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D10 THE SUN, Tuesday, March 8, 1983 Wilmington DELAWARE Del. dumps targeted by EPA face suits By Mary Corddry Sun Staff Correspondent castle yrzzj county Tnrx Newark fj5y Army vJ-' A-Z-M Creek I Corner VK NT i Landfill I tecT Baltimore-- A NEWCASTLE CO flM jOELAWVRE Ava MARYLAND? Because the company was not satisfied with the county's remedial measures, Artesian hired its own consultant, Geraghty Miller, of Annapolis. That firm's report, issued in July, called the county's recovery wells "a wasteful stopgap." Mr. Johnson also charged that the county was dumping the recovered contaminated groundwater into the Delaware River without a permit. At the Region 3 EPA office in Philadelphia, a spokesman, Joe Donovan, conceded that the county had "no valid permit" but explained that "EPA is waiting for the state to submit a permit application to pump into Army Creek." Army Creek is high on the national priority list because of the threat to groundwater, he said, but there has been no allocation from the EPA Superfund for the cleanup here.

The reason? "The county and state are pursuing studies of their own," he said. The Superfund program, which Congress created in 1980, establishes a $1.6 billion fund financed mainly by a special tax paid by petroleum and chemical industries to start the cleanup of hazardous and potentially hazardous sites before the long legal process of establishing blame. Robert Touhey, of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources, said it is "premature to say who is responsible for Army Creek." In an attempt to identify polluters, letters have been sent out to industries. which supplies 36,000 customers in the suburban area south of Wilmington, has bad a $6 million suit against New Castle county in the Delaware Chancery Court for eight years. The case has been heard, and a Delaware judge is now deciding whether the county is liable for diminishing Arte-sian's water supply.

Whatever the decision, it is expected to be appealed, and a resolution of the suit could take years. The EPA has not filed suit against the county for the contamination at Army Creek because, according to agency spokesmen, the county and the state of Delaware are already trying to block the spread of pollution there. New Castle county has spent $3 million to intercept the polluted groundwater by digging wells around the perimeter of the contaminated area and pumping the befouled water into Army Creek and the Delaware River. Peter N. Johnson, vice-president and general manager of the Artesian Water Company, said last week that before discovery of the slowly migrating pollution and the recovery wells dug by the county, his company pumped 5.3 million gallons a day from its wells here.

Now the company has had to cut back to 2 million gallons a day. As a result, the firm had to dig new wells in other parts of the county and buy water from other utilities. "This was the most productive aquifer in Delaware," Mr. Johnson said. The trucks on U.S.

13 roar by the Tybouts Corner landfill. The roll of the land partly shields it from the neat homes scattered along the quieter rural road to Red Lion that borders it on the west Residents encountered here seem only casually aware of the proximity of the landfill or its critical status. At the blocked entrance to the old dump site, bits of carpet and scrap metal projecting from the barren ground and a general look of desolation set it apart from the surrounding countryside. But the real problem is not visible and was not recognized until recent years. Chemicals identified as trichloro-ethylene, vinyl chloride and have been found in the ground and surface water here.

A few miles north, beside a concentration of new subdivisions along U.S. 13, a second New Castle county landfill encompassing 56 acres along Army Creek has been found to be leaking into the groundwater tetra-chloroethylene, a solvent, and a chemical for which the EPA has not yet established safe limits. The contaminated area threatens the well field of a private water company only 3,000 feet away. There is no accusation of midnight or surreptitious dumping from any source here, only the failure on all sides, 15 and more years ago, to recognize the long-range effects of pouring chemicals into the ground. The Artesian Water Company, Tybouts Corner, Del.

About eight years ago the water from Jacob Wagner's well at his rural home in Delaware became so yellow that he and his sister began hauling in their drinking water in plastic milk bottles. Mr. Wagner filed suit in a Delaware court a few weeks ago against New Castle county, claiming that the Tybouts Corner landfill bordering his property had contaminated his water supply. Here at the north end of the Del-marva Peninsula the now-inactive Tybouts Corner landfill, closed about 10 years ago, is No. 2 on the Environmental Protection Agency's list of 418 hazardous-waste sites across the nation given top priority for cleanup.

The Tybouts Corner landfill and another at Army Creek a few miles to the north also in the top 20 on the EPA priority list bring close to home the national menace of chemical pollution of the nation's surface and groundwater. And the present national uproar over the performance of the EPA in cleaning up and controlling hazardous wastes could turn a spotlight on two regional problems that have been grinding slowly along for 10 years with so many legal, technical and bureaucratic complexities that the public may have lost its sense of urgency about them. Sun Graphics "We would be happy if responsi ble parties came forward, he said. Meanwhile, he said, the state and county are working with the EPA on proposals for an improved recovery system to stop the spread of the pollution. Hole found on hull of sunken ship; Norfolk (AP) Divers have found a large hole in the bottom of the sunken coal ship Marine Electric that could have been caused when it struck bottom while aiding a fishing trawler in distress, the collier's owners said yesterday.

The 605-foot coal ship capsized and sank February 12 in gale-whipped seas only a few hours after it lent assistance to a foundering trawler that later reached port safely. Thirty-one of the Marine 34-man crew died in the frigid water about 30 miles southeast of Ocean City. Divers hired by the ship's owners found a 36-fooHong hole that begins on the ship's port side and wraps across its bottom and up the starboard side, a company spokesman said. The hole was 7 feet across at its widest point, said Michael Berkowitz, counsel for the Marine Coal Transport Corporation of New York. Mr.

