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I i f'" J-. V- DAYTON DAILY NEWS Fourth Section Page 53 Thursday, Nov. 11, 1971 ocus Pollution in Wells: iddletown Riddle the rate of infil- might affect tration. WW i 1 "-(m I 1 r- 1 hi I '551 II Jtr t. mm mil I iinrMii fered on samples from the same wells.

Well 127, for example, which sits in the middle of the landfill area, initially had a reading of 180 parts per billion of lead on the initial check (as against the Public Health service standard of 50 parts per billion), and 42 parts per billion of cadmium, as against a standard of 10. The -c however, showed water from the same well at less than five parts of lead and less than one of cadmium, and zero for both, depending on which lab report is consulted. The conservancy district, after discussions with the U.S. Geological survey and the Ohio Department of Health, concluded that there were a wide variety of factors which might enter into the ences including sampling techniques, the preparation of containers for taking the samples, type and condition of well casing and piping and river water levels at the time of sampling, since water levels SAID THE district's report, "Normal levels of lead and cadmium have not been established may take two or three years to determine the base conditions and proper evaluation of lead and cadmium in individual samples cannot be made without this base." The investigation of ground water is continuing, but the district said that no further action was necessary as a result of the lead and cadmium levels. Sanitary landfills are the approved successors to dumps.

Garbage and other wastes are spread out and bulldozed over with tin layers of dirt. One unknown is the condition of rain water that percolates through a landfill and ultimately ends up in a stream. Whether having a landfull next to a stream is dangerous may be determined in the Middletown study. Daily Niwt Staff Photo I 25-Ton Steam Locomotive Can Pull Six Cars Carrying 480 Passengers Steam Engine Back Warren Amusement Park Train in Trial Ruii By DICK O'HARA Daily News Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN The city of Middletown may have to drill a series of test wells to determine if its fresh water wells are being polluted by the murky Great Miami river, a nearby sanitary landfill or another unknown source. Bacteria have shown up in several of the city's shallow wells.

"My own guess," said Kel-sie Singleton, superintendent of water and wastewater treatment, "is that the river itself is the (pollution) source, but there's no proof that it is." THE CITY'S water supply wells are recharged by the river, but are also about a mile and a half downsteam from the landfill. A preliminary examination of the water supply conducted by geologist Fred Klaer of Columbus was not conclusive, Singleton said. "There have been bacteria found in some of the wells," he said, "but it's nothing so far that can't be dealt with by chlorination. But we do want to find the source and head it off there, if it's possible. The river as a source of well contamination was i a clean bill of health by the Ohio Water Pollution board office here.

TESTS WERE conducted on wells along the Miami in Miamisburg and Franklin and it was found that the river's pollution had no adverse effect on the well water. "That may be," Singleton said, "but by the time the river reaches here, it's an i I Firemen Sign To Beat Phase 2 sonnel wanted to make a trial run before winter. The passengers on the mile-long trip were Kings Island officials and newsmen. Gary Wachs, amusement park manager, could not recall the last time he rode on a train. "It's been he said.

"I think that's why this will be an exciting ride. Nobody has been on a live steam train for years." WACHS REPORTED that the two trains, vintage railroad station, narrow-gauge tracks, and a trestle over a deep ravine represented an investment of $700,000. By DAVID LYON Daily News Staff Writer KINGS MILLS With no thanks to Amtrak, railroad passenger service returned to Warren county Wednesday. The occasion was the first run of the Kings Island and Miami Valley railroad at Taft Broadcasting company's amusement, park scheduled to open Apr. 89.

ONE OF THE two propane-fired steam locomotives had just arrived from a factory in Pennsylvania, and amusement park per- Each 25-ton locomotive will haul six cars with a total capacity of 480 persons, or up to 5,000 an hour at peak times. Wachs and other officials expressed satisfaction with the smooth ride and the appearance of the locomotive, brand-new but faithfully patterned after the old "General." Construction of the $22 million Kings Island amusement center is expected to be finished by the end of the year. It will be open week ends from Apr. 29 until Memorial Day, and open daily through the Summer. MIAMISBURG Miamisburg firemen, trying to avoid President Nixon's Phase 2 economic plans, signed a two-y'ear pact with the city this morning.

In a special city council meeting last Tuesday councilmen approved the contract. I 3f Dave Bowring's Something To Do River Funds On Dry Side other matter. Franklin, for instance, has been polluting it pretty badly with sewage. It's possible, of course, that the landfill has something to do with it that's what the study is to determine." Meanwhile, the source and GOG Unanimously Elects First Woman President I The union wanted the contract signed before the 90-day freeze expires without being sure of benefits it might gain from getting in ahead of Phase 2. At that point firemen can't be sure of getting all the raises called for in the contract but they did want in ahead of the 5.5 per cent raise if that was possible.

