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Lucinda B. Hanna Arlington, Va...
Insists Costle: "We can't afford not to clean up. All we'd be doing would be pushing the cost over to the next generation." He notes that when the Life Science Products Co., a chemical plant in Hopewell, Va., was found to be contaminating the James River with Kepone in 1975, the source of pollution could have been cleaned up at a cost of $250,000. The company delayed and since has paid out $13 million in damage claims. Now, experts estimate, it will cost at least $2 billion to purify the river. Contends Costle...
Joseph A. Condo McLean, Va...
...McLean, Va...
...comes every social pathology; when Rifle doubles in size, juvenile delinquency increases three times; the alcoholism rate increases four times; displaced homemakers increase 4.5 times. The immediate costs are immense, the long-term benefit doubtful." It is no wonder that some little communities, as Mayor Byron Farwell of Hillsboro, Va. (pop. 135) points out in the journal Small Town, "struggle to stay small...