AlB—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 29,1980 Letters To The Editor Dear j&ouor: We are pleased to read the article “Bradford group joins hands to dump the dump” in the March 22 issue. Hopefully, Lancaster Fanning will continue to report on DER’s next proposed hazardous chemical waste dump site in Ridgebury Township, Bradford County, to be operated by Stabatrol Corporation. We own a 140 acre farm less than thre miles from this proposed site. We are also members of Penn sylvania Farmers’ Association and concerned members of BCAUSE (Bradford Citizens Against Unsafe Environment). As you know, the Brad ford-Sulhvan County Far mers’ Association has publicly denounced this proposed site along with many other Bradford County organizations, state and county officials. I realize, as well as many other people, that hazardous chemical wastes are by products of our twentieth century society and that they have to be disposed of somewhere, but it appears to us that DER just in discriminately chooses areas without investigating present and future con sequences for that area. I also fmd it alarming that some of the former DER employees eventually become employees of hazardous waste cor porations. What has become of Pennsylvania’s con stitutional amendment, Article 1, Section 27’ Haven’t there been enough near catastrophic mishaps within Pennsylvania this past year with TMI, the Lyncott and Allenwood dumps, to name a few? Must we add Ridgebury to this list 7 COMPLETE FARM MINTING I 4 a We Use Quality PAINT AERIAL LADDER EQUIPMENT • Modern and Efficient Method • Reasonable Prices • Spray On and Brush In Method • Sandblasting If Necessary FOR FREE ESTIMATES WRITE ESH SPRAY PAINTING fDantelS Esh C Ralph Miller} SPRAY-ON AND BRUSH IN PAINTER Box 350 A Ronks PA 17572 or call this number 717-687-7007 or 717-687-8262 INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL Certainly there must oe wastelands elsewhere m the state away from productive dairy and farm lands, water sources, game lands, and God-given natural scenic lands. I feel a state-wide moratorium should be ef fected against additional proposed hazardous chemical waste permits issued by DER. This state is 'perfections. The only answer just too beautiful to destroy to problems 0 f the future is because of the whims of a Recently few money-hungry people. on Minutes” it was made I would appreciate any c j ear that there isn’t help your editorial staff, or a thing as safe nuclear others, could give m our flsslon . The after effects will ftghtagamst this dump. imger on for years. Mrs Pam Salerno Daniel M. Groff, R 2, Sayre utitz Dear Editor: There is a simple solution to the TMI problem. What must done is a make a mountain on the Island. This is a practical way to solve the problem. If enough dirt is hauled to cover over man’s mistakes the TMI problem will be solved. The sooner we give up the curiosity of nuclear power, the better off we all will be. It is unfair to expose all the good people of the TMI area to anymore dangers, just to satisfy the curiosity of a few greedy and egotistical people. Cover it over and let it be a monument to man’s im- Wind erosion again damages Great Plains soils WASHINGTON, D.C. damaged, 96 percent Wind damaged almost three (2,999,890 acres) was times as much land-more cropland; three percent than 3.1 million acres-m the (93,740 acres) was Great Plains during the rangeland; and one percent months of November 1979 (30,080 acres) was other through February 1980 as it land. did during the same period a Hardest hit was Texas year earlier, Norman A. with 989,247 acres or 32 per- Berg, administrator of the cent of the total. The U.S. Department of southern plains states Agriculture's Soil Conserva- reported 57 percent of the tion Service said Monday. land damaged (1,770,922 Berg said reports from the acres) and the northern 10-state area indicate the plains 43 percent (1,352,788 wind damaged 3,123,710 acres). acres, up from 1,170,849 for Wind also destroyed crops the same period a year or cover on 400,569 acres of earlier. He said the major land not damaged. Of this factors contributing to wind total, 79 percent was m the erosion this season were low southern Great Plains. summer and fall precipita- Soil Conservation Service hon and lack of snow cover. compiles wind erosion Of the total land reported reports covering seven mon KNNSVUMNIA write (MOWING BETTER *sa> ths, November through May plied by almost 550 counties each year, using data sup- in the Great Plains.