Just two months ago, commissioners voted overwhelmingly to deny the five-year waiver from secondary treatment levels at the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant. The facility processes sewage from more than 2.2 million people in and outside the city's limits.
The commission's reversal saves San Diego from having to retrofit the facility at a price of up to $1.5 billion. The last major step is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which already has granted a preliminary waiver.
San Diego is the only city in California that hasn't committed to meet the secondary treatment level for discharges to the ocean."
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/oct/08/wastewater-plant-gets-exemption/?metro&zIndex=179167
This article was talking about how San Diego has been exempt from the pollution standards for a third time now. The votes were 8-4 so they won by a large amount. The article said that we were the only city in California that hasn't agreed to these standards and there are many people that are upset about it.
The article could have included more opinions from the other people that had voted rather than the one woman that they talked too. It says that they changed their mind but it doesnt really say why they did.. so maybe they could have gone a little deeper into the reasoning for why they changed their minds.
For a follow up article, it could say the reasons for why they changed their minds and if they were going to go further into changing the votes. At the end of this article they say that they might do something so San Diego wont be exempt from the standards. Maybe opinions from the opposing side could be used as well... maybe some quotes from the opposing view points.
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