European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 05, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the Tarsan stripes thursday june 5, 1980 new York sea gulls circled in the rain falling on the Din Hills of the Landfill which rises 172 feet out of Flat Sandy Long Island at Farmingdale. It takes up 80 acres and has been used for waste since the 1940s. A sign at the Entrance says it is the town of Babylon s waste disposal Center. On one of the maps in the office of the new York state health com missioner in Albany the Landfill is circled in Blue because it is considered a danger to the health of the people who live near it. Which could take in Many people for the rain drumming on the Hill of waste seeped through and went into the ground where the water that people drink is Only 20 and 30 feet below the surface. No one knows How far contaminated water travels. In Iowa one dump carrying arsenic migrated so Miles under ground. And on Long Island just out from Babylon in the Islip dump the 39-year-old waste grounds have been found to have produced a plume a slug of contaminated ground water that was a mile Long 1,300 feet wide 170 feet deep and had contaminated i billion Gallons of ground water. On Long Island recently cameras and re porters were out at a place called Hauppauge where a school has been closed because of toxic chemicals found in drinking water. In the Way of the news Hauppauge was being measured As a new love canal which is the Community at Niagara Falls that was declared an Emer gency area by president Carter because of chemical pollution. Hauppauge however one stale official said would not make it into the love canal class in the flow of daily news. But it really did t matter he said because All of Long Island is expected to become perhaps the largest environmental Story we be had. With its 1.9 million houses packed on Flat land with its single source of water Supply being ground water Tang Island is defenceless against the Way people live their lives. People on Long Island use too much water and Salt water from the Ocean and the Bays is starting to harm the lower ground water. Long Island s waste contaminates great supplies of water. On the Eastern end potato Farmers As they must under Federal ruling Spray their crops with a pesticide that combats the Colora do potato Beetle and the Golden nematode and then gets into Well water and poisons those who drink it. In the area around Bethpage and Farmingdale chromium sludge moves through the ground water toward the Ocean. Once War planes from aircraft plants in the area drove the germans and japanese out of the skies. Now 35 years later chromium from the War plants seeps into the drinking water in panic ulate form. Children Are in danger of being poisoned by the same War that their grandfathers fought and won. Michael Brown is the author of a Book called laying waste and thus becomes at 28, a giant of his business. The subtitle to laying is the poisoning of America by toxic it was Michael Brown working for a newspaper who brought love canal to attention. Nature was caught off guard utterly unprepared for this onslaught of artificial elements Michael Brown writes. Brown had $15 in his pocket and was on unemployment insurance when he took a $150 a Weck Job at the Niagara Gazette in 1977. One Day he went out to do a Story about i want Vou compam4 co Mampe & to Ute Raul a in fog out it. Pm l6h by Mike gangsters in the waste disposal business in the town of Porter . At a meeting a woman got up and said i m from love canal. Don t act them do to you what they did to the woman began to cry. Michael Brown went to love canal. A woman there showed him her baby. The baby had been born with eight deformities. Michael Brown stayed and wrote about love year he took a $15,000 Advance from pantheon the Manhattan publishing House and moved into one room on 76th Street in Manhattan. He spent $11,000 of the Advance on research. He expected to lose Money doing the Book. Which was unimportant to him. He Felt that Poison in the drinking water through out the nation was a suitable topic to write Book is out now just As love canal is finally declared a National emergency. With a work such As this Book on hand people will begin to realize that if they Don t make alterations for the future there simply will not be a future. As Michael Brown says in his last paragraph there is in the end one fundamental thought our lives Are dependent upon an Earth which can fortunately absorb considerable abuse but whose limits of resilience have been exceeded in numerous places. Our arrogance and our Sci Cnoc have implanted in the life sus Taining soils and Waters toxic substances with which they and we cannot contend. Only when we acknowledge our Folly and temper our greed will our society begin to conform to the needs of the nature outside and inside our selves. And Only then will we be sure that what rises from the ground or what is in our air or Rivers will be As it ought the source of life and Good health and not the agents of an unti Mely Oil spills from ship by Sweden Denmark Stockholm a some 500-ton heavy Oil leaked out in the Oer sound Strait Between hols Ingborg on the swedish coast and Hal Singer on the danish Side when a danish passenger ferry collided with a swedish Oil Tanker authorities said. No one was reported injured and the passenger ferry could continue to Helsinger. Across 1 throw j Shelley was one 8 Combine 12 Border 13 easier Plant m scandinavian Coin is one eyed 17 prefix with age and Sareil ii Long John Silver had one u seat of u. Of Maine is Bone n aty in Iraq m describe 17 male cat is Hare 1 Wii area n Yew. 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