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Cities ~T- Collision course on pdllution MTmlrifmHties face `iqumr hprmisp fedornl mcnrmrr^srt clean water standards, but Congress holds back on funds Savannah, Ga., discharges 10.4-million gal. of raw, untreated sewage daily into ' the Savannah River. Even if the city had the money to build badly needed sewage treatment facilities, 18 months would be needed for construction. By then, an addi tional 8-billion gal. of sewage will have flowed into the stream, possibly causing irreparable environmental damage. Savannah, like every other community with a water pollution problem--and that includes nearly every medium-size and large city in the U. S.--is watching Wash ington closely'. Although the Adminis tration requested only $214-million for sewage treatment facilities for the coming fiscal year, Congress has been listening to voices from home and is prepared to ap propriate at least $600-million and per haps the full $ 1-billion authorized in the 1966 Clean Waters Restoration Act. Whatever the figure, it will be the largest federal appropriation to states for munici pal sewage treatment facilities. The states, in turn, will parcel the money out to local governments. . Mix-up. Even so, no one aware of the I situation expects any marked improve- | ment in sewage treatment soon. Promises of federal funds, now long delayed, have created confusion and made the cities' role in cleaning up waterways harder than before Washington got involved, f Originally the act authorized a fouryear, $3.4-billion program, but the record of Congress on appropriations has been dismal. Of the $1.2-billion authorized through fiscal 1969, only $417-million has filtered down to states and cities. Now the full impact of the jfnnding gap is being felt by financially squeezed cities through court cases and enforcement conferences with the Interior Dept.'s Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. The act required states to establish wa- (ter quality standards for their interstate waters by June 30, 1967, and also specified that state standards with deadlines and plans to implement them be approved by the Interior Secretary. This clause opened the way for federal abatement action against cities that failed to meet state clean-water standards. But the standards, / and especially deadlines and plans to im/ plement them, were based heavily on the | supposition that the funds authorized in I the act would be appropriated. Explains C. Beverly Briley, mayor of Nashville and president of the National League of Cities: "Local improvements must be made, since the act provides for enforcement through the courts. The sad product will be that cities will . . . do so at the expense of improving housing, edu cation, and other critical local needs that draw upon the same resource base." Summary. Earlier this month, the watchdog General Accounting Office noted that of some $5.4-billion worth of sewage treatment facilities built from 1957 through 1969, the federal govern ment supplied only $ 1.2-billion. Also, it said, grant money went to communities on a "first-come, first served" basis. For big cities that had to do business with un sympathetic state legislatures, this has meant fewer dollars for sewage treatment projects. The GAO report observed that most of the grant money had gone to com munities of less than 25,000 population. Whatever money does come down to the local level will be gratefully received. Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel told the Senate Appropriations Committee that his state's water cleanup program will die unless Washington gives states and communities what was promised What local officials say . . . `Before Vietnam, about 30% of our sewage plant expenses would be paid for by federal money. Now it's down to about 5%' Thomas Foerster Commissioner jheny County, Pa. `The government doesn't have enough money to meet the standards that it is setting up italf, anjd the municipalities are lef hot ing the bag' Carmen Guarino Deputy Commissioner Philadelphia Water Dept. `It will take enlargement of our water-treatment facilities to meet state standards. We have enough money to do that now' John E. Egan President, Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago `The municipalities do not have the money, so what are they to do? When [the federal government] cuts back the money, they are delaying the day when pollution will be cleaned up' James J. McMahon Chairman, Passaic Valley [N.J.] Sewerage Commission them. Maryland had anucipo,__ ____ . million in federal grants in fiscal 1968 through 1971, planning municipal treat ment plants and organizing funds accord ingly. "Because our carefully conceived plan is working well, Maryland is in finan cial trouble," Mandel told the committee. "The Sanitary Facilities Fund will go broke early in fiscal 1970 unless federal appropriations are increased." Bait. Many municipalities criticize the federal government for forcing states and communities to meet water-quality