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We Seabrook investors 1 sue 9 Vermont utilities i In MONEY, Page 6B no SECTION for Cure in touted LakeNguiampSa Thursday, September 27, 1990 Phone: 865-0940 "'i I i I Streams would get chlorine treatment By Ann E. Donlan Free Press Staff Writer Burlington is considering adding chlorine or other chemicals to streams that feed into Lake Champlain as a way to help overcome water pollution problems that routinely close city beaches after storms. The Public Works Department has hired consultant William Pisano to study whether high fecal coliform bacteria counts could be controlled through treat-big streams that feed the lake near city beaches. George Crombie, the director of public works, said he hopes the city, state and University of Vermont could study the Eroblem of contaminated storm water at orth Beach in the summer. Crombie estimates the study would cost the city 675,000.

"Storm water treatment is a brand new horizon in the whole water pollution field," Crombie said. Cleaning up storm water before it reaches the lake would complement the city's 652 million project to control and treat discharges from city storm water and sewage pipes, Crombie said. "This, in scale, Is very, very small. But it can have an impact" Crombie said. Under such a progam, a stream would be dammed to form a pond where the water could be disinfected before it flows into the lake, Crombie said.

The initial capital costs of such a program are estimated at 61 million, and it would cost between 630,000 and 650,000 a year to operate, he said. The improvements to the city's three wastewater treatment plants will prevent heavy rainstorms from washing untreated sewage into the lake the cause pf most JYM WIISON, FrM Prwu Steven Goodkind, Burlington's city engineer and health officer, stands beside Engelsby Ravine, one possible source of pollution to Blanchard Beach and Lake Champlain. to exceed acceptable levels, Crombie said. Once the treatment plant improvements are complete, the city will use 35 tons of chlorine a year in the treatment process, Pisano said. The program Pisano recommended to the commission would use three more tons of chlorine.

beach closings. Construction on three plants is scheduled to start late this year or in early 1991. Crombie estimates the improved treatment plants would remove about 90 percent of the contaminants from sewage discharges. But animal waste and other contaminants in storm water could be enough to cause coliform bacteria levels But Steven Goodkind, the city engineer and health officer, said most of the chlorine used in the treatment process never makes it into the lake. Chlorine added to streams would flow directly into the lake, he said.

"We're looking at it," Goodkind said of Pisano's proposal. "We're not sold on it yet." Sole Vt. health maintenance group rejuvenated UHCf MCHV and CHP unite Three of Vermont's major non-profit health care Institutions University Health Center, the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont and Community Health Plan are merging their efforts Nov. 1. This means the health maintenance organization, CHP, has doubled Its pool of available primary care doctors to more than 60.

What they are: Wednesday. A health maintenance organization is a pre-paid health plan that provides medical care in return for a premium. The union allows CHP to increase its available primary care doctors from 30 to more than 60. "This will make CHP much more competitive in this region," Keller said, referring to health insurance providers. "More people will want to join CHP because of the greater choice of doctors and hospital services." "What happens now is most people's employers take a hulking amount every week from their paycheck, and they have to pay 20 percent of the doctor's bill," Keller said.

"Now, they would pay very small co-payments, like 62 per visit, Turn to HEALTH, 9B By Lori Campbell Free Press Staff Writer Vermont's only health maintenance organization has joined with Chittenden County's largest group of doctors and largest hospital to form a monumental health care union. To the average person, this could mean a "huge difference," said Jeanne Keller, president of Vermont Employers Health Alliance, a watchdog group on health care. "All around it's a really good thing." Community Health Plan, a non-profit and self-proclaimed socially conscious health maintenance organization, has expanded to include the University Health Center doctors and the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont's services, John Baackes, president of CHP, announced State notes House primary recount set for next week County clerks across the state will recount primary election ballots next week to determine the winner of the Democratic primary for the U.S. House of Representatives. Liberty Union party leader Peter Diamonds tone requested the recount after initial results from the Sept 11 primary showed that he lost to Democrat Dolores Sandoval 5,979 to 5,716.

Oct 4 and 5 have been set aside by Washington Superior Court for the first statewide recount since 1980 U.S. Senate race. That recount decided Sea Patrick Leahy, a Democrat, defeated Republican Stewart Ledbetter. Secretary of State James Douglas said the last recount took about four days but involved more than 200,000 ballots. Roughly 16,000 people voted in the recent Democratic primary.

Douglas added that he expects the recount will cost about (10,000 because the counters are paid $30 a day plus mileage. He said his budget cannot cover that cost and would expect to ask the Legislature for an adjustment in January. Ballots in three House races and a probate judge contest will be recounted today. Board to oversee victims compensation Gov. Madeleine M.

Kunin has announced a new program to help crime victims and has appointed a board of five Vermonters to oversee it The Victims Compensation Board will consist of Maxine Grad, an attorney from Moretown; Dr. Al Rubin, a Burlington physician; Monica Brillon of Morrisville, who has been active in victim support groups; Peter Flanagan, a White River Junction businessman; and Henrietta Jordan, a health care advocate from Montpe-lier, who will run the group. The board will administer the Victims Compensation Program, created by the Legislature this year. Funded through surcharges levied on convicted criminals, the program pays up to 610,000 to victims who sustain physical or emotional injuries resulting from criminal acts. The awards are for expenses not covered by insurance and will be available for medical expenses, lost wages, mental health counseling and other losses.

