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Originally most of the waste was dumped at sea. The materials were packed into 55-gal. drums marked with AEC's radioactivity insigne, a white cloud with four lightning bolts shooting out of it. The drums were lined with 2 to 10 in. of cement, sealed with more cement, and carried by ship to offshore dumping grounds set up by AEC. Two such grounds are off the Atlantic coast, two more are off the coast of California. All four are in water 6,000 ft. deep. Since 1946. about 21,000 drums have been tipped into the Pacific...
...doctors and eight nurses are always available). Two existing company restaurants carry a daily food supply; to supplement that, Hancock has stockpiled 400 cases of Multi-Purpose Food (MPF), one can of which can feed a person for ten days. The company is also counting on 12,000 gal. of water in the building tanks, 25,000 gal. in the building pipes, and 1,250 cases of water in cans...
...dairy production, especially for dairymen who live in states (California, Arizona, Florida) where laws require that dairy cattle be thoroughly washed before milking. By the usual inefficient and costly method, the cow has to be hosed down or herded into a soaking pen, and washing consumes about 30 gal. of water per cow. The Cowash, which uses about 3 gal. per cow, operates pretty much like an automatic automobile washer, with the cow tripping the switches as she moves along the track. Says Corona, Calif.'s Milk Mogul Tony Cardoza: "The cows are much more relaxed now." CJ Automatic...
Farmers who depend on irrigation measure their water by the acre-foot (325,900 gal.): the amount that will cover one acre of land to a depth of 1 ft. At 25? per 1,000 gal., an acre-foot would cost more than $80-plus the cost of delivery from desalting plant to farm. Few farmers pay more than $5 per acre-foot, and most pay much less. Since practical water experts see little chance of cutting the basic $80 cost to $5, they hardly expect to see deserts made fruitful with desalted sea water...
Freshened sea water for municipal use is another matter. People in nearly rainless countries pay high prices for their drinking and washing water. Some oil refinery towns pay as much as $2 per 1,000 gal. ($650 per acre-foot) for distilled sea water, and a cut in the price would bring more desalting installations. But cities in well-watered regions are better off. New York pipes pure and plentiful water from the Catskill Mountains 70 miles away for 10? per 1,000 gal.-less than two-fifths the lowest possible cost of freshened sea water. No one in Tucson...