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iKmidtpatfr Pool water under ^tudy had to siphon water over the dam By KEVIN EOEEA lli-rulil Ki-porler into the pool with a fire hose " £tJfntng I since 1881 • 26k M ANCMKS'l'KK — The results of a Five-hundred'gallons of water per Voi. XCIX. No. 237 — Manchester, Conn., Tuegday, July B, 1980 swimmer per day should flow water test completed last week on through the pool daily, Giles said, but the 'Globe HoJlow swimming pool his estimates revealed that only ’ revealed that "fecal organisms ’ had about 2,(KK) gallons of water enter the leached into the pool, according to pool through the hose. Health Department Director Dr. "With up to 1,000 people in the pool- Alice Turck. who said Monday while on any given weekend day, we'd need the area will remain open, her department will be watching the pop 500.000 gallons of water flowing through the pool to keep it cleansed ular swimming area closely in the coming weeks We're lucky il we have 2,000 now. " he said "We re repeating the test with the idea that there might have been .some error, " Dr. Turek said "But the Giles blamed a lack ol significant results arc certainly not what we rainfall so far this season and added expected." that he would not hesitate to order I In until last week. Dr Turek went the pool closed if Globe Hollow reser on. water samples from the pool had voir drops to a dangerously low level been ot ''very good " quality, "I have to look out for the drinking however, samples taken last Monday water in town. too. " he remarked revealed the bacteria which Dr. "So I've told ireercation director' lurok theorizes seeped Into the pool Mel Sicbold and > parks director' Boh Irom sources higher up the water Harrison Td permit the siphoning for table now. But it the reservoir drops "Probably Irom small animals." lurther, I II close the pool Dr. Turek said. Her department has Dr. Turek stressed that the pool's received no complaints to date. water was suitable lor swimJx.ing. Compounding problems at Globe despite the bacteria found last week HolKiw was the disclosure this mor but added that il Globe Hollow pool ning by Public Works Director Jay J were subJect to the same standards Giles that Globe Hollow reservoir, as the (.'ther swimming pools in town. which feeds the pool via a spillway, It would have been .dosed As a was low and that only a fraction ot natural body ol water it passed, sJJ^- the water which should be circulating said. "But as a pool it lailed ' through the pool actually is . There is no standard circulating- "We apply the standard lor na'ur.il tillration system as in the other pools bodies ol water tor Globe Hollow in town." Giles said. "Water comes But il doesn't have the same kind ol over the spillway Irom the reservoir dilution lakes and ponds have It snot into the pool and then leaves over a controlled situalion. iJr Turek another spillwav But lately, we've added Cockatoo cone Rules ease Eileen Connor of 372 Bush Hill Road, Manchester, shares her took place on Hartford Road where Ms. Connor, was taking a ice cream cone with her pet albino cockatoo, “Sinbad" (left break while her laundry was being done. (Herald photos by photol. At right, “Sinbad" cleans up after his feasL The event Pinto) duplex sales 'The change, was requested soleK By MARY KITZMAW tor Residence (’ zones which .illow.s Herulll llcporler duplexes and also ollice conversiorg- Battle could affect nukes M \\(,IIT> TER - A change in the This restri( lion w.is made as Citizens Energy Labor Coalition and HARTFORD tUPIl — A group of The proposed rates also were at Others argued the rate hike would zoning regulations, approved by the Blanchard and Rossetio have several unlikely allies and Northeast the Connecticut Conference of tacked as an attempt by the giant liqancially place an unfair burden on1 I’lanmng and Zoning Commission properties in C zones they believe Utilities have started the battle over Municipalities, utility to rekindle investrpent in strapped consumers. last night, will allow Joint ownership will be helped by Ihe change a record $177 million rate hike that Northeast contends revenue-eating te re st in construction of the “I don't see the necessity of of duplex homes in Residence C However, a consensus ol com could have far reaching effects on inflation requires the 16.7 percent Millstone III plant in Waterford — at building another plant. " said Frank zones. missioners believed consideration the future of nuclear power in hike for its customers in 156 of the expense of state consumers. Fisrher, who spoke on behalf ot West The I’ZC unanimousK' approved should also be given to extending the Connecticut. Connecticut's 169 