—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. July 7, 1973
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Demonstrating the art of malting a cheese ball won Martha
Gregory the right to compete at the regional 4-H Demon
stration Contest on July 17.
Ephrata
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stone arch affair, has much less
carrying capacity than the new
one which is nearing completion.
The old bridge, however, was
lower at the ends When the creek
flooded, water went around the
bridge, spilling onto an open flood
plain which lies south of the
bridge site
The parties responsible for the
bridge and affected by the floods
have been pointing accusatory
fingers at each other The real
culprit, though, appears to be the
state The Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental
Resources told the County
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engineers that the bridge should
have a carrying capacity of 5000
cubic feet of water per second.
Huth engineers, designers of the
birdge, drew their plans for a
bridge with 7500 cubic feet per
second capacity, or half again as
much as DER said they should
have.
The state also specified the
construction of the approaches
leading up to the bridge Con
structing approaches is the
responsibility of the Ephrata
Township Board of Supervisors.
The supervisors recognized the
potential flooding threat, but
were compelled to follow the
state’s recommendations or risk
losing state construction funds.
After the July 3 flood, which
came just one day after the
farmers called on the con-
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Tires Are Minimized
As Accident Factors
A new federal government
study has found that passen
ger car tires are “not signifi
cant factors in traffic acci
dents.”
The new findings were con
tained in a report to Congress
by U. S. Comptroller General
-Elmer B. Staats on the entire
federal auto safety testing
program The Comptroller
General heads the General
Accounting Office, Congress*
watchdog over federal spend
ing.
In the fiscal years 1970-72,
the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration spent
a total of $4.8 million on com
pliance testing, the report
noted. More than half of this,
$2.5 million, went for tire
testing, compared to $1.4 mil
lion for vehicle testing, and
$913,943 for other equipment.
“Available accident data
and information from tire
studies indicate that dis
abled passenger vehicle tires
are not significant factors in
traffic accidents, and that the
Safety Administration’s rel
ative degree of emphasis on
tire testing, in terms of its
total enforcement program, is
more than warranted,” the
report declared.
The GAO report cited acci
dent data provided by the
National Bureau of Stand
ards, the Traffic Institute of
Northwestern University,
and the Highway Safety Re
search Institute at the Uni
versity of Michigan, to back
up its statements on tire
safety.
servatiomsts, the approaches to
the as yet unopened bridge were
reportedly eroded away to the
blacktop portion of the road
surface Officials from the
and the township are expected to
confer on the problem, with an
eye to somehow opening up the
old flood plain.
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