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PAGE 2, HUDSPETH COUNTY HERALD-Dell Valley Review, NOV. 28,1986
Hazardous Waste Fact Sheet
PAUL HARVEY NEWS
RE-LEARNING TO WALK
J
MEMBER 1986
WIPP was there, they could drill a hole
studies that tentatively concluded water
la Sal, a site closer to WIPP than the
TA
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
Second class postage paid in Dell City, Texas 79837
Subsidiary MARY-MARY, INC.
' 'Pind Out Just What People Will Submit to . .
There is something especially galling about the
idea of rewarding a respect for life, for human rights, for
refusal to participate in moral outrages, with a jail sentence—
and at the same time rewarding duplicity, connivance, fraud,
and deception with a high government salary. But that is. of
course, precisely the expectation if we really understand what
Frederick Douglass told us over 100 years ago:
“FIND OUT JUST WHAT PEOPLE WILL SUBMIT TO,
AND YOU HAVE FOUND OUT THE EXACT AMOUNT
OF INJUSTICE AND WRONG WHICH WILL BE IMPOSED
UPON THEM.” -Dr.John Gofman
“An Irreverent Illustrated View of Nuclear Power”
• There are about 2000 industrial
hazardous waste generators in Texas,
each producing more than 1000
kilograms of waste per month. In
addition, there are tens of thousands of
“small quantity generators” which for
the first time will be regulated if they
produce between 100 kg and 1000 kg
per month (220-2200 lb).
• In May 1986 there were 430 waste
storage, processing and disposal
facilities in Texas, including 200 land
disposal facilities. Closure plans have
been submitted for 90-100 of the 200
land disposal facilities.
• The most serious problem caused
by land disposal methods is
contamination of groundwater. One
half of all Americans and one half of all
Texans rely on groundwater for their
drinking water. In addition, 85 percent
of all rural Texans depend on
groundwater for their drinking water.
• Texas ranks first in the nation in
the amount of hazardous chemical,
waste its industries produce. In 1983,
Texas produced 38 million tons or
about 5000 lb. of hazardous waste for
every person in Texas, which is 13
percent of total U.S. production of 300
million tons. An additional 100,000
Parents announce with pride the day baby has learned to walk.
Baby’s first steps are a significant accomplishment, An infinite
number of complex nerves and muscles must function in coordina-
tion for baby to take his first steps.
Then, starting in the teen years, Americans tend to seek ways and
means of “not walking.”
And where motorized vehicles are a convenience, they contribute
more to lethargy and atrophy and obesity than to physical fitness.
In Marlboro, Mass., the Rockport Walking Institute has been estab-
lished for the purpose of re-teaching Americans to walk.
Walking is the number one participant sport in the United States. Of
the 70 million Americans who do some form of aerobic exercise, most
(5 3 percent) are engaged in regular walking.
But most still don’t know how.
Walking for physical fitness requires walking at a sufficiently brisk
pace to maintain your heart rate in a target training zone. The goal
of fitness walking is strengthening your heart.
So .. . anyone in reasonably good health should walk faster than
three miles an hour. Four miles an hour is a brisk pace.
Fitness walking bums virtually the same number of calories as does
running a comparable distance -- yet without the potential for otrho-
pedic injuries.
Walking improves cardiovascular efficiency, may lower blood press-
ure, relieves stress, reduces body fat, strengthens leg and abdominal
muscles and may improve the quality of sleep.
How much is enough. Forty-five minutes a day at four miles an hour
is great!
If you cannot afford that much time, take thirty minutes three times
a week and increase cardiovascular fitness by 8 to 15 percent.
What I have just related is gleaned from the present best knowledge
of the scientists and clinicians who have converged to help Rockport
Walking Institute understand the physiology of walking.
Dr. James M. Rippe, University of Massachusetts, directs that institu-
tion’s Exercise and Physiology Laboratory. He is convinced that
the medical profession must pay more attention to promoting exer-
cise. “We feel that continuation of research will help to establish walk-
ing as an excellent aerobic workout and an extremely beneficial exer-
cise to strengthen the heart.”
