Water Rules Set to Cut Cancer Risk
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OB Sports.........4-OB m fH Water rules set to cut cancer risk WASHINGTON (UPI) - Citing a -^Using carbon filters for drinking large scale effort in history to deal our population to these chemicals Costle said EPA remains con monitoring their water within three serious public health threat, the En water plants whose ground or river with organic chemical contaminants poses a serious threat to public vinced that chlorine is still the best months after EPA issues final vironmental Protection Agency supplies are contaminated by organic in drinking water,” Costle said. health,” he told a news conference. kind of disinfectant. But be said regulations and would be required to today announced the first rules chemicals. .. "It will initiate changes on our ap “We are especially concerned about technology has reached the place meet the standard 15 months later. designed to reduce potential cancer- ' EPA Administrator Douglas Costle proach to protecting and assuring the the potential increase in cancer where it is now possible to have both All systems serving more than 10,- causing chemicals present in the said the rules would eventually effect quality of the water we drink, and risk.” chlorine and a method of treating its 000 people would have to test their nation's drinking water supplies. drinking water supplies used by 100 will give the American public an ‘in Chloroform has been shown to by-products, which are called water periodically for a year and The program, which could cost an million Americans. surance policy’ against the dangers cause cancer in test animals. It has trihalomethanes. give the results to EPA and to the initial $450 million, has two parts: He estimated the cost at up to $450 associated with chemicals in our been found in the drinking water The standard for chloroform and states. The agency said the smallest —Setting a standard for the amount million and annual operating costs of water.” supplies in many cities across the other THMs would be 100 parts per systems would be phased into the of chloroform and related chemicals $60 million with the average family Costle said the organic chemicals country and in recent years it was billion. That would apply initially program as soon as it is feasible, that may be present in tap water as a water bill in some areas rising by identified so far in drinking water revealed that part of it was coming only to community water systems based on information as it comes in. result of the use of chlorine to dis-' some $6 to $10 per year. are present in low concentrations. from the use of chlorine to disinfect serving more than 75,000 people. The second half of the proposal infect supplies. “This marks the start of the first “Even so. the lifetime exposure of water. Those systems would have to begin —See Page Ten-A Crews ready Air clear for flooding near site By GREG PEARSON The National Weather Service of crash Herald Reporter issued a flash flood warning for The Town of Manchester began Connecticut and the entire New OTTAWA (UPI) — Ground crews working today to prepare for possible England area except Cape Cod. A failed to find any evidence of flooding problems, and town officials travelers’ advisory is in effect in radioactivity at the only major pop crossed their fingers that the state Vermont and gale warnings have ulation center in an area of northern will provide some funds for a been issued for the Maine and New Canada where a nuclear-powered depleted snow-removal account. Hampshire coasts. Soviet spy satellite disappeared, a Manchester, like most towns in Schools in M anchester closed defense department spokesman said Connecticut, used much of its snow- today, the third closing because of today. removal budget during the past two weather this year. These days will Air samples obtained by American weeks when three large storms have to be madd up at the end of the U-2 and KC-135 detector craft high brought heavy snow, sleet and rain. year since no^snow days are above the spot near Great Slave Lake Gov. Ella Grasso today asked the scheduled, Wilson Deakin, assistant in the Northwest Territories where Legislature for $2 million in state superintendent of schools, said. the runaway Cosmos satellite funds to help alleviate cities and There was some confusion thi9 dropped from radar Tuesday were towns meet snow-removal costs. morning because it originally was an being analyzed, spokesman Doug Highway Department workers in nounced that schools would open one Caie said. Manchester began sanding roads this hour late. He said a 22-man Nuclear Accident morning as a freezing rain caused icy “We thought we could go an hour Support Team equipped with Geiger roads. Workers also began clearing late. But, as it got later, the roads counters conducted five sweeps in catch basins in anticipation of possi didn’t improve,” Deakin said. and around Yellowknife, the largest ble flooding if projected rains and In a weather-related matter. Town community in the remote Northwest warmer temperatures continue Manager Robert Weiss issued a Greeting Israeli visitor Territories and reported no traces of statement Tuesday that said the town through tonight. Sol Cohen, left, talks with Avner Adini of Tel-Aviv, one of the Israelis who arrived at radiation. will not assist property owners in The Cosmos was thought to have clearing sidewalks and drives. Bradley Field Tuesday night on the Friendship Flight. Adini, a lawyer, will be hosted by dropped from orbit and disintegrated Clearing of the walks in front of David Wichman of Manchester, center, also a lawyer, and Cohen's son-in-law. Stories and near the Great Slave Lake, where Rights panel homes and the private walks and other photos on page 2A. (Herald photo by Dunn) Yellowknife is located. drives is the responsibility of the The first Canadian craft involved mulls hiring property owner. The owner must in the probe — a Hercules equipped take steps to remove snow and with a U.S. loaned radiation detec remove or sand ice within 12 hours Egypt ends news war; tion pod — started searching a 25,000- investigator after a storm or else a $20 fine can be square-mile zone for ground-level imposed by the Police Department. remnants of the Soviet satellite early By ALICE EVANS Weiss said that the Highway today. Herald Reporter Department did assist private Caie said the Hercules, which property owners when it was felt that asks U.S. for support planned an 11-hour sweep along a 450- Manchester's Citizens Advisory improper plowing or an unusual cir Committee may be asked to approve mile trajectory at an altitude of cumstance led to the private walks CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) - Egypt “compliments to Mr. Begin.” But he brought quick pressure on Israel, “It Community Development funds to between 1,500 and 2,000 feet, was the being covered by town crews. ended its press attacks on Israeli did accuse the Israeli leader of will be giving a full opportunity to the provide a staff investigator for the first of three such aircraft to be When the m a n a g e r’s office Soviet Union and its' hirelings to town’s Human Relations Commis Prime Minister Menachem Begin “intellectual terrorism” for making thrown into the search this morning. received complaints about such today, but appealed to the United a resumption of negotiations con succeed in sabotaging the great Each Hercules carried five U.S. sion. matters, he relayed the complaints hopes and deep confidence the Arab If a staff investigator is provided States to put more pressure on the ditional on a toning down of Egyptian technical experts to operate the to the Highway Department to in for the commission, the hiring of the Jewish state or face Increased Soviet press criticism. peoples have pinned on the soundness radiation monitor pods, plus the nor vestigate them. Weiss said that the and capability of the American Urban League of Greater Hartford to meddling in the Middle Bast. No other newspaper printed per mal complement of Canadian air department misinterpreted this to Cairo sources said the government position.” crew. act as the town’s fair housing consul sonal attacks on Begin today. But, mean it was to clear these sites. ordered the three main state- echoing what diplomats described as Hard-line Arab countries Tuesday Caie said that at daybreak two tant will not be considered at this Timothy O’Sullivan, highway controlled newspapers to stop their Sadat's dissatisfaction With U.S. announced new moves to counter small Twin Otter aircraft would time. superintendent, had criticized the vitriolic campaign against Begin policy, they called for much stronger Egypt’s stalled peace drive with The hiring of an investigator was begii^^a visual search of the area. town for the practice of clearing following a meeting between Presi American pressure to soften Israel’s Israel, but moderate Saudi Arabia discussed Tuesday during a general d tliS a ls in both Ottawa and private areas.