EPA eyes poor performance of waste treatment plants

IF people were cattle, Ireland would be awash in pollution from public waste water treatment plants and private house septic tanks.

But it takes 20 to 40 humans to produce as much as one dairy cow's 20 pounds of manure per day.

So pollution from agriculture gets priority at the Environmental Protection Agency, despite the poor performance of and overloading of waste-water treatment plants, storm water overflows, and septic tanks which has been detected by the Agency.