Berkowitz read from a press release, quoting Capt. Henry Downing, a company vice-president: "I believe it is obvious that this damage is the primary contributing cause of the tragedy. The hole in the hull is of the type that could have been caused by the ship striking a sandy bottom during rough weather. We know the ship was approaching shallow water the preceeding day when it was assisting the fishing boat Theodora." Mr. Downing said the Marine Electric was in water as shallow as 42 feet when it turned to go to the trawler's assistance and may have struck bottom.

He said that the heavy seas could have widened the crack into a hole and that water would have been forced into one of the ship's empty fuel tanks. The company officer said the force of the in-rushing water could have blown out some watertight bulkheads. He also said that the hatch covers probably did not give way, because divers did not discover coal dumped on the ocean floor except where the ship broke in two after it sank. Survivors testified during hearings held jointly by the Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board last month in Portsmouth that the ship was in poor condition when it sailed on its last voyage. The hearings are scheduled to resume March 21 at an unspecified location.

At Tybouts Corner, the long dirt lane to the small, white frame house of the Wagners is chained off for foot traffic only. Sara Wagner said that her brother works with bees and was away. She was reluctant to talk about his suit against the county involving contamination of their well. Mayor makes pitch to wary panel for stadium bonds $22 million in bond authority for Memorial Stadium improvements with the stipulation that Mr. Irsay, who had pushed for the renovations, sign a 15-year lease with the city.

When the two-year life of that bond authority threatened to lapse in June, with the city still nowhere near signing a long-term lease with the Colts, the legislature extended the offer for one year. Mayor Schaefer now has conceded that the $22 million bond authority is dead. Neither Mr. Irsay nor Mr. Williams, he said yesterday, will agree to leases of 15 years.

This year's proposal $15 million in exchange for six-year leases is a compromise the mayor believes he can deliver on. Yesterday he said the city as "a very good chance for Mr. Williams to sign," and a "relatively good chance for Mr. Irsay to sign." cities in the country," he said, referring to Census Bureau figures released Sunday that ranked Baltimore eighth in percentage of impoverished residents. "So if you think there's any way I'm going to give money away when we're in desperate need desperate need your're wrong." "The franchises are very important to our economy They're very important to our state," said House Speaker Benjamin L.

Cardin, testifying in support of the bond legislation. Lieutenant Governor J. Joseph Curran arrived late in the hearing to say, "The governor is strongly supportive of the mayor's package." Larry Lucchino, representing Mr. Williams, quoted Hank Peters, the Orioles general manager, as saying the Orioles offices at the stadium are "the worst in baseball." Michael Chernoff, of the Colts front office, said the stadium is "if not the worst, then running a very close second-to-the-worst facility in major league football for watching a game and producing a game." Delegate McCoy offered the committee members a tour of the stadium offices, locker rooms and press areas. In 1980, the legislature approved would pay back its portion of the bonds.

Delegate Susan R. Buswell (D, Howard) and Delegate Paul Muldow-ney (D, Washington) chided the mayor when he said he was not sure who would receive the revenues earned from the new "skyboxes" luxury lounges that would be among the modernizations at the stadium. Mr. Schaefer said negotiations simply had not gone far enough to know who would benefit. The 50 sky-boxes 9-foot-by-15-foot, air-conditioned lounges that include bathrooms and kitchenettes would be rented to corporations for $30,000 a season.

Mr. Schaefer said Mr. Irsay would like to keep that income, $1.5 million, for his team. "That's not what we're gonna do," the mayor said. The mayor said he would like the city to share in those revenues.

Mr. Muldowney disagreed. "In my humble opinion, I think the revenues have got to come back to the taxpayers of the state" by helping pay off the bonds, not by going back to Mr. Irsay or the city, he said. Mr.

Schaefer's jaw tightened. "It sort of galls me real bad that Baltimore is on a list as one of the poorest proval for the full $15 million package, which needs the cooperation of the Colts. "It would take a very firm commitment from the Colts to get that bill," Mr. McCoy said. "There just isn't much sympathy for the Colts down here, but there is a good perception of Edward Bennett Williams and the Orioles." The city, out of its share of the admissions tax charged for stadium events, would pay back half the cost of the bond issue, whether it is $15 million or $7.5 million.

The state would pay the other half. Mr. Schaefer, aware that stadium improvements with state bonds has never been the most popular issue in Annapolis, was at his most patient before the committee. He had to be. Not all their questions were cordial.

"I just don't like the idea of Baltimore city and the state of Maryland being at the mercy of Mr. Williams the Orioles owner and Mr. Irsay," owner of the Colts, said Delegate John M. Shore). Delegate Constance A.

Morella (R, Montgomery) archly asked that "before we approve this giveaway" the city clarify unclear wording in the bill that explains how Baltimore By Sandy Banisky Annapolis Bureau of The Sun Annapolis Armed with charts and architect's drawings and the support of the governor and the speaker of the House, Mayor Schaefer came to Annapolis yesterday to lobby for $15 million in improvements to Memorial Stadium. In return, he told the House Appropriations Committee, the city will sign both the Orioles and the Colts to six-year leases at the stadium. Should the city manage to sign only the Orioles to a long-term agreement, a deal the mayor called "very possible," Baltimore would receive only $7.5 million in bond authority, contained in a separate bill, for modernizing the stadium. The delegates, many of whom had heard Mr. Schaefer's speech on the stadium before, were a polite but not warm audience.

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