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TELLEX TNI MOADCAST REPORTING SERVKI i-cu fuu.unnN at maknw yuAiuiY, glamomuan. fof Prog I \]le MONSANTO C1II>11 CAI-S J.T>. (ilitn) UIIClNi. I./.mo '..-,.7-,lime ii,i ,5 t;. Orsckoti, Khi|. Service (ti,t 'i (iva) Seriol -joholv'it Duration <, ,,,ins I 50 Gtowenor Streer London W1A 2DA. Telephone 01 493 3931 TEILX 27688 MOMS 060302 VI NCiJWl KANi>. Next bi;; utorv tins morninj' i- aliont Mnendy Quarry overlooking Taff Vali' near Pontypridd. Where it is reported Unit the level of pollution is now lethal. According to thr Suniln Times yesterday, mIi i c 11 ran a hefty feature on Maendy, the Department of llie l.nvi mo ment has been looking into forty tips all around llrilain, witch are bndly polluted and it is now f'lunp, to spend one and a half million pounds jus I 1o consider exactly whut the pollution eonaista of. ho don't know' where the forty sites are. We do kiow seven of 'then are in hlaronrpan and the worst oT the lot is Macndy, where a particularly deadly chemical, pnlychlorinatodbiphono 1, has been leaking by increasing quanti ties, down the hillHidr. Indeed, it was n handful of local lull farmers who first drew the attention of the Authorities to tin tip. One authority on this substance, PC!!, Or. 1'lntioov*, wlio h is been to Mnendy, told Welsh Office officials tha the flow of It'M was had enough to cnoae death, uml he said, in turn, he was in cused of having a Doomwatcb mentality. Well, yesterday, Am to Morgan went to faff Vuje to see the i|irirry for herself. Hero in her report. :;tmti'i\: I an standing on the road in between the two sides nf Macmlv ipiarry. To tny right I see ten acres which have been filled in. hut, an im left there ure still five acres of the old stone quarry. And it is here 1 can sec evidence of what is Romp on under the ground. IJccuumo, apart from the usual rlehriH mi see on n dump like this - o! hoots and tyres, newspapers - ( can see stinking brown |WoN of stagnant water atrelrhmp away into Ilia distance and I e ad i lip, so I mil told, onto n nearby farmer's land. t'hc farmer he i op Mr. Hi 11 Maidment, who in bore with me now. !tes that actually affect you, Mr. Maidment'* HI 1,1 Nf: We 11, vck. Ii n f I'er t * t lie whole of my dr i ok i nn o.cl' o 1 wo I < r for the r;j I I } e on I he far side of the fnrni, which i- the hi iv.t part of my farm - '>7 acres. A ,M: Have you noticed any difference in this quarry in the years when they were dumping here? II.M: Well, yes. fheoe |Holn of walei hove g r.nlcn I 1 v pot worse aver (lie ye nrs . Him amo I I . MCNS 060303 I Any morn serious 8 i f*nn llioui'li'1 II.Ml Well, with my animal*, yes. 1 *vn lost a few animal* over ihe years uinl now, it seems, they ;irr talking ahoul stoppinc me selling mv milk. Well, if that i the case, how am 1 f*oimt tr> live? A.Mi What sort of stuff have you h"en told has boon found lheror> 11.11: Cauntlosa thouanmia of burrel* dumjied here, which we did not know what wan in them. They nrc nil down undernonth the f(round now and ae lima koon on, tha*c barrels, no doubt, would <lisiute- rate and thua get into the water aupply. V,K: Well, ) have been apookiup;, (hi* morning, to Mr. Douulo* Uowan in London, who i . lhe i.nate Disposal Consultant who first became involved with Haoudy vhon he wna a Pollution Officer with the Nulivnul farmer* I'm on. ] asked him how danf'croue the ((uarrv wna. It is not, at the moment, dniu'erous to itcmbera of the public. In the sense Unit it is some miles away from urban habitation. It is dnniteroua in feme of animal welfare, and tie- pollution level* are i nc renal n*. liecnnse wo linve ahawn die cmituni nutmn from the <pi*rrv is enrryinf' over an far n* six miles in water, this must Iw a matter of public concern. V.K; The Welsh Office, as late as yesterday, was (nil tine out statement* In the effect that occonl i n/> to their samples thi>re i1- no draper to public hi-allli, or oven to water supplies. n.(i: Veil, I think this ik absolute rnhlnsii, because, (ravine aside "in own opinion, and our own opinion includes on-' al the most eminent lop vetrrinnry psychologists in the world, l*rafssor C.b.i . (Murlc, nl J.omlon tlnivernity, the Department of the environment themselves, through llio Chemical I ns|>ectorain , have said the present |hi| lui iii level- are a matter of concern. SONS 060304 V.K: '..Imt linn attracted o lot of interest over the weekend n tlu tuff, I'dl, pc I ych lor matedIn phenol. D.tr: It'll in not nsualJv lethal in sense. Hint if ymi drank Bomo cyanide yon would probably drop dead. That would not happen to you with ITIl. I'D) has n much more inmdmiiH effect in the sense that it weakens the Iwdilv system. It can bo cynogrostie with other coorii- nonti and it can cause mortality. And this hue been proven in animal*, bird* mid a|i)Btie life and there in no reaanit t< Biipimse that it eannet corse mortality in tmmati beings. V K; It is Just mortality? There is talk about sterility an well* I).tit Yen. Ami I think we have, ourselves, in other cane* some evidence to mtp|H>rl tlna. V.K: Can the danger be pOHscd on in (ho fnol cycle'* D.tii Yob, it ran and, in fact, the compound becomos moro toxic a* it puaaos on in the fund chain. V.K: llow exactly then are >o>< able (n pin|>oint Uio aonreo of tins ]**J)uti<m, In particnlur ITII as Macndy? I).(i; Well, in terms of direct sampling wo have samples from the nnarn itself right dawn through aver the field* to the voter supply nn-1 c have also boon able to tvpo the l*t!H there as an araclaw* which i- manufnotared by Monsanto Chemical* Limited and wo went buck niv< found Hint it was removed by a tippinr, cmipany to tbit rpmrrv site. V.K: 'toll, 1 know it 19 there ;r i>' mo accept that it i dore'crmis. How an earth are we to get rid of It' There us l-ll. \ "-ter-lay r>l' having ta build steel barricades around i be i.wurv. I ii ux had a- that ` i.(i: '.ell, the iil'fiaitt.V * I th IM-t: i h thn! |1 . ..................... t. ha.!. desist.uit to belli;. Balohlc nr i.il.-r " r < |t when i , - mi >. .1 with solvent which are pieseat in tin <|uarr ... ' i< itum.i !> ireated. It reeisls MCNS 060305 I normal processes of integration. Therefore ono is probably faced with tin* prospect of seulin/; the <junrry ofr ns the only meons of stopping the pollution j'ettinj' out. * limnetic spelling. I HONS 060306