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...admittedly expensive cleanup effort will mean greater expense in the future. "Delay not only prolongs the time that people are exposed to toxic hazards," says Michael Podhorzer, director of the National Campaign Against Toxic Hazards. "But every day it means that more toxic chemicals are released into the soil, air and water. The longer we wait, the greater the damage will be and the higher the final cleanup cost will...
...developed beside the dump. By the mid-'60s, fish in the river contained high levels of such known or suspected carcinogens as PBB, PCB and DDT. Working with EPA, the company in 1982 agreed to spend $38.5 million to clean up the area. At the golf course, all soil was removed to a depth of 3 ft. below any signs of contamination. That involved hauling 68,204 cu. yds. of dirt away. Fully l.25 million gal. of contaminated groundwater were pumped into a 3,400-ft. well lined with two cement walls. EPA considers the golf course cleaned...
...them as potentially, if not definitely, hazardous to human health. They have been dumped or buried for years on the plausible but, as it turned out, ! tragically wrong theory that they would lose their toxicity during the decades it would take them to drift through layers of soil and rock into deep water supplies. There is no way to remedy in a few years at least a century of such misguided, if innocent, practices...
Castro realizes several gains from the alien presence on his soil. His much-publicized cessation in '65 of the flow of Cuban labor to the base conveniently did not include current workers. It's taken fully two decades to narrow the Cuban workforce to a few hundred from an early '60s level of several thousand. All workers on the base are paid in dollars. The hard currency flow to the cash-strapped Havana regime must be extremely welcome...
Apparently, Rosovsky does not tell his students "the most important thing," and Hershbach must explain that billions of East Asians have cultivated rice for thousands of years because rice doesn't deplete soil nutrients...