Ukiah Daily Journal from Ukiah, California • Page 3

Do you think formaldehyde is harmful? Kathy Dixon Sales clerk, Ukiah I don't know that much about It except that they cut our water off. I would like to find out more about it. Right now I don't know enough to be worried. Ann Oliver Teacher, Redwood Valley Definitely. No question about If the EPA is worried about urea-formaldehyde in 10 million American homes, I think that is pretty good indication that it is harmful.

1 think it should be better, Including vandal-proof valves if they are going to leave it in a box car overnight. Roger Dixon Human, Akron I've been using it on my cereal every morning for 20 years and It hasn't hurt me. But I would hope this spill will alert people to the dangers of formaldehyde, whether in the air you breath, in the water or in the products that come out of that plant. It's a shame people only become concerned only when there is a threat of dying immediately. They don't see it as a threat while they die slowly every day.

Barry Wood Former mayor, Ukiah When the constuction of a formaldehyde plant on the outskirts of Ukiah was discussed years ago, I had it put on the city council agenda because of my fears of that chemical. Plans were stopped and I breathed easier no pun intended. Now again I am Very concerned, because I believe it is a very dangerous substance. Retired, Jewell Eberhard Ukiah don't lnow anything about it, but they evacuated me from Autumn Leaves where I live so they seem to have taken the right precautions. Everybody involved was so nice and helpful.

They served us lunch and gave us donuts. It was not a problem at all. Shop ci home with J.C. l'Vnney Catalog HOME DELIVERY s.n tune. sc of or del ino, ith Hi iii line.

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State Ukiah PH 462-8615 PENNER is youi one-stop to complete insurance protection Stage Band scores at Pleasanton; bandsmen 'on the Saturday wJJ. a Monday, March 29,1982 ukiah Dally Journal, Ukiah, Calif By GLENN ERICKSON Journal Staff Writer Uklahl's Stage Band members returned late Saturday from a day-long Jazz (Stage) Band competition at Amador High School, Pleasanton, with a possible third place in their division their first Stage Band competition ever under Band Director Rowland Nielson. This coming Saturday, the 20 or more members of the Uklahi Stage Band will Join with scores of other Ukiahi Wildcat band units participating in the annual Uklahi Band Run-A-Thon, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the new Ukiahi track.

Members of the band will run 100-miles (or 12- hours) and actually will be gunning for the band record of 10-hours, 22-minutes, 15-seconds, set last year. Band members are hopeful that parents and friends in the community will pledge whatever they can from a penny to perhaps even $2 per mile run in an effort to raise funds for the Ukiahi band trip to National City, San Diego County, in May. The band is seeking to raise $18,000 for transportation and lodging through various means. Persons (Continued from Page 1) The leak came Just as the first cloud of chemical was leaving the Russian River water system through Jenner and dissipating in the ocean. Formaldehyde concentration in the river, which had dropped to acceptable levels, shot back up to 10 times the federal health standards at Talmage, and in Hopland, and four times the maximum allowed.

But Dickens, the official spokesman for spill control teams, said the threat posed by heavy rainfall carrying what's left of the contaminants over the dam is the most serious yet. Rain and snow are predicted through tomorrow. Officials trapped most of the 50 percent formaldehyde solution spilled from the car behind the dam. Though in excess of one million gallons of formaldehyde- laced water has been pumped out from behind the dam, the small leak from the weak embankment was enough to shoot river levels into the danger zone. A major flood over the dam could carry the heaviest concentration of toxins yet into the Russian.

"We already think we're going to lose some of our diversion dams" designed block off other wishing to donate any amount to the band, for the run or the trip itself, may do so by contacting Rowland Nielson at 462-0201 extension 249. ii? Nielson reports the Saturday first Stage Band competition by Ukiahi was a positive, experience, even above and beyond whatever final placing the Ukiahi musicians might have earned. "I felt the students played very well," reports Nielson. Judges provided helpful and favorable comments on the performance of Ukiahi musicians, lauding the ensemble work of the group. In addition, the day provided an opportunity for an extensive clinic by Max Fox, a featured first-chair trumpeter at University of the Pacific, then the United States Navy Band, Washington D.C.; and in his later professional life a first-chair trumpet player for Stan Kenton's famed Jazz group.

Youngsters from the 20 to 30 schools attending the Amador competition also "ate up" several hours of swinging Dixieland Jazz interpretation and instruction. "It was a real fun and educational experience for every musician," Nielson noted. drainage ditches from Doolin Creek, Dickens said. "I don't think we're going to be able to hold it." The first lethal dose of formaldehyde was released early Thursday morning, when a tanker car parked on railraod sidetracks near Gobbi St. was vandalized.

The valve on the car was opened, and 20,000 gallons of the toxin entered a drainage ditch leading to the Russian River. Dickens said 50 tanker trucks, 18 vaccuum trucks and 43 railroad tankers are now in use to pump contaminated water out and truck it to a hazardous waste site in Martinez, Calif. More than 100 railroad and IT Corporation personnel, hired by Southern-Pacific Railroad, the lead agency in the clean-up, are on the job, as well as 50 people from county emergency, environmental health and state water quality and fish and game agencies. But it's not enough to keep up with the challenge posed this morning by Mother Nature. "Murphy's Law in action is what your story should be called," said one railroad worker this morning, taking cover from the sheets of snow in the anteroom to spill control command headquarters at the train station.

Murphy's Law, a lection of slogans made popular in books and posters, dictates that whatever can go wrong, will. Sunday, railroad workers at the dam site said the creekbed had been pumped almost bone dry before the rain started. Even yesterday, the water level was only inches below the embankment. Dickens said some groundwater seepage is also suspected in the orchard cradling Doolin Creek, which is having an unkown effect on the Russian River water quality. Orchard owner Bill Johnson said the effect of the contamination on his Bartlett pears is impossible to know at this point.

"Nobody knows, but these guys are working real hard and doing a real good Job." Officials advise against using private wells within 100 feet of the river or the creek, and some city water taps have been installed in areas with many wells, notably Robinson Lane. Willow Water, serving south Ukiah, River Estates and Hopland will continue, using emergency water supplies or city water hook- ins, as far as is known at the present time. River Road near Talmage was closed today to ease truck access for the clean-up. WAT WELLS 462-9080 Week's Drilling Pump Company 3460 N. State St.

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