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Inquirer 4/21/83^ - traces again in trout of 2 area streams By; Bob Drogiri .'- 7InauirerStatl Wri. ter .' .V..... parts, per million of PCBs in trout fillets from* Valley Creek, and 5.3 , For'the thirdlyear, the state De- parts per million in whole fish from partment of Environmental Re-. Little Valley Creek. The federal Food . sources has found low levels of toxic and Drug Administration advises . polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in . against eating fish containing more brown trout caught in two popular than 5 parts per million PCBs. V . streams ip Chester and Montgomery ; David; Mashek^. DER `Spokesman, Counties. v - - said the trout did not pose adiealth Officials Said the PCB levels found hazard because the trout fiHets in -trout from 3Vh miles of Little Val- showed acceptably low levels. "The ley Greek and the lower four miles of .. actual.stuff you eat is 1.76" parts per ' Valley Creek did "not-pose a health- million; he said: 0 V'-y; - - hazard, however, The DER advised fishermen to fil- The: PCBs were''found' in both , let and skin the fish, before cooking, stocked and native brown trout from because the PCBs tend to accumulate, the' two creeks, officials said. The in. organs and in fatty tissue under Little "VaBey: feeds Valley Creek, ...the skin. y\ yy-T - whidh empties into the Schuylkill at. The, Pennsylvania Fish .Commis- Valley Forge. ' ' * _ * sion,stocks Valley Creek with brown , "ftk.a real shame, because these, trout each year. The highest are two of the last remaining natural ' levels, of PCBs were found , in older trout streams in southeast Pennsyl- trout, because it takes several weeks vania," said Don Knorr, a DER aquat- to several months forthe chemical 10 ic biologist in Norristown. , , build up in the.recently stocked fish. Knorr, sait} the PC?S had been .; PCBs have been linked tcf cancer, .traced lo- 3 -SEPTA, railroad repair birth defects and liver disease in yard hear'Little Valley Creek in Pao- laboratory animals. Congress has li. The DER has been negotiating banned production of the chemical with the railroads to cleari .the PCB since 1978, but the chemical , is still oil from' the' yard. ' " " * /' widely used as an electrical insu] ant. The DER said that tests showed 1.76 in transformers and capacitators. , PCB-ARCH-EXT0378485