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...spend $119 billion by the year 2000 to handle safely a sewage problem aggravated by population growth and shifts. Even without providing for an anticipated 23% rise in population, $91.1 billion is needed for sewer repair and construction, as well as for upgrading sewage-treatment facilities. According to the EPA, it will cost $37.2 billion to separate the combined sewer and street-drainage systems that were installed by some 80 cities in the early years of this century...
Panelist Ken Ferrucio, president of Warren County Citizens Concened about PCBs, said that in choosing the Warren County site, "The EPA has built into the siting regulation a mechanism for discrimination...
Some former Love Canal residents were outraged. "The EPA is as dependable as a wet noodle," said Robert Kott, who moved his wife and five children away from their home near the canal two years ago. Indeed, some members of an independent panel of experts that was asked by the EPA to analyze the data felt that the material made available to them was "of very poor scientific quality." Says Member Steven Aust, who is chairman of the Michigan toxic substance control commission: "I do not see how anyone could conclude with much assurance that the area was habitable...
Local officials have been pressing for the clean bill of health so that the state can resell homes it bought from fleeing homeowners and begin rehabilitating the neighborhood. The day after the EPA issued its report, the agency allocated $7 million to build new water-treatment plants in the area and extend the clay "cap" that now partly covers the canal...
...Love Canal report was released the same week that the EPA set new standards for hazardous waste disposal on land, culminating six years of tug-of-war between corporations and citizens' groups. The Environmental Defense Fund, which has been sharply critical of the EPA, described the new guidelines as "a mixed bag"; the public interest group claimed that the regulations were adequate to control new dumps but not restrictive enough on the 2,000 hazardous sites already in existence. Nonetheless, the EPA's 500-page rulebook requires the monitoring of contamination levels near waste sites...