ML20084D764

Newspaper Articles Re Fishkills at Facility

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Issue date:	03/10/1972
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dias?1 i3T.: W5: 3/10/72 fU Soviet Sub 0ffered Aid pa n ConfirmFish e =-

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other/' wrote the American to bassador Anatoly P. Dobrynin!

the Russian,"I would like you on Feb. 29 to offer help. Zum-to know that we are prepared walt's offer was cabled to the Albany, March 9 (SPe ial) to assist in any way we can."

U.S. embassy in Moscow and relayed to the Russian governi, state biologist and an an i The American, Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., chief of Naval state attorney genera ment.

today that Consolidated Edi.gon.a genera ng i i tica ajgn Russian ecunterpart, Adm. of gs the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkny, r of fish, running into the the U.S. Navy's help in aiding nmillions since 1963, a stricken Soviet missile sub-The biologist. Anthony J. Bon-avist of the Department Eaviron-marine adrift in the North At-mental Conservation, said Con Ed lantic.

might have expected last toonth a Details of the offer were dis-N E.J YC PS'

'IW"S ;'/10/72 fish kill at p_ tant No. 2 at indian closed yesterday by the Penta-M-N E2 int in light of the conttnuing gon.

Princeton Gets $600,000 I kills at plant No 1.

nd Zumwalt's offer, and one ammu te ne xw rara nu.

oth p made separately by Secretary PRINCETON, N. J., March 9l

,a ing w rom River. Plant No. 1 of State William P. Rogers, were refused politely by the

-The National Science Founda-the liudson has been operating s i n c e 1963 Russians as they assembled a!

tion has awarded almost 5600,-

while the newer No. 2 is undergo.

' rescue armada of ten war.

000 to Princeton University's ing testing preparatory to start-up.

w.f M4 4Tsa ships, tugs and supply vessels Low Energy Nuclear Physics on the high seas about 850 Project to contmue investiga-tion of the structure of atomic

. miles northeast of Newfound.

nuclei. The Atomic Energy land.

Commission had provided Thtt J uelans have been

$600,000 to $700,000 for each trying witTAT' sum iu-~re-of the years between 1968 and store power loj.tuui[tgReg 1970 but last year gave only

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ma"FInT~~which surfaced Feb.

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25 in a severe Atlantic storm.

U_S. off!rint* say it apparently expelrjenced a brenWnwn~ in

,its nuclear nnwer clant.

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'90 man crew have been taken off by helicopters in recent days, the Pentagon said. Add!-

tional Soviet sh!ps were headed for the area, includlng the hel-Jeopter carrier I.eningrad

,from the Mediterranean.

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MAR 1 1972 l 75eolo81sts Praise Order su m-l 7Ialting Indian Pt. Tests that will supply con. " Con FEfflctals nave aim

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~ pumps MIMnse~ trom the Atome Ener. denser cooling water "tn order stated that " plume" of steam f., gv Commission tmrore a tar ghtain data to' help mini i that rises sescral hundred feet I

be put un tne hae. Public hear-m% fish problems when the fmm the towers would be a ByJOYCE DEECENMAN to questionable quality on a HXN Staff Writer

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ings by an AEC licensin, Ettvimnmen:alis+s si!nng the board have been held sporadi! plant is running."

water body such as the Hud-

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. River today hailed the cally sisce December 19'f0 He said ahe ' last of the W

son d ep b W pump was 6ut hwn Sunday ing certam patts of th ear-and am recW @' 'W un ida n Co to til April.

"because sane of the equip.

'There s a Con Ed spokesmen have < ment used uith the pumps

/ halt testing pump 6 and intake i serm'"m at its second nucle.. consistently sti.ted they hope ! malfunctioned during the test.

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power plant at Indian to have -rhe plant operating 11ng procedures The company salt fallout pro em w en

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at Ieant m Mr emt po',yer ' does not plan to operate them this summer's expected unti,1, after the Manh 9 hear-y#((* th ar Peint, and they indicated they h e M!1l launch a renewed effort tn 3r eng-aquire the utility to build pow er crunch, but the state ROBERT BOYLE of Croton.

WINTER IA the season in on. Hudson, a spokesman for cooung towers at the plant.

Public Serv e Commission which Con Ed has had the the URFA. renewed the cool.

The order, issued Tuesday has indicated tt thinks tde utd-by Commissioner Henry Dia 1 ity has been unrealistic about most fish-kill problems in con 1 init tower campaign today of,the Environmentaly including the plant inits pro-nectinn witir its first nuclear when he said his gmup" calls upon Con Edison to begin a jections for t! e summer's pow.

mond plant at Indian Point. a engineering study of Conse vatim Department, eit-cr supply, 2fA000 kilowatt facility in op-serious s dsy if Diamond's eration for almost a decade. It closed circuit cooling devices ed what Diamond called,,stz'>

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stantial fish kius whi h action dampens Con Ed's opti.

la for this reason, said the Con which are the only solution to occurred in the last wcc~,have - mism about having tne plant Ed spokesiman, that the u ending the fish kins at Indian Asserting that more than at least partially in operation 100,000 fish had been killed at this summer, a Con Ed chose to test the circulation

Point, He said HRPA members the pla.ct's intake system since-spokesman said the utility "is system at this time.

who viewed cooling towers in Becau.* of the ses cral mil-Jsst Wednesday l Diarnond. at this pnint awaiting the re-other states found them "not

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sults of the hearing on March. lion fish klued atIndian Point ugly, but possessing a Brancu.

tinued operatit.n of the cocling 9 We don't krow what the No.

