MATTHEW DUFFY WATER LICENSE #103850
3/28/23 & UPDATED FEB 2, 2025….
How come its taken the DEQ 5 months to contact me? Why now?
How come no one is working with me on any of these questions?
How come I have to clarify all this information myself?
Why isn’t any authoritative figure asking me more questions and following up?
Is anyone else investigating this illegal water or am I the only one doing it myself?
Isn’t OKC DEQ & EPA ARE LIABLE FOR THE INFORMATION IVE FOUND?
WOULD SOME METHOD OR SYSTEM BE COMPROMISED IF AN AUTHORITY DID CONTACT ME?
How come OKC knew I was pouring concrete at hefner and took photos of me then crosslands construction alleged to van eaton that I threatened to burn down lake hefner water plant so van eaton fired me about it? I have zero documentation from okc saying I couldn’t go back on city property. Is that a common thing when okc fires people? Was it verbally recorded on video? I do not remember. Where is the documentation on these allegations against me? I have my paperwork from when I was fired and it isn’t clarified anywhere. Also how would I be dumb enough to make that threat if all the buildings are concrete like many gov buildings it wont burn down. You cant burn down concrete. That’s stupid. Im smarter than that. I don’t remember saying it anywhere. And even if I did say it when am I ever going to get to speak in court about the illegal okc water? And when will these criminals be prosecuted for wilfull and gross negligence and what does government do when they’re incompetent just change the laws wow. ERRORS AND SEPARABILITY. I have never read dumber sentences in my life. Honestly literally. Not safe brains I care to be around. I feel unsafe even reading how these people write. I don’t even care how I write im just getting this stupid paper done.
1 OBSCURING EMPLOYEES RIGHT TO SEEK LEGAL ADVICE ABOUT WORK DENNIS PHILLIPS AND ROB MILLER
dennis Phillips said that as far as him and jim Crawford go they don’t have to answer to me for nothing. Then I found out from the eeoc and whd odol that its illegal to obscure employees right to legal information at work. Also at draper they tried to make operations not speak to mechanics which is also illegal against the law. It’s a very easy thing to google. I was also asking and referring to all the stupid testing they do at draper when 81% of it isn’t legally required. And the stupid chemical building books too. Dennis bluffed and made excuses that it was in certain deq regs on the 252’s laws that he sent me in a document I already read. I already had it highlighted proofread it again and asked him and that’s when he verbally told me he didn’t have to answer to me for nothing. Okc does that a lot they will never answer you in emails but lie to you verbally in person.
2 VIOLATING EMPLOYEES RIGHTS TO EXERCISE SAFETY ROB MILLER
After years of people ganging up on me trying to tell a 33-year-old man where to place a hose, management gave us 2 options of where to place the hose in written documentation. Rob kept harassing me for exercising my right to safety by placing the hoses on the hose saddle rack thing. Then he kept threatening with repercussions which is retaliation for violating my right to exercise safety as an employee. There are tons of emails on this over the course of years. It’s like they were all afraid just to ask me when it all started just because 1 old guy larry ross tripped on a shift or decided one day to have an opinion about the stupid thing when no one did for YEARS. No one had an opinion about the hoses until larry ross started whining about it. Then we all must suffer because of larry ross. The game used to be a lot better when no one cared but don’t worry I made my point directly to larry ross and William waller in front of a whole room of fools. To this day I am sure larry ross is still the only person with an opinion about the hoses. It creates work and isn’t convenient. Plus I know for a fact for many months I am the only one flushing and cleaning the presses anyways so what do other shifts care about hose placement for if im the only one doing all the work and its on scada with proof but no one answers me about it when I bring it up. William waller said in front of anyone remaining the room when he argued with me about it that I can argue this whith him and they’ll win it everytime. What are winning waller? In the bible there isn’t anything to win but christ. How does that represent management when in the same room we train for safety were getting told management is going to win everytime? Most people fled the room as they tried to address it but I gladly and calmly outquestioned all of them and let them think however they wanted to reveal theirselves. Oh also when they gang up on me to try and report trip hazards or other silly issues I went to the pipe gally at hefner and below in the mechanics shop and took lots of pictures extremely messy unorganized projects in the main ways of traffic. I was surprised to learn trip hazards aren’t really defined and the ada defines it as even anything over ¼ of an inch. So u can bet I sent waller a dozen pictures asking him to fix all his stuff and he did like immediately. Which was hilarious. But they never got back to me on that I guess they didn’t wanna follow up on the good communication.
