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San Francisco, CA (San Francisco Co.) Chronicle ...... (0. 537,621) 1C SEP 2,2 W Jllleni P.$JB A', Esr. .1888,. t !{.'4 . .. a-. , ..............^,... ,v , ,.. . Shows 100 PCB '> sV>"*jifel'B ` Leaks Iptil^^.......... it'bi'th^ti^'V-i'Right now we have about 50 ^Service EF.mmpnllooyvees International vl locations that have minor leaks. A lCWdow^townldcations where elec- have beehTieduc i to fe>yer than . ieVsi, i`that as of yesterday, .tricattfansformers haVeleaked the since; data'?fdrme'leaked- renorf%lttt'aviWnnu`WaH identified five loca- . J; highly tOxiccheihicbl,[f;; A,; #;>. . ,.v, . .... .. H . ... w.lt____ ,____ JB leaks have formed i'Feiristigin asked ^Phir Day, Emergency,Services 'director, to firmed that; the steport released hj^a fuddle-iHi^add^ that there are the community group was an interjSs> f-v '-PC-- MBled 'transf*ormers in. San nal PG&Ememo| look intdl&eports of;the^leaking i transformers. Late yesterday .aftep * p aoslfsa: US ^rioon, Da/*called the leaks minor \ Protecti6h;`;'Xjency. regulations r^;^ * and said the reports have been ov- 'quire fthhee^jiuuttiilliittyy^f-ttoo;iinnssppect|,PPCCBB|;-;''y^,^apurE<.:ssaaiida'mmoossti ooif tihe trans- yerplayed. ; filled transformers four times ;a|S'i;frmers in San Francisco.are in the : - year and recordItheir findings. Hd^dowritown'area east of 'Van Ness : ; `.`The leaks ,are not a hazard or . called the inspections and repdrts B Aveennuuee--V^aannddtthhaattoonneeooff the leaky danger to anybody's health," be "routine" *.,' .a w,h ;> said. 1 ; every San Rafael, CA . (Marin Co.) Independent-Journal (Cir. 6xW. 45,355) sepJJs men'i p. C. B Est. lSSS ' J -^y;. I : * . /T\ P*^ Power & "gram, scheduled (o start next year, [million for; the t\yo replacement [ Light Co. plans fo spernfmore- than [comes after dramatic fires in Bingh fprograms to replace capacitors and; [$15 million over five years to re- amton, N.Y., and San Francisco that transformers;; but the cost is only a [place hundreds of South Florida spread PCBs through large office I sniaU fraction Of the utility's budget. Iff {transformers containing toxtcTCBsy [ the company announced. '..* 1,1 buildings. `* .vAThe New York L:*;5-,V'SfS;[ Sliding had to.be, ; arid will be spread over five.years. ; ; "We don't agree that PCBs are a [ abandoned, and the San Francisco Most of theiargeirarisformers , big problem," company spokesman ;"fire resulted, in lawsmTT^eelHnE .; containing PCBs are iri the base- ` Stacey Shaw said Monday. "But . millions of dollars in damages. - vi irients or urider the sidewalks of i there's a lot of public, concern. FP&L will replace 419 huge PCBt J South Florida's [tail buildings. The [Sometimes it's better to go ahead bearing transformers in Dade Coun company has [less than 10 in North and get rid of the problem rather rthan fight public understanding." t PCBs, or polychlorinated biphen- ty, 19 in Broward and about 20 in ^Florida. [V, - - w- \ V. ;! Palm Beach County, Shaw said. ff^;[[ Capacitors contain an average of 1 I yls, are a group of 219 toxic chemi- , Under federal rules issued last ; cals that concentrate in fat tissue, year, the Miami-based utility al ; and are linked to a variety of health ready is spending $16 million to gallon of PCB-laden oil, while trans formers can contain up to 600 gal lons. ;;V::v.[y."v : problems, including cancer and replace thousands of PCB-bearing ; birth defects. - , [capacitors throughout the state. PCBs once were widely used in electrical equipment because thejr ; The transformer-replacement pfo- Customers will pay the total $31 retard fires PCB-ARCH-EXT0376170