Edward Payson Weston, “father of pedestrianism,” once described
walking as “like a perfect massage for easing and relaxing muscles --
but unlike a massage, it will also strengthen the muscles - including
the heart muscle.”
(c) 1986, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Marriage is when a man gets hooked with his own line.
—Super Service Station Magazine
tons of hazardous waste material is
produced each day in Texas.
• Most hazardous waste is disposed
of “on-site” using land disposal
measures—buried in landfills, placed in
surface pits, ponds or lagoons, or
injected into deep wells.
• The largest volume of hazardous
waste in Texas is disposed of in
underground disposal wells (injection
Avells). The Texas Water Commission
estimates that volume to be 6 billion
gallons annually. There are 90
hazardous waste deep wells in Texas.
• EPA and the state are inspecting
more than 1000 additional potential
hazardous waste sites that may be a
problem—475 of them are pesticide
aerial applicator sites and 850 are
pesticide ground applicator sites.
• There are 26 sites in Texas eligible
for Superfunds and many more which
could be a problem. Every identified
superfund site is leaking and
contaminating groundwater.
• Groundwater contamination by
hazardous waste can cause cancer, birth
defects, miscarriages, nervous
disorders, blood diseases and damage
to vital organs and genes.
Mary Louise Lynch Editor-Publisher
Nancy Lewis, Mary Gentry Assistants & Advertising
Joyce Gilmore Salt Flat Editor
C. Warren, ...« Crow Flat Editor
Linda Pollq. . Ft. Hancock Editor
Bernice M. Elder Sierra Blanca Editor
Jean Ellison. .Courthouse News
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PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK for Hudspeth County,
Texas, third largest county. Notices of church, entertainments
where a charge of admission is made, card of thanks, resolu-
tions of respect, and all matter not news, will be charged at
the regular rates.
SUBSCRIPTIONS: $9.46 iq County. $10.51 Out of County
Division that oversees WIPP. tections to reduce the risk of releasing
Chapman said Energy Department radioactivity.
studies that tentatively concluded water The study also says ground water
in the Rustler Formation has not been might be discharging at a salt lake, the
replaced in thousands of years are “pre- Surprise Spring in Laguana Grande de
mature end incorrect.” I_ ZJ, JT L '* /
The water-bearing Rustler Formation Pecos River. Radioactive nuclides at
is about 1,500 feet above the WIPP site, the lake would represent a greater
which is 2,200 feet underground in mas- health risk.
Since these referred to 26 superfund sites, plus dozens of other in
the state, have already suffered the social and economic disasters associated
with hazardous waste dumps, and the areas are forever contaminated, it might
be conceivable to locate a radioactive dump in these blighted areas. WHY
spread the contamination further into areas that are highly productive and
rich in natural resources?. (Discussions in a recent El Paso meeting
with Hudspeth County and El Paso Concerned Citizens)
State contradicts report
on water above WIPP site
(El Paso Times, Friday, November 21,1986)
SANTA FE (AP) — A state study con- sive salt beds.
tradicts a U.S. Department of Energy Chapman said her comparison of the'
report that says water is stagnant above WIPP site water with water from near-
the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant south- by sites showed similar characteristics,
east of Carlsbad. indicating the water is as fresh as most
The state report says more studies of other ground water in the area.
water flow above WIPP are needed to She said the higher risk of contamina-
ensure the Pecos River and other water tion would only be important if someone
supplies are not in danger of being con- were to drill into the site.
taminated. “WIPP is in the middle of an oil- and
WIPP is a $2.1 billion Department of gas-producing area,” she said. “There
Energy repository for low- and interme- is a good probability that sometime in
diate-level nuclear waste from the na- the future, if somebody didn’t know
tion’s military and weapons program. WIPP was there, they could drill a hole
The water movement means the risk right through it.”
of contamination of the Pecos River Chapman also said it might be more
might be greater than the Energy De- difficult than the Energy Department
partment contends, said study author thought for the government to comply
Jenny Chapman, a hydrologist for the with U.S. Environmental Protection
Environmental Evaluation Group. The Agency regulations governing manage-
group is a federally financed branch of ment and disposal of spent nuclear fuel,
the state Environmental Improvement Parts of those regulations require pro- J
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