—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 21, 1972
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Penn State Film
Awarded Prize
The Living Filter, a film
describing the Pennsylvania
State University’s ten-year ex
periment in waste water
renovation, has been awarded
first prize in a competition
sponsored by the Society of
American Foresters.
The award was presented
Monday, October 2, during the
annual meeting of the Society at
Hot Springs, Arkansas. Dr.'
William Sopper, forest
hydrologist involved in the
project, accepted for the
University. Over three thousand
delegates saw the film Wed
nesday evening.
The film, in color, was written
and narrated by Gilbert S. Aberg
of Penn State’s Department of
Public Information and was
photographed and edited by
George Hornbem, of Horbein-
Wood Films, Lemont, Pa.
The Living Filter was given its
“world premiere” only recently
at a symposium on the technique
held at Penn State.
The “living filter” is a phrase
coined by Mr. Aberg in 1964 to
describe the then-new Penn State
project The term has come into
wide usage since to identify any
spray-irrigation system that
uses the soil to purify waste
water. Living Filter systems are
in operation or on the drawing
boards for several of the nation’s
largest urban regions, notably
Chicago and Muskegon County,
Michigan.
Featured in the film are Dr.
Sopper and three other principal
investigators on the Penn State
project Dr. Louis Kardos, Dr.
Earl Myers, and Dr Richard
Parizek
The prize-winner was produced
by the University’s Dept of
Public Information in con
junction with Hornbein-Wood
Sound recording engineers
were Lawrence Johnston, of the
staff of WPSX, and Gregg Miller,
of radio station WMAJ Tom
Keiter was assistant
cameraman
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rebuilding flood-stricken farm were displaced from their jobs
areas—-is in full swing in 27 because of the flood.”
counties
The work project, funded by
emergency state appropriations
to cope with the devastation
wrought by Hurricane Agnes,
employs 310 people to clean up
and repair farms and homes in
communities of 5,000 or less
whose owners were severely hit
by the flood and have few
financial resources to get the job
done themselves
The ACRE project sup
plements a similar work
program - AgriSpeed - which is
slated to end Oct. 11. AgriSpeed
was administered by the
Department of Agriculture and
funded through the Department
of Labor and Industry and em
ployed as many as 400 workers in
the field.
“Our AgriSpeed project
brought tremendous results,”
said McHale “But much work
remains to be done so we decided
to use our emergency flood
money for the complementary
ACRE project. Our efforts to
mend fences, remove stream bed
blockage, clear farms of debris
and repair farm buildings and
dwellings have already earned
praise in letters we have received
from rural residents.”
The Department of
Agriculture, before launching
ACRE, conducted an in-depth
survey of Clinton and Wyoming
counties to determine the typical
kinds of flood damage that
needed repairs Rural damage
statewide as a result of the flood
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