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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1974 Mar 25 DOC NMA083 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - Minnesota Communities Asked to Filter Water Minnesota Communities Asked to Filter Water Special to New York The New York Tumes Times Currenfit le Mar 25 1974 ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times 1851 - 2002 Pg 68 Minnesota Communities | Asked to Filter Water Special to The New York Times DULUTH Minn March 24 eral Government and nine other A Federal judge has urged this city and other Minnesota com- munities on Lake Superior to install filtration facilities capa ble of bestos injurious removing as fibers from their drink ing water If the facilities are plaintiffs have contended that Reserve's discharge was the source of the asbestos fibers and that the tiny materials were carried by lake currents to Duluth other communi- ties along the western arm of Lake Superior not installed Judge Miles Lord He spoke yesterday in the said the communities face the Federal Courthouse here at a possibility of increased cases public hearing that he had of cancer and other fiber called to alert area residents duced diseases to the problem Judge Lord told 120 Duluth Judge Lord has said that he residents and local officials will order Reserve to halt the here Friday that microscopic discharge and that the only fibers were being discharged question is when he will set into the lake in great numbers a specific deadline for an end by the Reserve Mining Com to the year practice pany and that the only quick However he has said that he means to abate a very sub does not believe that residents stantial public health menace who Lake Superior drinking was to have efficient water water share fully his concern filtration about the apparent health If we can't get water filtra- threat from the fibers His visit tion in here the judge said was intended he said to alert I'm going to close the plant residents and to build a bon- And those people will be out fire under those responsible for of work filtering the water Since late 1955 Reserve has Environmental and health of- discharged 67,000 tons of ta ficials told the judge filtration conite wastes daily into Lake facilities could be installed on Superior from its processing a short basis to remove plant at Silver Bay Minn a from 80 to 90 per cent of the village 50 miles northeast of fibers from municipal water Duluth About half of the min supplies However Francis ing company's 3,100 employes Mayo Middle West regional di- work at the plant making Re rector of the United States En- serve a major factor in the vironmental Protection Agency region's economy Isaid that construction of more For almost eight months permanent and extensive facil- Judge Lord has been presiding ities that could remove more over a District Court trial in than 90 per cent of the fibers Minneapolis in which the Fed would take three years - a nnerena tender eea would ta hnrerere e tran rtharneeeanyeeartrarsemn.omrivaacnsreinimn Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission