10—'Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 26, 1966 Wayne ait reach, county
—- ■ - - conservationist, told the nu
• Stream Pollution . f unwound gt y
Water pollution, Kuder said , * , , , Buy '• l “ aus
(Continued from Page 8) the Henl , ffi Dept . wou , ld i lke try): In agriculture we have
law primarily designed to to ab , oHgh m laigoons . ~N o our own problems.”
€oice coal mines to treat acid i ag . oo , n can be c i as ed 100 per- He stated that between 4
mine-drainage water before - cent and m , ay contaminate and 20 tons of soil per acre
11 ,!L du 7 e i nt ,e ® tr ® ams - the underground water snip- P er year is lost from our
The frothing and foam- f or mlleg aroulld) especi- farm® because the Helds are
Ing in streams la caused by a , )ly - n a ]i niestone area with “untreated.” This soil pro r
S ,^ d ’ a . nd its underground caves and one of the sources of
ad'ded that tma will contin- fi)g SureS( »» sitream pollution, sediment,
ue to be a problem until we Kuder said that, although Mhrescth said. Silt destroys
have a blo-degradabte deter- Stream pollution can be spawning beds and coats the
gent on the market in quan- cle , ared UT , re adily once the S' llll ® of fish. Much of it (silt);
tity. It (detergent) is not sfliUrce of contamination ’ls continues 'downstream and”
generally harmful, but it will rem , ovedi underground water, eventually clogs our chan
cause foaming if present in once po .nuted, may remain nell s and harbors, the oonser
anvounts as small as X to 1.5 so for 50 . 10 () years. In fa'ct, vatiomst said,
parts per million. We can t he added> •'. a b, o ut half of the iMaresah Was asked 'what
pinpoint fishkill or pollution pfr lv , a , te W ells in Lancaster farmer's in the Maitind'ale
due to detergent.” County are probably contain- area couild do to stop pollu-
The smaller the stream, mated by the owner’s or t' lo ' n o X their streams,
the higher percent treatment neighbor’s sewage.” , “ If there is enough inter.
needed. Kuder said after ex- He d * fined «
naming the process of com- anv fore substance whose
plete sewage treatment In preseto ce renders a stream
terms of costs, it would be uncl(ten to the extent that
prohibitive to remove the tbe „- ater becomes hamful
last 8-10 percent of pnllu- t , O the health af l 6 or
tion go,ng into streams, he
estimated. * 1 I
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