ML20084D764

Newspaper Articles Re Fishkills at Facility

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

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"From one sallor to an- The State Department said Rogers other/' wrote the American to bassador contacted Soviet Am.

Anatoly P. Dobrynin!

ill h C Albany, March 9 (SPe ial) 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 to assist in any way we can." U.S. embassy in Moscow and state biologist and an an i The American, Adm. Elmo state attorney genera R. Zumwalt Jr., chief of Naval relayed ment. to the Russian governi, today that Consolidated Edi.gon.a genera ng i i ticagsajgn

• Russian ecunterpart, Adm. of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkny, n r of fish, running into the the U.S. Navy's help in aiding millions 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-E2 int in light of the conttnuing gon. M-N Gets $600,000 I Princeton kills at plant No 1. nd Zumwalt's offer, and one oth p " made separately by Secretary ammu te ne xw rara nu.

,a ing w rom of State William P. Rogers, PRINCETON, N. J., March 9l the liudson River. Plant No. 1 were refused politely by the -The National Science Founda-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. 000 to Princeton University's ing testing preparatory to start-rescue armada of ten war. Low Energy Nuclear Physics ships, tugs and supply vessels up. w.f M4 4Tsa 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. had provided Commission 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 ma"FInT~~which surfaced Feb. $m000.

25 in a severe Atlantic storm.

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

,its nuclear nnwer clant.

\ A few members of1Ee sub's

'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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l 75eolo81sts Praise Order su

m-l 7Ialting Indian Pt. Tests '

~ pumps that will supply con. " Con FEfflctals nave aim MIMnse~ trom the Atome Ener. denser cooling water "tn order stated that " plume" of steam

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I ByJOYCE DEECENMAN f . , gv Commission tmrore a tar to ghtain data to' help mini i that rises sescral hundred feet be put un tne hae. Public hear- m% fish problems when the fmm the towers would be a

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

questionable quality on a 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 son d ep b W W ear-pump and am recW @' 'W un "because sane of the equip. was 6ut hwn Sunday ing certam patts of th ida n Co to til April. 'There s a

/ halt testing pump 6 and intake i Con Ed spokesmen have < ment used uith the pumps ~

a serm'"m at its second nucle. . consistently sti.ted they hope ! malfunctioned during the test. that there mou be seri s

-~ salt fallout pro em w en ,

ar power plant at IndianattoIeant have m Mr-rhe emtplant po',yeroperating

' does not plan 11ng procedures to operate them The company y#((* th h e Peint, and they indicated they unti,1, after the Manh 9 hear-this summer's expected eng-M!1l launch a renewed effort tn 3r aquire the utility to build pow er crunch, but the state ROBERT BOYLE of Croton.

cooung towers at the plant. Public Serv e Commission WINTER IA the season in on. Hudson, a spokesman for The order, issued Tuesday has indicated tt thinks tde utd- which Con Ed has had the the URFA. renewed the cool.

by Commissioner Henry Dia 1 ity has been unrealistic about most fish-kill problemsinit in tower when con 1campaign he said today his gmup" calls mond "- , of ,the Environmentaly including the plant inits pro- nectinn witir its first nuclear jections for t! e summer's pow. plant at Indian Point. a upon Con Edison to begin a Conse vatim Department, eit- cr supply, 2fA000 kilowatt facility in op- serious engineering study of ed what Diamond called ,,stz'> Asked so dsy if Diamond's eration for almost a decade. It closed circuit cooling devices 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, ending the fish kinsthat the at Indian u Asserting that more than at least partially in operation Point, .

