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MkRPC dfccusses Lake Pepin, federal projects Lake Pepin is dying, and little Ib being don* to uvo it. This was th central concern of the July Executive Committee meeting both the dosing of the fishery and the Increasingly noxious conditions brought about by the Lake's pollution. of the MieeiHippl River Re gional Planning Comml*eion (MRRPC). In response to requests by Mrs. Hill's organisation and by Commissioners from the River Recently, the Lake wu cloeed counties. Commission Chairman to commercial fishing by the John Thomas will appoint an U.S. Food and Drug Adminis action group on Commissioners tration because of high levels of and citiiena to look into the the industrial additive polych situation. Hie group will seek a lorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, coordinated response from Wis JounTnirnSR samples. This addi consin's Congressional delega tive, according to Norman Kir- tion. Governor Lucey, and all the schbaum of the Wiscnsin De state and federal agendas in partment of Agriculture, who volved. met with the Committee, is The Great River Environmen known to cause skin problems, tal Action Team has a similar birth defects, and even death. goal, and it pledged to wort The level in the tainted fish closely with the Commission in from Lake Pepin was in excess this and other river-related mat of federal and state health ters. limits, Klrschbeum admitted In other action at the July that not enough is presently meeting, the Commissioners en known about PCBs either to be dorsed five proposed federal sure that the limit of five parts spending projects In the Region, per million is sufficient to ensure including: public health, or to hold that It is A 10-acre village perk in Ells unrealistically restrictive. worth. The initial phase will be. PCBs are used in a wide range a six-acre picnic and softball of manufactured products, all area, coating 916.000. of which the way from automotive lubri the village will pey half. Jim cants to agricultural fertiliser containers. When released to pie environment, they act somewhat like DDT: in feet, until recently, laboratory testa did not distin guish the two. They both remain Peterson, Pierce County 1 Resource Agent, said that tbs ! i park's master plan will also be f ft j -reviewed by a professional perk designer. 1( A 9733.000 public sewer and'] t in the food cycle for year* water system in the Village of j without degrading to safe levels. Warrens. Monroe County Re'< * However, Kirachbaum notsd. source Agent Leonard Anderson * > PCBs are much more wide explained that the VUIege, al-.| < j jf.spread than DDT, apptaring in though just recently incorporate; municipal and industrial ad, has been seeking such e I ' sewaga, in the air, in water system since 1944. Some Com supplies, and in food products. missioners, while supporting the Since the dangers of PCBs concept of water pollution first became evident, the sole abatement throughout the U S. supplier has restricted its sates. but it ha* not halted production. This supplier has not chosen to release the names of PCB purchasers, so the search for the source of the Lake Pepin contamination is made that Region, expressed concern I about the flnsnelsi burWa uoh. an expensive project win piece > on the 280 residents of Warrens. A fifty-unit. 9900.009 apart ment building for Vlroqua's ' elderly. Commissioner Chester much more difficult. Mrs. Ed Hill, of Pepin, mein- taina that tbs only logical source is the Twin Cities area. Repre sentsting tha Cititens for the Preservation of Lake Pepin, Mrs. Kill told the Commission- Erlendeon, Vernon County Board Chairman, noted that a recant survey showed real need for such Construction wtU be through a loan from the Farmer's Homs Administration. are of the advene local effects of i SPARTA, WIS.. HERALD I. 4.782 JUL14 1975 Clearing of tha Ktckapoo River In Crawford County. Sub ject to a feasibility study by the Corps of Engineers, this project will remove Mags and debris to reduce flood damage and inc rease recreation potential. The proposal received written sup port from Bob Dlllman. County Board Chairmen end MRRPC Commissioner; Bernard Watson. Village President of Gays Mills, and Noel Daugherty, Village President of Steuben. I The Executive Committee en dorsed the project and at the seme time asked that the Corps reopen its files on tha long gar ment clearing of the lower Chippewa River through Durand. Construction of restrooms along the Elroy-Sparta Bike Trail. Commissioner Adolph Heilman, Monroe County Board Chairman, said that then im provements were much needed additions to the popular trail and were in accord with tha Trail's original master plan. ' The Executive Committee i tabled a proposal to begin a roadside seeding project in ' Monroe County. Commissioners seek assurance that both tha County Board and the GoMm Sends Resource Conservation and Development District have reviewed the project. At the request of Commission ' or Tony Polier of Durand, the August mooting of the Executive MQNS 031071