3 EYE WASH STATION I wrote up many work orders on sap for eye wash stations that were broke because I was the only one cleaning the lime room and I didn’t wanna clean the lime room if the eye wash wasn’t working. After a while the work orders would disappear but they wouldn’t be fixed. Then one night a trucker got hit with quicklime in the face while they were offloading after dark and they had to escort him all the way into the ops lab bathroom just to clean his eyes out and rinse them. Its like 50 yards he had to be escorted. Idk which trucker it was but it was mccorkcle trucking and that may have been irreversible damage. What are truckers even doing offloading lime if the eye wash doesn’t work? Okc is liable for it I reported it. Reminder its in our sop to test the eye wash station before offloading. Were not supposed to accept truckloads if the eye wash doesn’t work. Also us lime is the top us stock with nividia on a yearly basis it’s the top returning stock out of all 5,555 us stocks. I know because I researched all of them on Charles schwab and I have traded 400k my 1st year. It’s a conflict of interest for completely untrained inexperienced trainees to be told to control the lime system when it has everything to do with stability on the citys largest asset the distribution and collection system. Anyone with okc can buy the stock and overdose the lime to increase the companies profits. Im also very suspicious of the companies profits because of this. And their profits went up very high after I was fired within the month. VERY FEW in management ever spoke accurately or correctly about the lime system. CHIEF DAN PALMER AND OPERATOR MAX SANDERS WERE ABOUT THE ONLY 2. (RETIRED PENSIONERS)… MANAGEMENT don’t know where to put the ph and the mixing energy and ferric dosage too. They never had chemical logs pursuant to npdwr 40 CFR 141.87(a)(2)(ii)(B) until I addressed the issue. They round ph which is still illegal, misappropriate for funding, offers low resolution graphs, lower percent confidence intervals and goes against scientific classes ican recall from college on rounding in scientific notation. Their spreadsheet labels are ambiguous and also illegal against water law. And their “targets” are also illegal and largely inaccurate.
4 HEFNER LIME BAGHOUSE AND ACID CLEANER
water law says to go by the manuals. Deq reg 252.631.3.1 Everyone neglects the lime equipment at hefner because no one will work on the equipment or near the dust. Me I don’t care you can take 20 grams in a day before it might kill you with an ld50% chance. Anyways no one cleans the equipment with citric acid like it says to in the manuals and they don’t clear the offline troughs and empty them out and I also am pretty sure no one is servicing the baghouse because they usually remove all of them which is against the clean air act. You will see anytime theyre offloading lime it blows everywhere. There are contractors and school nearby its wrong its unacceptable. We serviced baghouse filters at overholser water plant. I serviced them in water transfer in the oilfield in big water lines. Its not hard . theyre only doing it because theyre fooling the deq. Are yall going to actually go up there and see that theyre in service? I do go up there a lot because I like the view and its in my job description to inspect a lot of things and its in water law to to identify issues in treatment like 70 times as ive said. Theyre just big filter socks.
5 ASBESTOS
I requested many times to get an asbestos test done from the safety guy taylor Dalrymple and okc never got the dang test done and I’ve never seen results. I read from osha employees have the right to see the results I am not going to continue to keep cleaning a bunch of dust that no employees haven’t cleaned any building in decades for when the stuff may have asbestos in it. I can run the cheap test myself and buy a kit online but taylor Dalrymple never answers me and keeps blowing me off and hiding. He also lies to me verbally and wont answer me in email or on paper. He also takes the stance that its not that big of a deal. Its like he doesn’t even care about the appearance of safety and downplays it. Taylors demeanor is really partial in favor to the management probably just to fit in like most smurfs everywhere I have worked. In hindsight I guess I still could have tested for asbestos myself and sent the result to taylor since he is such a terrible safety guy. He cant provide for the only operator to stabilize water when he makes probably 80 – 100k a year. What a great leader he is not. They are still unknown to this day. Which is an ongoing violation of okc employees rights. They wouldn’t give me the test or the results that’s illegal. Also employees have right o witness conduct of testing. Because you can bet I don’t buy words unless it’s the word of God. Isaiah 2:22 says not to trust man anyways.