Until lawmakers established the pro-gram, Vermont was one of three states that did not provide financial assistance to victims of violent crime. The board is recruiting an executive director and hopes to have the program operational by Monday. For more information, write: Victims Compensation Board, P.O. Box 369, Waterbury 05676. $25,000 of damage done to bridge work RUTLAND Vandals ruined freshly poured concrete at the site of a bridge being built in Rutland, doing an estimated 625,000 in damage, police said Tuesday.

Sometime between 8:30 p.m. Monday and 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, one or more people broke into the construction site on State Street at East Creek, where the concrete surface had been poured for the bridge being built over East Creek by Daniels Construction Co. of Ascutney. A police spokeswoman said the vandals wrote graffiti in the concrete and damaged it in other ways that will cost the state and Rutland City 625,000 to repair.

Officials are asking anyone with information on the vandalism to contact police or Crime Stoppers. State challenged on Lake Groton Project GROTON An environmental group is urging the Vermont Water Resources Board to suspend its order to lower the level of Lake Groton. The Vermont Natural Resources Council is arguing that the drawdown violates the board's wetlands protection rules and has joined the state Natural Resources Agency in opposing the Lake Groton drawdown. The Water Resources Board which has some authority over the state's lakes, ponds, streams and wetlands wants to lower the level to minimize ice damage to shoreline property and to allow lakeshore property owners to repair docks. At a board meeting Wednesday, the Natural Resources Council argued that the drawdown could harm two environmentally sensitive wetlands next to the popular lake, which is in Groton State Forest.

The group contends the drawdown could cause the roots of important plants to be frozen, damaging fish and wildlife habitat. The drawdown Is in progress and the lake level is down at least one foot From staff wire reports Index Vermont's only teaching hospital will be an equal partner In the agreement and provide in-patient and out-patient services to CHP members. Vermont's only multi-specialty practice will make its 30 primary care doctors available to CHP members, doubling the list of doctors from which a CHP member can choose. Community Health Plan is the state's only health maintenance organization. An employer deducts a set amount from a worker's salary.

CHP clients use the services from a pool of area doctors for a set amount per visit. Free Press Literature, poster break election law Campaign takes aim at Smith Retired state high court justice dies By Mike Donoghue Free Press Staff Writer Rudolph J. Daley, the Newport native who taught himself the law and became a state Supreme Court justice, died Wednes togeth- erThe ItKffiHi post- er and letter tempt credit 1 1 back- By Andrea Zentz Free Press Staff Writer MONTPELIER A campaign to discredit U.S. Rep. Peter Smith with a poster characterizing him as Pinoc-chio and a letter using profanity to describe Vermont hunters violates state election laws.

It's not that violation, however, that has Smith and the Republican Party up in arms. They're taking aim at the campaign. "This type of garbage has no place in Vermont," Smith's chief of staff, David Karvelas, said. "I think trash like this ultimately backfires and will hurt the sickles that put this DALEY day. He was 72.

Daley was praised by former colleagues as a humble, self-educated lawyer with a sense of humor and practical sense. "I enjoyed his humor and dedication to duty," said Chief Federal Judge Franklin S. Billings who tivy'! i' i i 1 't I i a i ing a bill that would ban the importation and sale of semiautomatic rifles such as the AK-47 and the Uzi. That stand has drawn criticism from the National Rifle Association and some Vermont hunters who say he reneged on Turn to NEGATIVE, SB worked with Daley as both a Superior Court judge and Supreme Court justice. "He came across as a practical and able person," Billings said.

Retired Chief Justice Albert W. Barney Jr. of St. Johnsbury said Daley was very humble about his position. U.S.

House hopefuls support Bush in Gulf "He always understated his abilities," Barney said. Daley's days on the bench were well- known for scholarly, thoroughly re- searched opinions, his friends said. Daley served late in his career with U.S. Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist on an editorial advisory board for an international legal research insti-tute.

The lifelong Newport resident attended St Michael's College for one year in the late 1930s and returned to his hometown to read law in the office of the late attorney Raymond Miles. After being admitted to the profession Jan. 1, 1947, Daley established a law office in Newport He was a state's attor- ney for Orleans County from 1947 to 1950 and from 1953 to 1957, and worked Newport city attorney from 1949 to 1950 and from 1957 to 1959. Daley was elected to represent New- port City in the Legislature in 1957, and two years later he was elected without I Turn to JUSTICE, 5B JYM WILSON, Fraa Prest By Susan Allen The Associated Press MONTPELIER Bernard Sanders is calling for U.S. troop reductions in the Middle East; Peter Smith gives the resident a top grade for his andling of the Persian Gulf crisis.

The two Sanders is an independent challenging first-term incumbent Rep. Smith, for the state's lone U.S. House seat made those statements in response to 16 questions on U.S. involvement in the Middle East asked by three daily newspapers. Those papers are The St Albans Messenger, Bennington Banner and Brattleboro Re former.

Asked how the two candidates would grade Bush's handling of the conflict, Smith replied, "Although it appears the administration did not heed all of the warning signs, the president deserves an 'A for his handling of the crisis. He skillfully forged an international response and helped focus world opinion against Iraq." Sanders said the president deserves credit for his initial handling of the crisis, adding that he supports the deployment of a multinational force to prevent Iraq from further expansion. Turn to U.S., 9B Popping Wayne Miller, 1 1 practices skateboard maneuvers fc front of his Pine Street home Wednesday. He said he learned several moves on his board this summer. Wednesday's comfortable fall temperatures are due to make a return visit today, with highs expected in the low 70s.

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