Casper Star Tribune Opinion: Citizens were left out of E. coli decision

“Raise your hand if you knew about the state’s new E. coli plan before it was finalized. The Casper Star-Tribune recently reported that the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, in one broad stroke, reclassified more than 76 percent of Wyoming’s streams from primary to secondary contact recreation. This means that roughly 88,000 stream miles are now allowed to have five times as much E. coli in them after very little public input from the people that use them most.

This sweeping reclassification was years in the making, but the fact is, almost none of us knew anything about it.”

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