1, during the past 10 ni hke beauty." but he notal water intake system as now state will do at that time."

years, the Hudson River Msh-his group is no_t wed to cooling erTnen's Association is one of designed is an immediate threat to the fish life of th ACCORDING TO Diamond, three environmental groups towersyr se.

Hudson, and it must cease-the dead fish - mainly white with intervenor status in the '

Better fish protection methods perch with r.ome strined bass cutTen'. AEC hearings.

must' be found which do not and other species - wei e,

in its intersention, the Cont 8d harm the envimament."

killed when the suction in the JIRFA consistently has ques.

pumping system puned them tioned Onn F#s provistons for THE CC!CUSSIONER nald against the protec*ise temen-fish pmtection, indicating it a hearing will be held in Alba-ing system and impaled them fewrs -- closed-cycle water a -

ny on March 9 to determine on the screens. He sato most -moling system that would not what additional action,if any.. of the fisti were about two require the vast quantities of the sdepartment shm11d take taches long, but some were as regterdig the fish kins.- (lar:te as "cight to ten inches."

high-velocity water needed for the current once through cool-

.Among the courses oper.toit ~ Both he and the Con Ed ing system.

are the levying of civilpenal- ? spokesman saH the eletnent et Con Ed has satd it will build ties as well as the revocation, thermal (heated water) pollu, the torers if requhed to, but it -

modificatMn or suspension of,!jen did not enter into the cited their multimillion has state permits issued for the deaths because the plant itself ; dollar cost and what the utility

has not been in operation.

considers their unesthetic.

plant.

Indian Point No.1 a 873,(00

.The' Con Ed spokesman saida (cooling. towers at kilowatt faciHty on the Hudson the utinty cad been testing In.} quantiesother power plants am as tali just south of Peekskillis corn. dian Potut No. 2's circa.lation~ aA nearly 500 feet and as wide plated (hut needs e.n,operattag as 400 feet at their base

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"There may he other uavs Bovie and other HRFA mem.

of engineeru[g to accomplish beis hate had pennission to

'"HE REPORISR DISPU'CH 3/1/72 the same purpose.' he said. monitor the uiter intake sys.

tems at Indian Point.

"All we know is that any orice-thmugh conting system that THE CON ED spokesman requires one rmllion gallons of asserted the utility long has water a minute -like the one been taying to solve the fish at Indian Point No. 2 - has problem at Indian Point and too great a ve'ocity for juve-he notnf it has established a nile fish that can't resist that fish advisory boarti and mr.de kind of pull of water-espe-a standing offer to build and cially in the winter when their operate a fish hatchery, metabolism is slower and they'.

"The board." he said. "is re more dormant."

composed of highly reputable Boyle said his group would scientists who are advising participate in the March 9 Con Ed on the methods to min.

hearing "if it will serve some imize the plant's effect on fish.

useful purpose." At the hear.

Under the hatchety proposal, ing, Cor. Ed has been ordered the company would replace to produce ltr. reenrd of fish any fish that might be de-kills dortng February and.lan.

stroyed as a result of operat.

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--a period dunng which ing tDe plant."

in addition to being the sub-ject of Diamon's March 9 heanng, the fish problem also will come under close senttiny when the AEC resumes its hearin:: on an operating IJ-rense for the plant because, as prestously scheduled, the bal.

ance of the hearing is to con.

sider "non radiologicaleffects on the environment."

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MBERE FISit DIED Operations have en ordered halted.

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r=: "2 OnPowerSiteProposals 4a7 ment the data carlier col-lected."

ANNAPOLIS - ( A P) - struction and operation would A spokesman for con Ed Natural Resources Secretary have on the environment.

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Y lg said tho. company was now James B. Coulter said Monday Results of the studies udl tw m the process of collecting that detailed environmental:used by the Department c'

data ucerning recent fish smdies have begun on two sites l Natural Resources in its mccm-Ih NTEVI: I, WHl:NCE kills to present to Dismond prnpowr! for tower nhnt rCmendation to the Pubhc Semce Co n!.o'ala t ed Eduon, de at a hearing scheduled in pruconn by the Baltimnre Ga5 Commission as to whether the and Electric Company.

plants should be built.

sinte its insistence that a Albany next week.

