age 6/The Bat+a I ion/Tuesday, May 31, 1983
Clean-up crews work
at chemical dump site
United Press International
CROSBY — Crews were on
tandby Saturday to clean up
ny newly discovered black
;lobs of contaminated materials
/hich may have escaped from a
lazardous dump site during last
weekend’s flooding, an official
aid.
Harris County Pollution
Control Director Allison Peirce
aid the sticky balls of waste
naterial did not pose a threat to
he general public, but he
autioned residents living near
he French Limited waste site
1 long U.S. 90 and the San Jacin-
I o River north of Houston
gainst touching any wastes that
night have drained from a hold-
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ing pit during heavy rains.
“Any citizens who find any of
the black globs should call us,
and we will send someone to
pick them up,” Peirce said. “This
is kind of tarry material, and it is
not material you’d want to get on
someone.”
Peirce said tests of three sam
ples of tar-like material from the
site were found to contain high
levels levels of polychlorinated
biphenyls, or PCBs.
The tests showed the black
balls of waste contained concen
trations of PCBs at 500 parts-
per-million, well above the En
vironmental Protection Agen
cy’s maximum safety threshold
of 50 ppm, Peirce said.
U.S. Rep. Jack Fields, R-
Texas, Friday said he would
oversee the Environmental Pro
tection Agency’s role in any
cleanup at the site.
“It’s my understanding that
the EPA will provide means to
make any cleanup that is exter
nal to the French pit,” Peirce
said.
The EPA banned the manu
facture and use of PCBs in 1979.
The chemical, once used to insu
late industrial electrical equip
ment, is suspected of causing
cancer.
Peirce said he found hun
dreds of the black globs, ranging
in size from several inches to less
than an inch in diameter, atop
an earthen dike surrounding a
pit at the site. He said EPA offi
cials estimated 5 percent of the
total waste in the pit escaped
elsewhere on the site because of
flooding caused by stormy
rather last weekend.
However Peirce said he
doubted if any of the contamin
ated material left the 18 acre
dump site.
“I don’t think there’s a big
threat out there,” Peirce said.
Initial tests of floodwaters
downstream from the French
Limited and the nearby Sikes
Disposal pit — labeled by the
EPA as among 418 of the na
tion’s worst hazardous waste
sites — showed no signs of pollu
tants.
Under an EPA-sponsored
partial cleanup of the French
site two years ago, the PCB laced
material was siphoned from an
adjoining ditch, where it had
seeped over a period of years. It
was then pumped into a holding
pit, which is protected by a wide
earthen dam. Peirce said the
material was due to be disposed
of elsewhere, but never was.
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Texas private investigator sued
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Weigh same
at age 50,
but still fatter
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possible to weigh the sameai
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the half-century mark.
Dietitian GloriaJohnsonS
this can happen because fl/
holism decreases and body
increases during the agingP !
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tion at California State Unjvtf
ty, offers these tips forgetting
the basic nutrients you nf*
while staying within yourcal® 1
limit:
— If you dislike the tastf
milk, add nonfat milk in pref
ing other foods or try coof 1,
cereal in milk instead of wai‘
— Eat dark green leaf)
deep yellow vegetables at l (
three times a week for vitaf*
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— Have a good sourceof' 16
min C daily — either citrusfn 1 *
or green peppers, cabba) 1
strawberries or melon.
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