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,n tcwovna Twes. TOtswf. <3ao"* ' w* B3 ,*u^ fumes in sewer sr iipf - , .ByXJJEftK&saacn trtnwi THIU lH Wval Vinyl chloride haa been found h a licwcr tow leading from the B. T. Good- ich Co. plam oa Sell* Lane to the Ohio : f liver. - fc The chemical vst discovered alter m bo mere working on the lar? sewer tine lomplained of fumes that horsed tbcir ;je* tod nauseated them. >f P. B". Lawrence, plant manager'*! r Soodrich. said the company has analjwd [he fumes lfld has found "low concentra tions'" of vinyl chloride awl other chtxn- icals called aciylatosBe aaid tbe vinyl chloride ccwld come jnly Inn the Goodrich pint, hut the aciylates could come from any one of I?. seven! different vicinity. plastics plants faa the it rVinyl chloride is a substance used in making some plastics. It has been blamed for causing a rare form of liver cancer, angiosarcoma, vhvrfs has killed at least six former verier* tt tbe B. T. Goodrich plant here, AcryUses are chem icals used or produced ture of several plasties. in the manufac It- Jack Wilburn, executive director of the i. i*- Metropolitan Sewer District {K$D)t told the district's 'hoard of Use problem with tbs fumes yesterday. % W*rk on Urge sewer fa delayed He said the fames had delayed work oa ; f the Southwestern Outfall sewer, a large j j storm-sewer line that leads directly to the : i: Ohio River. !? Tbe sewer line, about 27 feet high and j? 18 feet wide, lies about 55 feet below is ground. Originally, it carried raw sewsee 11 from the serntbwestern part of LooiavtUe a diredly into the Ohio River. ' i. Several years ago, the USD installed a pumping station on tbe sewer line near Bells Lane and 41st Street. Wilburn said this station normally pumps all of tbe MSD sewage out of the line and to tbe Morris Forman Sewage Treatment Plant on Belb Lane.JIbe.only time water get* by the pempis* sUM*,. and into the river, be said, is wftea a heavy ndn dumps more water ictOJibe sewers than the pumps can handle. Wilburn said lha B. F. Goodrich. Co. i has a seww line leading into Uw South- j* western Outfall sewer below the psiapiog u station. The water from tbe Goodrich If sewer flows through the USD line *d if directly into the Ohio Hirer, be said. ` The > U.S. fiUTinmnseolal Protection Agency (EPA) is requiring the USD to install large floodgates in tbe South ,;.f western Outfall line just, downstream from the pumping station to keep Ohio River floodwaters from backing op into tie pumping station. Workmen discovered the. fumes, Wil .?5 burn said, when they broke through' the . -Ji? top of the sewer liajt^pc^ JpMSDlng Thomas J. McBride, an MSO engineer, said tie sewer line normally is dosed to .'3 the air. The outlet, be said, ia below the -.re level of tbe Ohio Rim. He said there - "-S were no complaints of the fumes until tbe i' workmen broke into the line. . .. $ .. Fuses flow threat* pip* Evtm though the B. F. Goodrich aewe*. pipe ie^dewtrerin'' fromAbe^t* ofdbo .er |Me* Wflbuiia arid;: t&e. femes -flow back through the BSD pipe. He said the 55-foot abaft tbe workmen dug to get to the line acta as a chimney and draws the fames upward. Wilburn said the fames are not coo- M*M, -but seem to fill the inter line at least ooc* a day. 'He aaid tbe workmen could see them coming u a "dowdy white mist.** The Munich Engineering Co, of Jeffer sonville. which is doing the work oa tbe sewer lice, has asked the MSD for per-i mission to delay the scheduled compJetwu j of the work. .-< Bn -addition to tbe problem with the ! fumes, Wilburn said. Use company is haw-1 toff hard time getting tbe floodgates from tbe manufacturer. Tbe original deadline for eomplctieg ? tbe work was February 1975. Modich Eo- groeeriug has asked the MSD to postpone tbo deadline to June 1975. The MSD board decided yesterday to investigate further before granting the delay. -rii < Distribution: A. Vittone R. D. Scott J. L. Nelson H. Waltemate B. M. G. Zwicker G- Pow W. J. Wilcox & P. J. Weaver R. B. Downey E. B. Osborne V.K-. Greene W. Harrington _ aey - A-j L. Halfltilil > .: V^ v- - if; *s-gSEs- - -fr V -*V*f T5 - * 3* .h*- i--jr-.-. 1 J&l ~ F ^ -r'"- >0 kb OV . -Vr/-- '' S-.y'-- r'&~ - * ^ ^. C. R,. Flynn