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JOURNAf. III'-RALD DAYT0I1, OHIO D. 111.'.*/ M4R 18 M/6 /P/^^Tv aAhll " I V^/utdoors -By Jim Robey Fish kills net whopping bills Ob the pollution front, the Ohio Division of WIMHfe (ODW) hu billed two induetriet, a village and an individual Id western Ohio for fish kills. And research at Lake Superior has disclosed shocking information about the contamination of lake trout in what many of us have regarded u our most "beautiful and cleanest" Croat Lake. The ODW billed Occidental Chemical Co. of New Bremen 117,342.90 for 112,966 wild anlmale, mostly fish, killed when nitrogen fertilizer entered Kopp Creek In Auglaize County. The discharge occurred June 23 of last year, according to the division. Also billed In the past two months in separate pollution cases are the Village of Union, Hobart Broth ers, Co. of Troy and William Moyer of Troy. The ODW accused the Village of Union City for the death at 96,967 fish la Greenville Creek becauee of eewage discharged la 1967 from the village treatment plant. The division expects to collect 61,489 for the fish kBL From Hobart, charged with the death of 2,043 fish In the Miami River in November of 1974, the ODW is seeking 6404.30. And Moyer, of Troy, hu a bill for $371.10 to reim burse the state for the death of 591 fish which the division says was killed after silo liquor entered Loot Creek In Miami County on Sept. 17, 1974. At Lake Superior a study by the Great Lakee Envi ronmental Contaminants Survey (GLECS) hee found chat lake trout contain toxic materials which exceed th* minimum U3. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines for safe consumption. The toxic substances named Include mercury, DDT and PCBs. One of the fish tested, a 31-lnch lake trout taken from the Marquette-Munfeing area, con tained a concentration of 26.02 ppm of DDT. Five ppm is suppose to be the FDA's allowable limit of the Insec ticide DDT. Sources of the pollution were not determined In the research, but suspected are industries, municipal wastewater treatment plants and atmospheric fallout. A warning has been Issued to residents around Lake Superior that they shouldn't use lake trout as a major source of food end that consumption of the fish, for a resident or tourist, should not exceed more then one meal per week. In another note on pollution, e victory for clean waters has been won by Little Miami, Inc. (LMI) la a landmark case. When the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) approved construction of a small package treatment plent in the flood plain of the Little Miami at Terrace Park near Cincinnati, LMI lodged a protest with ths Ohio Environmental Board of Review (EBR). After hearing the case, the EBR overruled the OEPA and rejected the request of BBS Co., the devel oper, which had planned construction of the package treatment plant along the scenic river. HONS 0*7171