6 UNPERMITTED DISCHARGES RECOVERY TRANSFER PUMPS TO MANHOLES in some of my last few months when it was getn cooler out okc mechanics at hefner and probably management knew about pumping water from the lagoons to the manhole covers into the sewage or stormwater. Idk what it was going to but here are the coordinates. I do believe they needed to have a permit and that it was an unpermitted operation because the chiefs were trying to act all hush about it and its because they keep recirculating too much recovery water they cant get rid of water from the lagoons. Without fetching coordinates its one of the stormwater manholes at the lagoons near the middle. Its not legal for water plants to illegal discharge into watersheds with questionable water quality especially if it has chlorine. Bluff creek is already in a 303d impaired water registry for ecoli. I believe it was this manhole here 35.583093, -97.592927. it’s the manhole on the southwest lagoon on the south side of it. Its funny to me this was occurring because it is desperate measure or aid to get rid of all their high recovery rates from the sludge facility. Which gets exponentially worse everyday. Me I only like to get 1% better everyday to stay ahead of the system and remain proactive.
7 RETALLIATION FOR EMPLOYEES EXERCISING RIGHTS TO SAFETY ROB MILLER as stated before rob miller on multiple days and weeks especially when phillip martin was gone would run a game on me and scream and yell at me for not placing a hose where he wanted it when we have been given 2 options. ROB MILLER BLATANTLY TOLD ME HE DIDN’T CARE THAT HE IS VIOLATING MY RIGHTS TO EXERCISE SAFETY.
8 40 ECFR 141.33 RECORDS MAINTENANCE OKC MANAGEMENT DEQ EPA OPEN RECORDS ACT CLEAN WATER ACT
Okc doesn’t have 10 years of ct qaqc check stanards on file for the ozone system
Okc doesn’t run the qaqc check standards on the ozone system which is illegal and they cant prove safe drinking water disinfection to 1.4 million affected residents. Okc water is illegal and undisinfected. The results are based on the check standards. If they don’t run the check standards it invalidates all the results. 252.631.3.1 also says to follow the manuals in the lab. The ozone determination sm4500 o3 for ozone says to run the check standards and record its values. They don’t have any of the values on file for ten years and all gov agencies are liable. There is open records act that aloows us to view these results. They do not answer me when I asked for this and said they don’t have to answer me that because these are interrogatives that wont be answered in a court of law. Whistleblower protection. Employee immunity. Os27a.
9 OKDEQ 252:631-3-1. manuals okc mgmt ozone check standards and febs in auto
Water law is to go by owners manuals and procedures. Sm4500 o3 says to test the ozone check standard and okc doesn’t do it and its nowhere on their forms. Its been addressed for years now. Also draper has a control narrative on how to operate the febs in auto. I also have the control narrative. It should be in drapers big 3” folder on the sludge facility rfps and submittals for the project and warranties book. The FEBS are supposed to operate in auto with 1 feb on in low flow mode. There are reasons for this from epa force main design regs to prevent solids from settling. The problem is a lot of solids settle in the febs at draper and dennis Phillips did it intentionally to disprove “engineers” when he clearly wasn’t applying the epa force main design reg of
exceeding >2fps = 408(gpm/diameter inch ^2)…. there was a huge 20 thousand dollar chemical spill at draper and a lot of it went into the drinking water back when I was employed there and I wasn’t at all surprised it happened I wrote a whole page very small of nearly 20 things okc could have done about it to to prevent it back then, now and in the future but they still never applied any of it in my time so I doubt theyre doing it now that ive left and when I check on satellite it still doesn’t appear to be operating correctly. Because there are 2 online. If u check the math and solve for fps 1 feb will take 7.5MGD which is 15MGD total with 2 of them on and also 10% of the draper water treatment capacity of 150MGD hmm isn’t that convenient its almost like an ENGINEER designed it that way and I didnt have to ask any questions because I applied my intelligence by inferring in the field whats good. It all checks out. I answered my own questions myself. Theres just so many meters and equipment that we touch its literally the law to kno what we are operating. No one taught me this in my training I self taught myself a lot of this info and have many libraries digitally of the equipment we operate. Also its good to have a Fujitsu 200 ppm vertical document scanner for digitizing this info into a pdf searchable format. And I also like to use unique functions on excel to become familiar with the language.