municipalities who Thomas McCormick, of the anti Hartford Senior Citizens. the request of Blanchard and Rosset- amendment to Residence H /ones A coalition of anti-nuclear, get power from Connecticut Light nuclear Hartford Clamshell Alliance, "The youn^ people can't alford to Construction Inc . to allow In about 8 months, the I’^U -will business and government groups and Power Co. an^J Hartford Electric said Northeast was attempting to higher prices. The people with .separate ownership of each half of a review the effects ol the amendment were on hand Monday as the state Light Co. raise their profit levels to attract in families can't afford them And ol duplex home and its lot. and consider its extension A Division of Pubfc Utility Control In addition, the utility has asked vestors, who are becoming in course we who don't have much The change places the price ol a Residence B zone difters Irom (' as it began the lengthJJprocess of deciding for to increase natural gas rates by creasingly wary of investing in longer to live can't afford them ' single residence in the building has lesser density and does not per how much — if afiy — of an increase 16.4 percent, affecting customers in nuclear power. within the range ol many families mit olfice conversions Both zones Northeast will get. Lou Kiefer, roehairman ol the 45 cities and towns. "This request for higher rates will who could not aflord both units. have duplexes In one of its first actions in the Connecticut Citizen Labor Energy Initial testimony before the DPUC be but one in a long series to finance Coalition, said the rate hike was un David Keith, attorney representing While Keith explained lh.it double case, the DPUC granted intervenor wasn't about the inflationary ownership would help m.iny persons the construction of Millstongklll, " he Justified, and resulted Irom the developers told Ihe commission status to the groups opposing the pressure facing Northeast, but said. Northeasts revolving door approach Although Joint ownership of a purchase a Joint home he said ihe hike, allowing them to argue against centered on an attack on nuclear The alliance has asked the U S. to stockholder funding. duplex was not prohibited by zoning change would not he true eon- the request over a summer of power and the construction of Department of Energy to intervene “We no sooner begin paying the regulations, many prospective dominium " ownership hearings throughout the state. Connecticut’s fourth nuclear plant by in the rate case to refute Northeast’s buyers encountered difficulties The two owners ot the duplex last record increase when we are "We're optimistic that nowhere Northeast. argument that construction of the linaneing the purchase ot half a would have no propertv in common faced with the threat of another huge near the $177 .million rate request A West Hartford mother, with her $2.2 billion Millstone III will reduce duplex .Many hanks were reluctant except the lirew.ill. whicti must he a hike," he said. will .be approved, " said state Con infant son.on her lap, told the DPUC vertical wall belwoen the resideiu es dependence on costly foreign oil. Last .January, NorthcasI put into to mortgage these properties sumer Counsel Barry Zitscr, one of she opposed the rate hike. McCormick also claimed effect an $86 I million rate increase Zoning'regulations specify the In a condominium ihe grounds arc those granted intervenor status. "I’m concerned about the danger Northeast, which already operates If approved, the latest hike would sideyard requirements for single Joinl-owned The other groups included the of low-level radiation, said Pat two nuclear plants at Waterford and boost the average CL&P customer's dwellings As one side of a duplex is a Requirements lor condomiuniiims Connecticut Business and Industry Lawrence. There is no such thing as a the Connecticut Yankee plant in Had- current $45.47 a month bill to $.55,65 lire wall, the ab.sence of the sideyard also state that eaeli unit must have li Association, the Connecticut Citizens harmless amount. It is harming peo dam, had overstated the need for ad while the average HEL(T) monihly makes, the building non-conforming separate healing facility Com- Action Group, the Connecticut ple and it is causing cancer." ditional electricity in Connecticut. hill would go from $48,17 to $58.99 lor single dwellings rnissioner William Ra>cr qiieslioned whclher this would apply lo scp.ii'.itc The zoning amendmeni allows the building, and the lot to be* divided, ownership ol duplexes without Ihe sideyard requirement ol The commission agreed ih.il il would not, and that the structure single dwellings care center started .■According to William Hale.