100,000 fish had been killed at this summer, a Con Edsystem choseatto test this time. the circulation He said HRPA members the pla.ct's intake system since- spokesman said the utility "is who viewed cooling towers in Becau.* of the ses cral mil-Jsst Wednesday l Diarnond. at this pnint awaiting the re- lion fish klued atIndian Point other states found them "not

,tenid: "It is clear that the con # sults of the hearing on March . No. 1, during the past 10 ugly, but possessing a Brancu.

tinued operatit.n of the cocling 9 We don't krow what the years, the Hudson River Msh- ni hke beauty." but he notal water intake system as now state will do at that time." his group is no_t wed to cooling erTnen's Association is one of designed is an immediate ACCORDING TO Diamond, three environmental groups towersyr se.

threat to the fish life of th Hudson, and it must cease- the dead fish - mainly white with intervenor cutTen'. AEC hearings. status in the '

Better fish protection methods perch with r.ome strined bass in its intersention, the must' be found which do not killed and other whenspecies the suction - wei in ethe

, JIRFA consistently has ques. Cont 8d harm the envimament." 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 -- aclosed-cycle

- water 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 high-velocity water needed for regterdig the fish kins.- (lar:te as "cight to ten inches." 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 has cited their multimillion state permits issued for the: deaths because the plant itself ; dollar cost and what the utility has not been in operation.

plant. considers their unesthetic.

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 15 (Indi.an Point.)

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

of engineeru[g to accomplish beis hate had pennission to the same purpose.' he said. monitor the uiter intake sys. '"HE REPORISR DISPU'CH 3/1/72 "All we know is that any orice- tems at Indian Point.

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.

uary --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 PO-3-15 (Indian Point)

Con Operations have Fd,s Indian Point nuclear plant at Buchanan where test pumPtnK

• en ordered halted.

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5 .5 W YM NST 3-1-72 V- NWS AEhICAN 3-1-72

- x 3-&-7.2 D p t- '$///71 said, expectation," the document "the ecmpany asked 4&s~'W4cM-W -~ 3Myq the Husdon River policy G O *

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Committee to conduct a $10 million, five-year study of LCOlOoy D OtudleS 8 tart I l

the effect of Indian Point ,

e 4a7 r=: "2 ment the data carlier col-OnPowerSiteProposals  !

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

• Y $ g [p ' elll 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 prnpowr! for tower nhnt rCmendation to the Pubhc Semce kills to present to Dismond Co n!.o'ala t ed Eduon, de at a hearing scheduled in pruconn by the Baltimnre Ga5 Commission as to whether the sinte its insistence that a Albany next week. and Electric Company. plants should be built.

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 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 @!fersaid. 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 fishery impact study now in 1 fe of the Hudson and must I

• pro,rress was disclo. sed in cease." This was the first ' p site for a 1200-niegawatt F *

, 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 a p plica tion for an gm.;d dian Point has had chronic Ch@ty on the Bush River, site,0! electricity generated in Mary-inc licence for the 873-men. fish-k;:1 prob: ems. oQa* proposed 1%0 megawatti land.

wp no-lear punt ^ 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.)

AEC.  ! PQ-3-1 "In on er to confirm this '!

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l Mechanic is Charged With-Setting Indian Point Blaze . r,gn 3 ,g mm 3,7-72 3_.2 i

5 pedal to The Nag Y3rt T'~n

) WHITE PCAINS, March 6 -

A Consolidated Edison employe Cambridge Nuclear Had "l *

• g ,* *;,i  ? "* % '; 6-Month Deficit; Bank power plant was arraigned in County Court here this morn; ing on chare,es of setting a fire! Callsin $1 Million Loan 3- 7' N 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 old father cf three, pleaded not Corp. reported a net loss for the six months 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.

convicted, he faces a maximum! Cambridge Nuclear said it "is considering penalty of 25 years in jail.{ various alternatives" to meet financial obliga.

Mr. Rickey was released oni tions and to provide for continued operation.

The company, which produces supp!fes for_the his the own start recognizance of his tt!11 pending),

nucim rower industrv, said "substantially all next month.

• of the assets of the company and its subsidiar-The Westchester County Dis. ics are mortgaged or pledged as security for 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 Investigallon. year ago, the company reported six. month net On Jan. 29, the day of his income of $65.000, or eight cents a share, on l 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 liospital in nearby Montrose.j business.

where he remained as a patient until today. Neither the nature of the tr'eatment he received;f O

there nor the connection be ;

tween his arrest and hospitali hf [ g g [f p )

admission is known.

A spokesman for Con-l g,p f gp 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 been authorized to spend "up f ()'M ,

to $5-billion" on repairs, which ae ow substantially com t 3, yg

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