The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 40

"1 PrC Dm IS, 1ftO Acid pit purge would take 1 "uJ. "f-m A 1 disposal sites in Riverside County. At present, polluted waste water is being trucked 35 miles to the BKK disposal site north of Covina. The estimated cost of total removal to BKK is slightly less than $16 million. However, residents near the site are trying to halt the operation.

Richard Anderton, a supervising engineer for James M. Montgomery, Consulting Engineers said only four of seven sites in Southern California are considered reasonable locations to receive the Stringfellow wastes. Montgomery Engineers was retained by the water board in recent years to prepare studies of alternative methods for abating the Stringfellow problem. Anderton Thursday reported on the most recent updating of the studies. The estimated cost of using BKK is $15.5 million, he said.

Using the Simi Valley Landfill would cost Kettleman Hills northwest of Bakersfield, and Casmalia near Ventura, $40,700,000. These costs are for transportation and dumping privileges only, and do not include loading and cleanup costs at the Stringfellow site, he said. The other sites are farther away and would cost more to use, he said. The proposal to move the toxic wastes is "the most expensive of all the alternatives considered," Anderton said. "Similar meetings (of residents) would probably have to be held at whatever site is accepted.

dential "determination of cost effectiveness or a finding of a continual threat to public health," he said. The superfund does not represent an assured source of money for removal from site," he added. Anderson said six million gallons of waste have been removed from the pits, and slopes have been tripled in height to help contain polluted waters during this winter's rains. "We scraped everything clean around the edges (of the pit sitei." he said. Nearly $1 million has been spent since August $560,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency, and $425,000 in state funds, he added.

The worst problem at Stringfellow Is probably DDT dumped in top pits, he said. This is classified as "ultranazardous" he added. He recommended cleaning out a bottom pit and using it to concentrate all of the pollutants, Including the DDT, from pits above. Pollutants would be chemically encapsulated to keep them from being carried downstream. Later removal of such pollutants "may cost more than $16 million," he said, "but at least (this would) eliminate runoff potential.

"I need a new directive (from the board) to do that." This operation, he added, would provide time to determine how hazardous the wastes really are. If they are determined to be less hazardous than is now believed, it might be possible to take them to Class 2 (Continued from B-5 Staff members had recommended instead that pollutants be sealed in place at a cost of $3 million. This may now be done as a temporary measure. The cost of moving pollutant from Stringfellow is now estimated at between $16 million and $41 million, depending on which of four alternate sites can be obtained. This money does not include the cost of protecting downstream communities against overflow from the pits during anticipated heavy winter rains.

That work is being done with the help of a $4 million grant voted by the state Water Resources Control Board last July. James W. Anderson, executive officer of the board, told workshop participants it would require 25,000 truckloads to haul polluted soil and water to an alternate site. 'If we could haul three (truckloads in an hour," he said, "it would take us 1,000 days. "It could be two or three winters (before the job is done)." Congressional approval last week of a $1.6 billion "superfund" will not speed the Str-ingfellow cleanup, the workshop was told.

Jake McKenzie, a representative of the federal Environmental Protection Agency in San Francisco, pointed out that Congress has adjourned until 1981 without appropriating money to start the superfund. Even after funds are appropriated, approval of site cleanouts will require a presi daaaaaaav- aa i a a a THEIR TORY Gasification plant gets tentative OK A three part series appearing Sunday, Monday and Tuesday in The newspaper for San Bernardino County earmarked for funding. Lester Wilkes, a Texaco official in charge of the company's alternative fuels program, said the consortium includes Southern California Edison, General Electric, and the Electric Power Research Institute all of which have contributed $25 million to fund the project. In addition, he said, Texaco is in "the final stages of negotiation with quite a few other companies which brings us very close to the required level of funding." of power at Southern California Edison's adjacent electric generating plant. An energy department spokesman said the federal funds would be used as "seed money" that will probably be repaid, depending upon the terms of the contract the agency signs with the consortium.

"If the thing pans out, the government does expect to get its money back in some form or another," the spokesman said. The Daggett project was one of 79 alternative fuel projects around the country By JAMES NICKLES Sun Staff Writer DAGGETT An experimental coal gasification plant planned near here has won tentative Department of Energy approval for $25 million in federal funds, officials announced Thursday. The $300 million Coolwater Coal Gasification Program, proposed by a consortium of companies headed by Texaco, would convert 1,000 tons of coal to gas each day. The fuel would generate 100 megawatts Goggin says he casino field in recent years, but law enforcement agencies still are kept busy investigating mob activity in the industry. The Chicago Tribune reported last week that the Internal Revenue Service has launched a major new investigation of allegations that millions in casino profits are being "skimmed" and winding up in the hands of Midwest and East Coast mafia figures.

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