10. 252:631-3-11. Operating records & reports (b) Records. Ozone check std
Okc cant prove safe drinking water because they don’t do the ct check standards.
Law says theyre supposed to have check standards on record for 10 years
Law says to go by the manuals and lab procedures
They don’t follow the law or the lab procedure
The sop they transcribed is illegal and got lost in translation it isn’t a “should” thing to do
Law is shall and we have to abide by it
There isn’t anyone doing this if okc doesn’t do this they cant prove safe drinking water disinfection
They also fail a lot of cts and rerun the tests just to pass and some water tests are supposed to be recorded on the first draw
Okc is biased because were in house and certified for ourselves of course theyre saying they passed all the tests
Hefner also doesn’t run cts at peak hourly flow which is also falsification. Its misrepresentation. 40 CFR 141.74(b)(3)(iii) (iii) The disinfectant contact time(s) (“T”) must be determined for each day during peak hourly flow.
11 EPA NPDWR chloramines MRDLG 4.0 ppm chiefs
Chiefs went over the mrdlg of 4ppm which is a 1000 page document arbitrated by the feds on how to determine what safe levels of drinking water chemicals and dosages are. Okc is just neglecting all of the feds work that is illegal and against the law and I tell the chiefs and I tell the shift supervisors to tell the chiefs but the chiefs just say oh better hot than not and just play it down like its not that big of a deal when it is its illegal. Where is the sense of urgency. I also found decades old read and sign memos on it from bosses before my time. I believe it was like 13% of the time one year that I sampled.
12 40 CFR 141.533 ct peak hourly flow calc chiefs
Again water law says to run the cts at peak hourly flow but the chiefs do not sometimes they intentionally run the low flows just to help in passing the tests better because they keep failing cts a lot of times theyre failing cts because theyre mismanaging solids at the sludge facility which gets recovered and recirculated and sent back to the water plant which screws up treatment. And its hilarious to me every time because ive known for months and quarters that they have been over 58% inaccurately operating constantly every day instead of getting in sync with the flow and the work of solids which I subscribed to myself every day and made for my own logs and graphs and charts proactively after finishing my job. I also like to pump a little faster than this rate to keep the solids content down. There isn’t enough pumpage at hefner for the exact same presses that are at draper. Its really important to stay ahead. Its an extremely slow process.
13 1910.22.a.1. osha uncovered drains hoses pipe galley and many buildings
This law isn’t but ½ a page but I got so many “shift supervisors” in trouble over the deal they made nearly 20 of us take a class and spent what $3800 on 8 hours and a teacher for a law that is ½ a page wow. I sure stimulated that economy. Your welcome metrotech utilities university that I never graduated because why would I already have a degree ive never used and management isn’t ever going to listen. I was gonna try and finish engineering but theis whole illegal water plant this is really obnoxious.
14 §27A-2-4-305 willful falsification and revocation of accreditation okc mgmt kelli mcdowell
Kelli mcdowell said it herself if we want to break water law that is her prerogative.
I don’t even know what a prerogative is and I hate the song. Id rather talk like the western redneck that I am and just use noun verbs. Keep it simple. She is gross and negligent. Everyone speaks about gossip and says stuff like throwing kelli a scapegoat or a sacrificial offering to her. And it makes me sick that if jeff bolden is her boss then what does he look to her for in meetings? Is mcdowell some kind of kingpin? If I were jeff bolden I would know how to operate my water plant and I wouldn’t look to kelli for word.