ROOKIE firefighters, under the new contract, will receive a 15 per cent boost in pay from $7,218 per year to $8,350. On the top end of the scale, senior firefighters are slated for a 12 per cent boost from their current $8,998 to $10,150 a year. Similar increases are called for in the middle grades, raising the entire department to parity with the police department pay scale: The contract, which expires July 31, 1973, calls for a $400 across-the-board increase i all grades during the second year. With the contract Mis-misburg firemen now join all other city employes in having major medical insurance paid by the city, as well as identi Minor Fire Cancels Youth Forum A minor fire at Jefferson high school Wednesday forced cancellation of the weekly Youth Forum program, co-sponsored by The Daily News and the University of Dayton. Students were evacuated from the school shortly after noon when smoke filled the building.

According to Jefferson Twp. school Supt. Herman Brown, someone apparently set fire to stage curtains in the gymnasium-auditorium. School officials extinguished the blaze before firemen arrived, he said. Brown said damage was minimal.

The Youth Forum, which was to have discussed space program, has not been rescheduled. LEBANON Little Miami the river preservation organization, seems to be running out of money long before the Little Miami river is assured of being preserved. The executive committee, meeting Wednesday night, expressed concern over the organization's financial i a-tion. The Nov, 1 balance was $2,741, the lowest it has been in a long time, THE EXECUTIVE committee decided to call a meeting even the quantity of cadmium and lead in several wells around the new Butler county landfill near Trenton remains a question. The well field surrounds the landfill and is near the Miami.

Samples taken by the Miami Conservancy district from wells in the area from December 1970, through April 1971, showed about two-thirds of the wells had either cadmium or lead in concentrations exceeding drinking water standards set by the United States Public Health service. ON A RE-CHECK, samples taken from the wells were submitted to two separate laboratories for a a 1 i and showed in most cases cadmium and lead levels well below the earlier readings and within Public Health service standards. However, readings from the two laboratories dif By JIM BLAND Daily News Staff Writer Delegates to the Miami Valley Council of Governments Wednesday night elected the only female representative of a member government to the position of president for a two-year term beginning Jan. 1. i Mrs.

Bonnie Macaulay, Oak-'. wood vice-mayor and initiator of the regional cable television study 'which has gained national. attention, was unani- mous choice to succeed Montgomery county Commissioner Charles Lewis. The meeting marked the last official appearance as delegates to the council by two of the organization's founders. Bowing out were Kettering Councilman Haver-stick, first president of the council that was established in January 1968, and Englewood Mrs.

Macaulay Mayor Donald Cromer, ther sought re-election. PLAN NOW for a nature hike through the Blincoe wildfowl area, Englewood reserve. WHAT: Hike theme is "The Marsh that Was," emphasizes marsh siltation, WHEN: 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Englewood reserve with parking on Ohio 440, east end of NOTE: No charge, public is invited. Outdoor writer Davt Bowrinq'i column appears in Tho Daily News sportssection on Tuesday, Thursday, Frioay and Sunday.

Nei- cal vacation and paid-holiday benefits. HAVERSTICK SAID council success will depend on "some sort of regional financing is going to have to be arranged" for coping with problems of a regional scope. Leland Johnson, head of the Rand Corp. team doing the CATV study under an $30,000 grant to COG by the Ford and Kettering foundations, e-ported on the team's activities and latest findings. He said Rand recommends a regional system because of economy and the broader range of program potential with better service to fringe areas.

The team currently is weighing four alternatives for ownership of the CATV system in the area municipal, nonprofit, limited profit and a combination of those. HE SUGGESTED as an interesting possibility the creation of a special cable authority, similar to a transit authority, with certain tax advantages that would turn back more money to the region for use in local programming. He said this approach would require state legislation. "If the regional community pursues a regional approach, the Ford foundation has an interest in lending funds at good interest rates for some of the project costs," Johnson reported. "The federal government could participate within the framework of their funding programs.

Children's Television workshop, creators of Sesame Street, have an interest in a system as proposed by the Rand Corp." Rand is to make its final report and recommendations in late wdecember. Delegates approved the hiring of John W. Kessler, 28, to head the public defender and bail bond program in the county. He was selected from among five applicants for the job. Apartments Big Trolwood Issue of the seven-member finance committee soon to study ways of raising additional funds.

Financial support for LMT comes mainly from donations by individuals, corporations, and foundations. Membership fees also help support the organization. Little Miami Inc. has an annual budget of about $25,000 to maintain an office staffed by its full-time director and a secretary. Other expenses include newsletter printing and postage costs, and telephone and travel expenses.

LITTLE MIAMI an or-ganization unique in Ohio, has led the effort to preserve the river in its natural state. It has succeeded in obtaining state scenic-river designation for the 105-mile waterway. Ray Culter, LMI director, said it would be "catastrophic for the river" if the organization has to call it quits now. "There has been no land acquisition, and federal designation is still hanging," Culter pointed out. He believes that purchase of riverside land or easements i necessary to preserve the river.

