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
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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
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ths, November through May plied by almost 550 counties
each year, using data sup- in the Great Plains.
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