15 Open Records Act Title 51 O.S. Sections 24A.1.- 24A.30 okc
Okc says they don’t have to answer to me because my questions are “interrogatives” and are questions that would be asked in a court of law. This is not in congruence with open records act. Or clean water act. Npdwr. I just thought that the law says okc is supposed to have 10 years of cts records on file. What are they going to say next what kind of silly excuse are they going to come up with?
16 252:730-1-4. test procedures okc deq mgmt.
All methods of sample collection, preservation, and analysis used in applying any of the standards shall be in accordance with Part 136 ( 40 CFR Part 136) or other procedures approved by DEQ …Probably some state law that reiterates it again ur supposed to follow these rules and okc is not following them. If its another written law then it is another violation that is being broken. I don’t like repetitive redundant laws just to charge people with multiple counts for basically the same thing but its written many times so here I am sharing it. Okc does this with their own policy just to act all hard. Its bluffing and indicative of an inconfident language. deq also has the right to revoke accreditation. Either turn off okc water or revoke their accreditation. I would im not afraid. Oh also the option to at least put out boil order notices. Deq isn’t exercising full authority to its fullest extent. I called 911 on it. Its an ongoing emergency. At least put out a boil order until the water is compliant again under my watch since no one else knows how to. I have too many laws to defend myself and I have Oklahoma immunity for reporting environmental crimes pursuant to os27a.
17 252:730-1-6 error correction deq mgmt.
Section 252:730-1-6 - Errors and separability(a) Errors resulting from inadequate and erroneous data or human or clerical oversight will be subject to correction by the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality.
(b) The discovery of such errors does not render the remaining and unaffected Standards invalid.(c) If any provision of these Standards, or the application of any provision of these Standards to any person or circumstances is held to be invalid, the application of such provisions to other persons and circumstances and the remainder of the Standards shall not be affected thereby. Okla. Admin. Code § 252:730-1-6Adopted by Oklahoma Register, Volume 40, Issue 6, December 1, 2022, eff. 10/25/2022 (emergency)Adopted by Oklahoma Register, Volume 40, Issue 24, September 1, 2023, eff. 9/15/2023.
After reading this again what about AFFECTED incorrect standards? Because that’s what I have and its what theyre changing. In the wqmac and house bills. It is the responsibility of the deq to correct errors. That doesn’t mean walk around “suggesting” things. Deq has to lay down the law or who will? Me. What am I supposed to do citizens arrest my own coworkers and bosses at work? Oklahoma is citizen’s arrest. Im real disappointed I expected better behavior. Im sick and tired of being the leader everywhere I work for 15 years when I spent 15 years just to even be here and get pertinent experience with my stupid degree. I have an illegal “engineering” degree pursuant to ok475.1.2&20 it’s a $2000 fine to solicit engineering if ur not abet accredited as defined by the state. Colleges do it they loosely abuse the word and employers unknowingly do it too. Ive found so many websites that also do it and it is so common I cant even keep up with the word anymore to keep reporting to all these state boards that are tired of hearing from me.
18 wrongful termination. I cant even google this stupid law / statute its so stupid. EEOC. I deserve my job back. And they deserve to go to jail. There should be a prison in Oklahoma city supplied by Oklahoma city water. That will make people feel welcome when they enter for breaking water laws. I don’t ever want to breathe anywhere near them again. Not one of them. Id hire more people with associates degrees at least or from osu okc. That’s where I should have went to school. Also okc hired a 3rd party hr consulting website for particular positions such as the ocre position but I haven’t found any of those high paying job titles or names on the fiscal payroll. So who got them and what are they paid? Also deputy utilities director. I believe they created these 3rd party affiliates to claim to remove bias but I am sure they are all still a bunch of sellouts. Doj had a 45 pg document that got a case on the day I was fired. It was probably more of my reporting. The 3rd party okc is using is CPS HR CONSULTING. We need access to these pay records and the public also needs information on the job descriptions. The employees also need public access to their job because there is a lot of bombardment of non-job descriptive requests from management way too often working here.
