{"id":10433,"date":"2025-10-21T19:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/10433\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:54:16","slug":"demand-action-over-threats-to-environment-saucon-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/10433\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand Action Over Threats to Environment \u2013 Saucon Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Citizens: With <a href=\"https:\/\/sauconsource.com\/2025\/10\/15\/northampton-county-seeks-poll-workers-for-nov-4-election\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Nov. 4 election<\/a> approaching, we must become informed.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulture Crisis<\/p>\n<p>In Lower Saucon Township, these birds roost on our homes and on playground equipment.\u00a0According to the Department of Agriculture, vultures pose serious health risks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The aviation safety threat is alarming. The Federal Aviation Administration reports that vulture-aircraft collisions cost over $4 million annually in damages.<\/p>\n<p>PFAs: The \u201cForever Chemicals\u201d in Our Air<\/p>\n<p>Landfills release significant amounts of PFAS\u2014\u201dforever chemicals\u201d\u2014into the air through gas emissions.\u00a0PFAS enter landfills through everyday products and escape not just through treated leachate but also through untreated gas \u201cburps\u201d from decomposing waste. The annual amount of PFAS leaving landfills through gas emissions can equal or exceed the amount in liquid runoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our Watershed Under Assault<\/p>\n<p>The Lehigh River watershed ranks second nationally for reproductive toxins released and 30th for cancer-causing chemical releases.<\/p>\n<p>A Pattern of Violations<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania DEP records document repeated violations at the Bethlehem Landfill. When regulatory violations become routine, enforcement has failed.<\/p>\n<p>Our Call to Action<\/p>\n<p>Report odors and concerns to PA DEP\u2019s complaint hotline at 866-255-5158.<\/p>\n<p>The convergence of vulture infestations, PFAS contamination and watershed pollution isn\u2019t coincidence. Our environment and our health depend on it.<\/p>\n<p>Russ Sutton<br \/>Lower Saucon Township<\/p>\n<p>Letters and op-eds about local topics of general interest are published at the discretion of the editor.\u00a0Opinions shared on our community platform are solely those of the author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear Citizens: With the Nov. 4 election approaching, we must become informed. The Vulture Crisis In Lower Saucon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,602,1131,8422,2776,8423,205,8424,8425,8426,8427],"class_list":{"0":"post-10433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-dep","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-landfill","14":"tag-lehigh-river","15":"tag-letter","16":"tag-lower-saucon-township","17":"tag-odors","18":"tag-pfas","19":"tag-vultures","20":"tag-watershed"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}