LMI also has led the fight to abate pollution and littering along the Little Miami. "I hope our faithful supporters don't get the false sense of security that the job is done," Culter observed. I v. 4 I i 2 TROTWOOD The time is drawing near for City to decide how many apartments to permit in city compared, to private homes and Mayor Edward JRausch doesn't know which way the councihyill decide. STAY INDOORS Outside Aii-Is Dirtier Than Usual Breathe easy, stay indoors with the windows closed and wear a mask if necessary.

Those are the suggestions from Dave Peden, chief of the environmental health section of the Montgomery county Combined Health department, when asked how to beat the extremely heavy air pollution in the city today. The Measure of Undesirable Respiratory Contaminat i reached 120 this morning under a local inversion. "Basically, we tell people to not exert themselves. That way they won't have to breathe so heavy," Peden said. The three rezoning hearings Daily News Photo by Bruct Ellison STUDENT DIES IIS CRASH Joanne Buschmann, 21, a senior at Cedarville 1 1 fe, was killed Wednesday when her car skidded off Ohio 72 near Springfield airport and struck a telephone pole.

Miss Buschmann, a Colorado native, was alone in the car. It was Clark county's 22nd traffic fatality in 1971. scheduled Monday are what Rausch calls "an accumulation" that built up while council wrestled with its conscience over the issue. "IF THE REZONINGS are approved," Rausch said, "we will be close to balance of apartments against single family dwellings. We haven't decided if that is- what we want." Other Montgomery county suburbs, most notably Englewood, and Vanda-'lia, face continuing outcries 'from homeowners as they try to strike a balance between "single family houses and multiple dwellings.

Trotwood council called in the Miami Valley Regional. Planning commission to help with the. decision. Assistant Director Clark Turner met 'with the Trotwood council a few 'times but Rausch said the wisdom the 1 a commission imparted was "consider each tract on its merits." RAUSCH SAID that many citizens have b.isn which way Trotwood going and Rausch assures it is not "anxious to be a bedroom community. We would love to attract more industry." Trotwood has an industrial park at the corner of Wolf Creek and Olive Rd.

in addition to the industrially zoned area along the railroad in the older part of the community. It also has a huge commercial base in the Salem Mall. Of the three tracts to be' considered Monday, one along Shiloh Springs Rd. west of the Salem Mall is a planned unit development. Rausch ex-plained that the developer must give a preciie plan as to how the area will look when completed.

HE SAID THE second tract, also on Shiloh Springs, probably will be a planned unit development. The third in the old part of Trotwood is simply an apartment zoning request. Rausch said that none of the present rezonings concern themselves with low or moderate housing units. In fact, he said that Madison including Trotwood, is one of two areas in a five-county area that lias achieved its quota of low or moderate hous-in" unit 1 other area is I UFO Fan Reports Something New Up There from Eaton where on July 7 a treetop flying object buzzed a car; from Vandalia on July 13; from Finlay St. in Middle-town on Sept.

22, where the man asked, "Please, tell me what the hell is going on?" and near Twin Creek on Nov. 2 where three people saw a ti'ant'lc of lights flying low, slow and without sound. BUT SAID a spokesman for the patrol post: "We get calls all the time from the kind of people who see this or that or, at least, think they see this or that." Bonnie, who has been in the sighting business for. more than 10 years, says the people are really seeing things, not just imagining. "I know they are ther she proclaims, "other- kt'." world about mysterious comings and goings in the atmosphere.

LAST THURSDAY Bonnie was out in her yard making a few routine sightings of what she calls "big gold lights going over very low." hen in the cast," she says, "I saw it. It looked like a big football. It came down below the thee line and hov By JIM NICHOLS Daily News Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN Bonnie Roman, who lived with her family in a century-old white house out where Yankee Rd. becomes country, has sighted something new in the sky. Bonnie's an old hand at unidentified flviir! object spotting.

In fact she's the editor of the Ohio-UFO News and writes n-u! talks to people all over the ered there. Then just like a light bulb, it turned off and was gone." Bonnie wasn't the only one seeing UFOs that night. A Middletown woman on Cur-ryer Rd. spotted it and reported it to a newspaper. In fact one paper had several calls and the log of the Ohio Highway Patrol in Middletown shows that it checked to see if there was cm official report.

ncnt in mid-summer when it slowed down in Australia and parts of Europe. But she calls what has been reported around here "localized phenomena, something close to the area." As many UFOs as she's seen, Bonnie can't get over the big one of last Thursday. "It didn't glow, but was trailing sin: says. "It was just like a scion; fiction movie." REPORTS ac 'I up on tlus ont.i- In fa- viiy p-c.