B—Lancaster Farming. Saturday* April 27.1968
Less Costly Ways To Conserve
Water Proposed By Grange
Leu costly and more feasible
ways for conserving water in the
Potomac River Basin were pro
posed today by the Grange in
four states, including Pennsyl
vania. and the National Grange
in opposition to a series of big
impounding dams as proposed
by the U.S, Army Corps of En
gineers,
John W. Scott, master of the
Pennsylvania State Grange, said
the Grange is vitally concerned
in the Potomac River Basin pro
posals because of possible heavy
sacrifice of valuable farm lands
and out of regard for the “hun
dreds of people who would be
dispossessed of homes and
means of livelihood and forced
to relocate at great personal
loss."
In Pennsylvania, he explained,
the Potomac proposals would
affect principally Franklin and
Fulton counties. Other states in
volved are Maryland, Virginia,
and West Virginia. Enough wa
ter. he contended, could be tak
en from the river estuary to sat
isfy the needs of the whole Wash
ington metropolitan area, prin
cipal beneficiary of the basin
plan.
Pollution control, Scott point
ed out, is of prime importance
and could be achieved through
federal aid to up-stream com
munities for the development of
adequate local sanitation sys
tems He added; "If Germany
can clean up the Rhine, then we
can and should clean up our
streams, the Potomac included ”
• Water out of a polluted
stream, whether for municipal,
industrial or recreational use,’,’
he continued, “is not a desirable
objective, especially with a high
price tag attached,
“Moreover, large dams should
he built only after completion of
a network of smaller dams on
headwater streams Otherwise
silting would destroy the im-
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pounding capacity of the big
dams in about two decades.
Headwater dams would have
more recreational value than
large dams that are subject to'
seasonal draw-downs. Homesite
developments would be minimal
along big dams since during pe
riods of draw-down they tend to
become mud flats useful only as
breeding places for mosquitoes.
“High cost of large dams and
loss of taxable property would
result in a double loss in tax rev
enue that could be offset by
keeping most of the headwater
storage area in private or semi
private ownership with public
access to the lakes and ponds.”
• Packers
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most of the persons engaged in
these transactions
Campbell listed the five basic
programs as follows:
Fair, competitive marketing;
Honest weights;
Financial protection;
Reasonable services and facili
ties at public livestock markets
at reasonable rates, and
Reparations.
“In the last fiscal year,” the
adminstrator said, “we receiv
ed 6,200 complaints. The great
maj’ority of these were settled
informally. Only 249 formal ac
tions were brought alleging vio
lations of the Act We obtained
settlements resulting m pay
ment of S 2 5 million to 539 of
the complainants,” he said.
Campbell said they find about
12 1/2 percent of their checks
come up with wrong weights.
• Farm Calendar
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