Word: viaduct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Luis Drain already exists in the valley. The study suggests using it as the basis of an even larger network. Underground drain pipes would carry salty water from individual farms to larger collection drains, which in turn would link up to a main 10-ft.-deep concrete viaduct. From its starting point, near Bakersfield, the viaduct would convey the salty water 290 miles away to Suisun...
Environmentalists too are worried about the unknown, particularly about the effect of heavily saline discharges into inland California waters. Recently, they forced a 15-mile rerouting of the proposed viaduct at an extra cost of $60 million. Says the Sierra Club's Peter Zars: "Our primary concern has been the amount of residual fertilizers and pesticides that would be discharged." Yet almost everyone agrees something must be done to save the San Joaquin. Warns State Conservation Department Director Priscilla Grew: "If we want to have long-term agriculture in the valley, we have to address the problem...
Died. Dr. Arthur C. Logan, 64, civil rights leader in the National Urban League and a former director of New York City's Haryou-Act, a forerunner of national poverty programs; in a fall from a viaduct; in Manhattan. One of the first black graduates of Columbia University's medical school, Logan was physician to both the late Rev. Martin Luther King and Duke Ellington...