Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, November 21, 1981, Image 151

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be responsible for actions taken
before it purchased the Stabatrol
operations.
OUCH has also filed for in
tervention status on the hearing
between Sunny Farms and DER
concerning the former’s suspended
state dumping permit.
In a letter recently received by
OUCH, the group was notified that,
while DER did not mind their
seeking third-party intervention
status, the bureaucracy, feared
that OUCH would, in reality, turn
on them in testimony.
But OUCH holdsJhopes for their*
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Farmers on these family operations that the legacy to their children and grandchildren,
populate Green Valley feel that they’re fighting Geologists studies say that a large aquifer, or
to stop the burial of hazardous, wastes, not underground water recharge system, lies
mainly for their own lifetimes, but to'protect beneath picturesque farmland.
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“secret weapon’’ in this heated,
dragged out confrontation.
That weapon is having the Green
Valley area designated an
“aquifer recharge zone.”
An aquifer is a large un
derground water supply, deter
mined by in-depth geological and
hydrological studies. To date, no
official aquifer has ever been
established in Pennsylvania, so the
group hopes to set a precedent. No
hazardous waste dumping is
allowed above a designated
aquifer zone, thus having the area
set aside by EPA would effectively
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halt all dumping proposals.
EPA’s Washington D.C. board
has acknolwedged that the site is a
likely one, even suggesting that the
area originally applied for as an
aquifer be more than tripled, to
include some 50 square miles.
Such proposals must be printed
in the Federal Register, then given
a six-month waiting period for
comments. If the proposal is
contested, public hearings must be
held.
.OUCH pins their hopes for the
aquifer status on a hydrogeological
study on the Liqwacon and Sunny
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 21,1981—D19
Farms site done by Professor Moid
U. Ahmad, professor of hydrology
at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
Conclusions of that study,
published in January, 1981 are:
—The hazardous waste site is
located in the aquifer which is the
sole drinking water source for the
residents of North Codorus
Township and the Borough of
Seven Valleys.
—The hazardous waste site is
located in on area which is faulted
and fractured and the earthquake
activity has also occurred in the
past and future earthquakes are
also expected and the earthquakes
could fracture the waste cells.
—The waste site is located in an
area where quarries exist. The
Berks ASC election
to be held Nov. 23-Dec. 7
LEES PORT A list of the
names of all known eligible per
sons to receive ballots in the up
coming annual ASC committee
election is available in the county
ASCS office, reports Mark S.
Balthaser, chairperson of the
Agricultural Stabilization and-
Conservation committee.
ASCS, an agency of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, is
responsible for farm program
administration. On the local level,
ASCS operates under a farmer
elected committee system. This A person may cast a ballot in any
year’s elections will be by mail county in which he or she is an
ballot between November 23 and elibible ASC voter, but her or sue
December. > cannot vote in more than one
Anyone who meets the
following requirements is
eligible to vote in these farmer
committee elections; any in
dividual of legal voting age with an
interest in a farm as owner, tenant,
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presence of these quarries and
shafts could fracture the waste
cells and produce extensive
pollution.
—The soil is unsuitable to at
tenuate anycontamined water.
- —The proposed site has already
been polluted due to the abandoned
Sunny Farm landfill site and this
situation has serious consequences
for North Codorus Township.
—The proposed method of
containment of hazardous waste is
not a- sound technique because m
the final analysis all clays or ar
tificial barriers eventually leak.
Moreover, given the weight of
overburden above the containment
barrier and the resulting pressure
head, leakage would accelerate.
or sharecropper who is eligible to
participate in any ASCS program.
Several general provisions
relate to ASC voter eligibility. A
wife who operates a farm with her
husband can vote if her name is on
the deed of conveyance. Any
person under 18 years of age can
vote if he or she runs a farm, and a
legal guardian who runs a farm for
a child can vote for the child. No
person can be denied the right to
vote because of race, sex, color,
religion, or national origin.
community in the county. If an
eligible voter has separate farm
interests in more .than one com
munity in the same county, special
care will be taken to see that only
one ballot is issued to that voter.
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