As you know from earlier reports, Homestead Air Force Base has plans for a commercial airport that could potentially have a devastating impact on Biscayne and Everglades National Parks. We want your voices to be heard. Please take the time to write or E-mail your comments to the National Park Service. We don't watn to hear aircraft noise and the effects they will have on this important National Park. An issue that directly impacts South Florida residents is a widely used waste disposal method called underground injection.
Injection wells send waste underground into drinking water supplies.
Those who use underground injection for disposal of hazardous, industrial, radioactive, and municipal wastes assume that the wastes stay underground, never posting a threat to people's health. In fact, this practice threatens drinking water and other natural resources, such as near shore coral reef systems and shellfish habitats. One goal of the SDWA relating to underground injection is to prevent endangerment of underground sources of drinking water. It is extremely difficult and costly to clean up underground contamination. It also runs contrary to our efforts to prevent pollution of our drinking water sources.