19 40 CFR 141.2 identify (CPE)” disruptive jeff bolden
Jeff bolden called me disruptive to okc. So then I emailed to him asking what his definition of disruptive is because mine stems from the water law in 40 ecfr 141 that tell ALL OF US to participate in the CPE comprehensive performance evaluation. He has never said anything back to me to this day. then I sent his emails to chris browning probably the top paid engineer in the state and he never said anything to me either. Im not sorry men I’m just trying to fit in with the laws of water. So they fired me. I don’t like them. They changed face on me but im still me. Any operator can participate in the sanitary surveys open to public meetings and somprehensive performance evaluations and submittals of candidates of the new contaminants every 4 or 5 years that the epa adds.
20 zop directive 2-3ppm vs sds & nsf mcl determination zinc 2ppm
Dustin segraves has a directive I sent the photo it has a number. Anyways segraves put out a directive that had like 2 – 3 ppm on the zop which again is outside of the nsf practical and or max dosages/ nsf national sanitation foundation says like 70 times in one link to keep zinc levels below 2ppm for detrimental health effects. As an operator I don’t need zop but it is clearly effective. However much it dissipates throughout the system is the only amount I would care to dose. I also identified sensitivity issues with the zop drawdown tube and sent it to management. The problem is its such a small drawdown the chiefs make all the operators rerun the test all the time when we operators have already rerun it like more times than we care to tell them. Because operators cant fudge the results for them. So they finally go out and reset the damn thing. But they only do a 1-minute drawdown when it needs to be for at least 3 minutes. Because it is too small of a volume and too deviant with little precision. To increase the accuracy and precision you have to draw it down for longer in order to dial it in more precisely. The zop also does not really dissipate that much in the system. I would probably dose it near 1 ppm maybe 0.5 ppm or even 0.3ppm. It doesn’t even need to be read but half the time or any decimal amount of time. It’s a decimated system in my mind. Not a dosage exceeding the nsf mcls. Im still researching the levels of zinc the nsf is claiming and I believe it has to do a lot with the mass of zinc itself vs the mass of the whole chemical. There are varying ranges of max doses on the web results page of water chemicals and there are also different strengths involved. I don’t remember what okcs was but were supposed to know it and show it and beware of it. Its even in the npdwr to know the strengths of the chemical. At all3 water plants it could be found but wasn’t readily applied everyday on dosage calculators. I want proof that okcs dosage of the zn residual at injection and poe point of entry is below the nsf max recommended level of not going over 2ppm on the zinc. And I do not belive we should be dosing above the 2 at a 3ppm.
21 overdosing anionic polymer tmb925e draper sludge facility
I read all the project draftings and submittals for the manuals on the sludge facility which I was hired for. ABOUT 500 PAGES
When I found the sds for dosing chemical I learned that draper was overdosing at 10ppm on the tmb 925e
I believe I also sent dennis an email because he never emailed me back that is one of those moves where he comes to u in person
By the time he ran into me I had just shut the door and finished turning it down
He asked if I did turn it down and I said sure enough. I put it down to like idk 5ppm or 4 idk. Kept it below 10 though.
Im sure there are laws somewhere for obeying sds. Im sure its like felonious if you don’t that’s just like reading any chemical label you have to comply with it or it says you breaking felonious laws or sumn. It’s the same as the insecticide bottle says or herbicides. They say it’s a felony and pinesol too to not operate outside of accordance with the label.
22 141.174b all 3 water plants 9 bosses never knew
I worked 3 water plants and all 3 turbidimeters broke on the cfe
Hefner doesn’t actually have a cfe which is also illegal from the swtr surface water treatment rules because it says in it ur supposed to have a cfe but hefner does not. Anyways I argued / informed with 9 bosses at all 3 water plants because I knew immediately where to look for the law I presented it to my chiefs so they wouldn’t panic and overwork us freaking out on a night shift and panicking and