stan dards which, they maintain, would not have been adopted without a promise of federal funds. Gripes Carmen Guarino, deputy water commissioner in Phila delphia, "The government doesn't have enough money to meet the standards that it is setting up itself, and the municipal ities are left holding the bag." Carl B. Stokes, mayor of Cleveland, maintains that if the nation is to make the needed attack on water pollution, cities need even more money than the currently promised 30% to 55% of the cost. He wants 90% financing, similar to that pro vided for the Interstate Highway Pro gram. Stokes notes that Cleveland has committed itself to spend almost half the $214-million the federal government has been spending annually on water pollu tion for the whole country. Dead center. Cities such as Columbus, Ga., tell state officials they have little de sire to proceed with plans for sewagetreatment plants until they see the money promised. Warren Griffin, assistant to the executive secretary of the Georgia State Water Quality Control Board, admits, "We can't afford to give all our grant money to one treatment plant, so we give them all a little pittance each year." Observes James J. McMahon, chairman of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commis sion, responsible for water pollution con trol in 22 northern New Jersey municipal ities: "When communities cut back the money, they are delaying the days when pollution will be cleaned up." Though no city admits publicly it is un willing to go along with state water-quali ty standards, many continue unabashedly to dump raw sewage into rivers just as Savannah is doing. Last month, the Il linois Sanitary Water Board requested the state attorney general to file actions against five corporations--including U. S. Steel, Interlake Steel, Republic Steel, Car gill, Inc., and Cosden Oil & Chemical Co.--and the Metropolitan Sanitary Dis trict of Greater Chicago for violation of water quality standards. "It will take en largement of our water-treatment facil ities to meet state standards," says John E. Egan, the district's president. "We have enough money to do that now." Snail's pace. Some states indicate they are happy to get almost any amount the federal government can contribute. But St. Joseph, Mo., a city of 80,000, doubts if any amount of. federal aid coiild get the 44 Cities DSW 552266 isiness Week November 29, 1969 STLCOPCB4090683 X Christmas past is also Christmas present From the house of Justerini & Brooks Founded1149 J&B Rare Scotch It only costs a few cents more. DSW 552267 STLCOPCB4090684 This announcement appears as a matter of record. $30,000,000 CAMERA AND INSTRUMENT o =R F= d> FR --T" I d> r^J Convertible Subordinated Notes due 1989 The undersigned negotiated the direct sale of the above notes. Lehman Brothers Established 1850 NEW YORK CHICAGO DALLAS DENVER HOUSTON PARIS SAN FRANCISCO orientber 13, 1969. November 18,1969 This announcement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of offers to buy any of these securities. The offering is made only by the prospectus filed with the Department of Law of the State of New York and with the Bureau of Securities. Department of Law and Public Safety of the State of New Jersey. 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Viewing the violent city of the future Life in our cities will grow even grimmer if the picture drawn this week bv the Na tional Commission on the Causes & Pre vention of Violence becomes reality. The commission, headed by Milton Eis enhower, was set up by former President Lyndon B. Johnson after the murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in June, 1968. Its detailed report on the increase in vio lent crime in the cities sketches the future city that present trends make likely. The picture is not that unfamiliar. Safety will be of varying degrees. Cen tral business districts, surrounded by decaying neighborhoods, will be largely deserted at night except for police patrols. Armed guards will protect public build ings. Ghettoes will be "places of terror" where police may be unable to keep order at night. Well-to-do city residents willlive in high-rise apartments protected bv guards and security devices. Suburbanites, though insulated by distance from crimeridden city slums, will routinely own weapons and home-protection gadgets. The citv and suburbs will be linked by "sanitized corridors"--expressways over which lightly armored autos will rush the affluent to and fro. Hostility between rich and poor and black and white, will in tensify. Any hope? To forestall cities becoming "fortresses," the commission urges a na tional urban policy such as one unofficially suggested by Presidential Counsellor Daniel P. Moynihan several months ago. Moynihan declared then that "poverty and the social isolation of minor ity groups ... is the single most serious problem of the American city today." He urged an attack with "greater com mitment of resources" than have been spent so far. 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