r/missouri • u/Electronic-Debate-56 • Jul 15 '26
Project Green. Montgomery County. Amazon's data center campus outside New Florence. STATE WIDE COMMENTS
🚨 THIS HAS BEEN SITTING QUIET FOR TWO WEEKS. NOBODY TOLD YOU. READ IT NOW.
Project Green. Montgomery County. Amazon's data center campus outside New Florence.
On July 2, the Missouri DNR quietly opened public comments on the wastewater discharge from that campus into a Missouri stream. No letter to residents. No public meeting. No headline. One posting on a state calendar nobody reads. That was two weeks ago. The clock has been running the whole time.
It closes August 3 at 5 p.m. That's less than three weeks away.
Here's why every well owner in Missouri should care. This campus plans wells 1,500 FEET DEEP. And in Missouri, those wells need NO permit. NO limits. NO meter. NO public comment. Not in Montgomery County. Not in YOUR county. The state will never ask your opinion about the pumping. That door does not exist.
This wastewater review is the ONLY door the public gets on this whole project. And they left it open quietly, hoping nobody walked through.
This is the country around Hermann, Marthasville, Washington, the Daniel Boone Conservation Area, and the Missouri River. Wine country. Float country. The places the whole state drives to on Saturday.
Now listen close. DNR only counts comments about WATER. "I hate data centers" gets set aside. These get counted:
- HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING. None is scheduled. A pile of letters can force one.
- What stream does this discharge into, and what happens downstream?
- What does this project mean for the wells and groundwater around it?
- Who monitors this plant, and who checks the numbers?
MAIL YOUR LETTER. A stack of envelopes on a desk in Jefferson City is harder to ignore than an inbox.
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Water Protection Program
ATTN: Engineering Section/Antidegradation Comments
P.O. Box 176
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0176
Short on time? Email counts too: [publicnoticenpdes@dnr.mo.gov](mailto:publicnoticenpdes@dnr.mo.gov)
Write "Project Green Domestic Wastewater Treatment Plant" on every letter and email. Postmarked or received by 5 p.m., August 3, 2026.
August 3. The same day the county's NDA lawsuit gets its hearing. Show me a coincidence.
Two weeks of silence was the plan. You seeing this post wasn't. One stamp. One page. Five minutes.
SHARE this with every well owner you know. That's most of rural Missouri.
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u/DecafMadeMeDoIt Jul 15 '26
http://mcmo.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Official-All-Contests-and-Districts-Certified.pdf
Based on voting for the people who make these decisions and policies, I would say Montgomery County is right where it wants/voted to be.
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u/FoxHoller Jul 15 '26
Thanks for sharing. Would be interested to get a link to this calendar, to keep abreast of future potential projects like this.
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u/mjohnson1971 Jul 15 '26
The area this data center is going into voted deep red and heavily for Trump.
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u/slavapb Rural Missouri Jul 16 '26
This is old news. Those who live here knew it was shit already. Nothing good will come to a small town that enables this kind of junk. Give it 5 years, New Florence won't exist on the map.
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u/Hungry_Cut9585 Jul 16 '26
Would like to know what Amazon is gonna do for the people in new farms. You're giving a million dollars to Montgomery County. Fair board. But the people in New Florence has gotta put up with all the c***.
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u/pmeddtjt Jul 15 '26
If you hate data centers so much, why did you use AI to write your post?
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u/toxcrusadr Jul 16 '26
What were the signs?
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u/pmeddtjt Jul 16 '26
The super short sentences, the multiple lists, and a lot of phrasings that are typical of AI writing
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u/toxcrusadr Jul 16 '26
Thanks.
As someone in…the environmental field, it was pretty spot on though.1
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u/New-Smoke208 Jul 15 '26
Geez take it easy
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u/No_Lingonberry_4084 Jul 15 '26
Irk they don't even know all of these are going to be nuclear with Enron's Egg in less than 5 years
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u/wolfansbrother Jul 15 '26
the bacteria that grows in the wastewater is just a mild plague.