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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1981
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The pool is offering a special for Texas A&M
students this week.
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By BELINDA McCOY
Battalion Staff
fawhe Environmental Protection
mcy has issued a formal com
int with a possible $26,000 penal-
fflUMagainst Texas A&M University’s
Firemen Training Field for
or etc lure to take proper precautions in
rates! : use of an electrical transformer
; { 0 1 itaining PCB (polychlorinated
'ieny]).
PCB is a carcinogen when taken
emally, said Albert Stirling, man-
irofthe field.
Having PCB in an electrical trans-
mer poses no immediate danger,
rling said. “You have to take it
emally — drink it or eat it — (for
chemical to be dangerous),” he
However, accidents in which
imal feed was contaminated with
IB eventually led to human con-
uption of the chemical, Stirling
PCB was popular several years ago
use in the oil used to cool electric-
transformers, Stirling said. Since
in, manufacturing PCB has been
tlawed.
But, Stirling said, it cannot be
own away. It has to be stored
Wiling to EPA regulations.
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Dr. James Bradley, director of
Texas Engineering Extension Ser
vice, said that the complaint noted
failure to mark a PCB transformer,
failure to store a transformer proper
ly, and failure to keep records of the
transformer.
Bradley said that he feels the com
plaint is unfounded because the
transformer does not actually func
tion as an electrical transformer, but
rather as a teaching aid for the fire
men trainees.
He defended TEES’ failure to
maintain records of the PCB.
“We don’t feel like we have to
maintain records, because it’s just a
teaching aid,” he said.
“There are no such thing as regula
tions for transformers used as a
teaching aid, only regulations for
transformers used as transformers,”
Bradley said.
“We think once we explain that,
everything will be fine.”
Bradley and Stirling both said that
storing the PCB according to EPA
regulations was impossible since the
transformer was used regularly by
the training school.
Stirling said he was not sure how
the training field got the transformer
more than 10 years ago, but he said,
“It was probably donated to us from
some industry. It has been here for,
years and years.”
Stirling plans to represent TEES
in an informal settlement conference
with the EPA. If a settlement cannot
be reached then, the case will go to
formal hearing. Neither Bradley nor
Stirling feel that Texas A&M will
have to pay the $26,000 penalty.
“I don’t know anyone who’s ever
paid the penalty,” said Stirling. “We
feel we haven’t violated any of the
rules.”
By CINDY GEE
Battalion Staff
Money doesn’t buy much these
days, but this week Aggies have a
chance to lose weight, lower their
pulse rate and blood pressure and
get in shape for 25 cents.
College Station’s bubble-
enclosed Thomas Park Pool is offer
ing an Aggie Special. Students with
an I.D. can swim Jan. 21 to Jan. 31,
from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Monday
through Friday, and Saturday and
Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. for
a quarter. Pool admission usually
costs 75 cents.
Unlike the recent 40-degree tem
peratures, the air inside the bubble
is kept around 85 degrees and the
water at 88 degrees.
The pool was built last spring and
covered with a bubble in December.
College Station Aquatics Director
Charles Szabuniewicz said there are
very few city-owned covered pools in
Texas.
“We used to have only 50 or 60
people a month who came out and
swam in the heated pool in Bee
Creek Park,” he said. “They bought
the bubble to save money on heating
costs and also to in
crease. .. revenue. ”
Nine hundred people have
already used the pool this month, not
including the swim team, Szabu
niewicz said.
Jack Lester, a local businessman,
donated money to the city a few
years ago to help build the pool.
The L-shaped pool is 82 feet by 69
feet and can hold as many as 202
swimmers and four divers, said Mar
cus Haptonstall, a Texas A&M Uni
versity student who lifeguards and
controls the temperatures in the
bubble. He said there is a training
area for children, a recreation and
competitive swim area with five
swimming lanes and a diving area.
The pool schedule for weekdays
is:
9 to 11 a.m. — swimming lessons
and exercise classes.
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. — adult swim
ming
1 to 3 p.m. — public swimming
3 to 6 p.m. — competitive swim
team (closed to the public)
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