14—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. June 28.1969
A View From The Governor's Office
By Gov. Raymond P. Shafer
Pennsylvania soon will become mine drainage into ultra pure
the site of the world's fitst facil- water.
ity for conveiling extremelj cor- The plant will be built by
icsive stream polluting acid Westinghouse Electiic Corpora-
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It’s a great feeling to know that you are the
master of your farmlands . . . that when you
treat your soil right, it will treat you right
Liming is one of the most important factors in
keeping your soil in the highest productive
range. By raising the pH from a level below
6.0 to 6.5 or higher, you can expect to harvest
7 more bushels of wheat per acre, with similar
increases for all other forage and cash crops.
MARTIN’S LIMESTONE
Blue Ball, Pa. 354-4125 Gap, Pa. 442-4148
Why I took my
loan business
to the Key Bank
That’s where they talk my language.
There’s Stanley Musselman in the
agricultural loan department. He
knows farming as well as I do. He
gave me some good advice on plan
ning for profitable management
even had some ideas on how I could
improve my operation. The cost of
my loan was detailed so that I had a
clear understanding of where I was
headed financially. I recommend the
Key Bank to get the best farm man
agementadvice and any loan needed
to improve your farming operation.
Just ask for Stanley Musselman.
LANCASTER COUNTY FARMERS national
MEMBER F.D4.C.
tlon and will be capable of treat
ing five million gallons of acid
water now (lowing daily Into the
Susquehanna River. A site near
Wilkes-Barre was selected be
cause of both the large quantity
and extremely poor quality of
the abandoned mine drainage
water in that region.
This plant signifies a new con
cept in mine drainage abatement
because it places the cost of
treatment on a pay-as-you-go bas
is through sale of the water
rather than placing the burden
on the taxpayers.
Perhaps equally important is
the fact that the ultra-pure water
produced will be a high quality
product that will not only help
pay for its operation but can be
used to attract new industues to
this area.
Pharmaceutical, photographic
film or chemical and dye manu
facture! s could easily locate on
available land nearby and take
this water directly from the
mine drainage treatment plant.
Edward Lashford, Piesident of
the Greater Wilkes-Bane Cham
ber of Commerce, alieady has
announced that his organization
is anticipating and planning for
future industrial growth in the
aiea.
The treatment plant will em
ploy a unique flash evaporation
process developed by Westing
house in a foui-year research
piogram and is similar to the one
used in desalting plants that con
vert ocean or backish water to
fresh water.
Contracts signed this week call
foi Westinghouse to design and
supply the technical and profes
sional skills necessary for the
plant’s multistage flash evapora
tor system, and to engineer and
supervise the general phnt con
struction which will be put out
on public bid. Both contracts
will be on a cost-plus basis not to
exceed $l4 2 million.
Westinghouse also will guar-
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antcc operation of the plant and cd more than 50,000 gallons of
the quality of the ultra-pure mine drainage water trucked
water it will produce. Work will from the Buttonwood outfall in
be performed by the water pro- the Wilkcs-Barra area.
Lester, Pennsylvania. on the plant will begin immed-
To withstand the extremely ialc,y *
corrosive effects of this parlicul- pcctcd to . , con .
ar acid mine drainage, the flash next January. wlt f actual
pvnnorator system will use ti- struction planned for next may.
tanium tubing. A pilot deminer- Initial plant operation is schedu •
alization plant has already treat- ed for July,
These tractors are equipped
with the famous DEUTZ
Air-Cooled diesel engine . . •
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312 W. Main Street New Holland, Pa. 17557
Phone: 354-4181
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Four-wheel drive available.
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