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FILE NAME: New York State & NY Times (NY) DATE: 1974 Mar 25 DOC#: NY060 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: NYT Article - Minnesota Communities Asked to Filter Water Minnesota Communities Asked to Filter W ater Special to The New Y ork Tunes New York Tones (1857-Currentfile); Mar 25,1974, ProQucst Historical Newspapers The N ew Y ork Times (1851 -2002) pg.68 Minnesota Communities Asked to Filter Water, sptritl toTh< Njij York Timet DULUTH, Minn., March 24-- eral Government and nine other A Federal judge has urged this plaintiffs have contended that city and other Minnesota com Reserve's .discharge was the munities on Lake Superior to saonudrcethaot' tthhee atsinbyestomsatfeirbiearlss install filtration facilities capa were carried by Imre currents ble of removing injurious! as to Duluth'and other communi bestos fibers from their drink ties along the western arm of ing water. If the facilities are 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-in 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 18-year-old 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 use 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 t* ficials told th judge filtration conite wastes daily into Lake facilities could be installed on Superior from its processing a short-term 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 Duiuth. 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. said 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. . Reproduced with perm ission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission