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Tuesday. Februai
News in Brief
Brewery will close
two years early
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The his
toric Pearl Brewery will be closed
more than two years earlier than
expected as it continues to lose
money, a Pabst Brewing Co. official
said Monday.
The 115-year-old plant'on the
banks of the San Antonio River will
be shuttered in 60 days, Pabst chief
operating officer Jim Walter told
KTSA radio.
Walter said corporate employees
will remain in San Antonio, but 82
workers will be laid off.
Walter did not immediately return
telephone calls from the Associat
ed Press.
Last June, San Antonio-based
Pabst’s board of directors voted to
keep the brewery open for at least
three more years but operating at
less than half its capacity and with
a skeleton crew.
In July, more than 260 employ
ees were laid off.
The remaining workers have
continued to make Lone Star and
Pearl, two regional beers born in
San Antonio.
Search continues
for missing sailor
GALVESTON (AP) — The Coast
Guard continued searching Monday
for a man who apparently fell off a
sailboat en route from Galveston to
Isla De La Hara, Mexico.
Mark Warren, 36, was discovered
missing from the 27-foot sailboat
Zephyr early Sunday afternoon when
the other person aboard awoke to re
lieve him on watch. The remaining
sailor immediately radioed the Coast
Guard.
Gasoline additive cause of San Marcos pollui
SAN MARCOS (AP) — State
regulators are preparing to add a
site polluted by a gasoline additive
along the San Marcos River to their
Superfund registry of Texas’ most
environmentally contaminated ar
eas in a move that has surprised
government officials and environ
mentalists.
Cleanup of pollution caused by
the additive MTBE and a solvent, if
approved by the state’s Natural Re
source Conservation Commission,
would be the first Central Texas ef
fort to get federal Superfund help
since the program began in 1980.
Investigators for TNRCC were
scheduled to outline what they
know about the plume of ground-
water contamination east of the In
terstate 35-Texas 123 intersection
during a public meeting at 6:30 p.m.
tonight at the San Marcos Public Li
brary.
“The public meeting is an at
tempt to obtain some information
about the site, maybe things the pub
lic will know and will share,” the
TNRCC’s Dick Lewis told the San
Marcos Daily Record.
Groundwater tests of Willow
Springs Creek, one of the San Mar
cos River’s chief tributaries east of
35, have since the 1980s found de
tectable levels of MTBE and a dry-
cleaning solvent. But city officials
who occasionally test the river for
contaminants such as fecal col-
iform, said they were unaware of
contamination near the river. Envi
ronmentalists were also caught off
guard.
“This was a big shock to us,” Di
anne Wassenich, San Marcos River
Foundation president, told the Austin
American-Statesman. “We knew
nothing about this, and it’s a shame,
because if we had, it might have been
easier to trace the contamination.”
She said researchers for the foun
dation and Southwest Texas State
University also perform tests along
This was a big
shock to us. We knew
nothing about this,
and it's a shame.''
— Dianne Wassenich
San Marcos River Foundation
president
the river, but no one had identified
the contamination by chemicals per-
chloroethylene (PCE) and methyl
tertiary butyl ether before.
The TNRCC has investigated the
area for more than 10 years, but only
recently recommended the site for
Superfund status, saidSitij
commission project!
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viewpoint, il does lookli
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will be addressed at then
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PCE and the MTBEi
creek and the springs tliailj
remained consistent form
decade, according to r«
ever, state records indicate!
be no traces of the i
river.
Area environmentalist^
residents are concernedcj
contamination's impactooij
and the endangered speciej
habit it.
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