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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 26, 1966—5
• Stream Pollution
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dow and the summer before
last all the fish were killed.”
He said he had counted as
many as 50 dead fish of all
sizes at one spot. He added
that the newspapers had come
out to get the story and take
pictures, but had given the
event only the barest coverage
in the paper.
Horace Platt told the gather
ing that he has a cabin on the
Black Creek, and that right at
the headwaters of that creek
all sorts of rubbish is regular
ly dumped, and not too far
from there is a junkyard, he
said.
Lester Martin who lives on
the Muddy Creek said his fami
ly likes to swim, but “in July
and August the water is not
fit to go into.”
And iso 'the eye-witness
testimony on contamination
continued.
Although all at the indus
tries bordering the Muddy
Creek had been inn ted to at
tend this public meeting and
explain to the communiti
the actions taken by their
lespertiae films to preient
stieam pollution, only the
laigest company, Giace Mine,
sent a lepiesentative.
James H Runyon of Giace
Mine, uincli is a subsidiaiy
o,t Bethlehem Steel Co , said
that his company ig so con
cerned with air and water
pollution that it maintains
an entne depaitment tor this
puipose He explained that
the w'ater used in the min
ing opeiation is pumped
tioin undei ground souices.
Since it is slightly alkaline,
as opposed to the aud waste
W'ater trom a coal mine, it
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does not harm fish. flnuo’H
waste water goes Into the
Conestoga from a (mint h.
stream at a constant tale of
232 sallons per minute, 24
honis a dai, 31!.") tints a year.
So in this sense, he pointed
out, the ctunrpanj is adding
new water to the watershed
and aiding tonset\ation. He
said that (trace .Alines also
maintains a modern sewage
treatment plant. Every bit o£
their sewage is aeiated, set
tled, filtered, and chlorinat
ed before being released to
the creek at the late of SO
gallons per minute.
Runyon did point out that
many ot the fauns bordenng
the creek use a lot ot am
moniated teitihzeis “Some
times with modern agricul
tural piogiams you can hurt
your stieann too. Ram car
ries the ammonia to the
stiearns, and in hot weather
when oxyaen is normally
less in the water that added
ammonia can turther tie it
up so theies not sufficient
o.\vgen to support fish hte,”
he added
ChcViles H Kuder assist
ant regional samtaij engi
neer at the West Reading
Field Station of the Pennsvl
taii'.a Boaid ot Health, ex
plained his oigamizaition s in
teie-st and actnity in the
aiea ot s'tieam pollution,
Vt e ha\e si\ men to cov
er 12 counties which is not
enough peisonnel to police
the stiearns and pinpoint pol
lution We must lelj on lo
cal giou'pls to call the piob
lems to oui attention," the
engiineei said
He dehned the Clean.
Sti earns Law,, as fuithef
amended last August, as a
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