of that sort are normally isolated by buffer zones. Here it is not. Thus, some of the spray blows into the park. Some of it becomes aerosolized (turns to mist), and “drifts” farther into the park.