W ru+v r Ace nhnt The contract to conduct the Under study will be such at f roib o Po

• w di not dis. Pumps Closed Sunday stw!fes was awarded to the Ap-items as watcr avadability and

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rupt liudson R;ter ecology, In ordering Indian Point 2 l p@d Physics Laboratory of the quality, water currents, air cur-En quietly begun a $10 testing stopped, Diamond,

Johns Hopkins University, rents, air quality and disper-nullion, five-yea r study of said, "It is cIcar that the

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sion, the pla nt's impact on fish continued operation of the 7M two sites are Brandon Fundmg has been approved in the waterway.

cooIIng water intake system S!3res,375 acres in Anne Arun-until July 1,1972, and totals as now designed is an im* l M County near the mouth of $366'000' The multi-rnillion dcRar mediate threat to the fish.

Mtimo e Harbor, proposed as I

fishery impact study now in 1 fe of the Hudson and must p site for a 1200-niegawatt F

• pro,rress was disclo. sed in cease." This was the first '

pdnf using oil fuel, with closed papers fded last week with reported fish kill at the sec.

gpin'g towers and sought to All funds are raised by the the Atnriic Fmy Commis-ond nuclear plant unit. A Woperational by 1977; and;one-tenth of a md surrhtrge sinn as part of Con Ed's waaller atomic plant at In-1Mryman,703 acres in liarfordlapphed on every kilowatt hour gm.;d dian Point has had chronic Ch@ty on the Bush River, site,0! electricity generated in Mary-a p plica tion for an l

fish-k;:1 prob: ems.

oQa* proposed 1%0 megawatti and.

inc licence for the 873-men.

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Con Edison saki it had riglear plant with closed cycle l The disclosure came Just been testing the cooling sys.

Cooiing towers anticipated to be days before the State's chief tem at the plant "to obtain 0$ rational by 1979.

environment officer. Henry data to help minimize fish e field stu6es are to deter ;

Diamond, ordered the utility l problems " Bu; pumps at the rp e what effects the plant con I 1

to stop testing at Indian unit were shut down last Point 2 because, he said, hSunday *because some of "more than 100 thousand ' the equipment used with the,

fish" have been killed there pumps malfunctioned." This in less than a week.

, was two days before Dia-The new Con Ed study, ! mond's crder was issued, ac-combined with the fish kills i cording to the utility.

report 3.i by JAan.ond com-rmssion?r of the State Dept. '

M Envimnmental Conserva-tion, tended accord;ng to one '

<."imnment group to thmw some doubt on Con Ed's con-sistent assurances that its Indian Point 2 unit would be ecologically sound.

"Our best judgement is that we can expect that the operation of _ Indian Point No. 2 will have no adverse effect on the Hudson River fishery," said the cost-bene-l fit study submitted to the PO-3=l(Indian Point.)

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WHITE PCAINS, March 6 -

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6-Month Deficit; Bank power plant was arraigned in County Court here this morn; Callsin $1 Million Loan ing on char,es of setting a fire!

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that caused millions of dollars!

sy a Thsrazer Joi:nwAL stap arporter of damage last November.

I Arthur Rickey Jr., a 27-year-:

E!ILERICA,11 ass. -- Cambridge Nuclear Corp. reported a net loss for the six months old father cf three, pleaded not ended Dec. 31 and said a creditor, 311ddlesex guilty to charges of arson and; Bank, Everett, 3 tass., has declartd the com-criminal mischief in the second, pany in default and has called in a $1 million

, degree. lie had been indicted l loan made last Oct.14.

'by a grand jury last week. II.

Cambridge Nuclear said it "is considering convicted, he faces a maximum!

penalty of 25 years in jail.{

various alternatives" to meet financial obliga.

tions and to provide for continued operation.

Mr. Rickey was released oni The company, which produces supp!fes for_the his own recognizance pending),

nucim rower industrv, said "substantially all the start of his tt!11 of the assets of the company and its subsidiar-next month.

ics are mortgaged or pledged as security for The Westchester County Dis.

the loan."

trict Attorney's of{ ice h.is de-A spokesman said an announcement is ex-clined to discuss a possible motive or the circumstances of; perted "probably before the end of the week."i Mr Rickey's arrest, which fol.

For the six months, the company reported a l

! owed an intensive three-month,1 net loss of $464.000 on sales of $2.2 million. A l year ago, the company reported six. month net Investigallon.

income of $65.000, or eight cents a share, on l On Jan. 29, the day of his arrest, Mr. Rickey voluntanlyi sales of $3.7 million. A company spokesman.

committed himself to thei said the year-earlier figures probably wl!! be LFranklin D. Roosevelt Veteransl restated to reflect changes in the company's business.

liospital in nearby Montrose.j where he remained as a patient of the tr'eatment he received;f until today. Neither the nature hf [ g g [f p )

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O tween his arrest and hospitali admission is known.

Con-l g,p f gp A spokesman for solidated Edison said todaythat Mr. Rickey was a good worker and had been suspended with pay and benefits pendmg the outcome of his case. lie has been with the company for seven years.

The fire caused extensis c damage to electrical equipment in the plants' primary auxi.

liary building. According to a company spokesman, the West-inghouse Electric Corporation,:

prime contractor for the 873,-

000-kilowatt power plant, has f ()'M been authorized to spend "up to $5-billion" on repairs, which ae ow substantially com t 3,

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