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GREENFIELD, MASS. RECORDER D. I'.QSXJ HONS 0 0 0 8 9 5 DEC 1 9 1977 ^ Poisonous chemicals, found -leaching from city landfill "By STEPHANIES. COOKE !. - Associated PressWriter . effect of more than 500,000 - pounds of PCB disposed in are phasing out their use of PCBs. and ere no longer oi- andeveniaruralareasteull dusty roads. - BOSTON (AP>-A chemir ' the damp over the past sere* kneed to damp them at the , "No oe ever reaHaed the ! cl known m cause serious ral years. The stndy want: r health disorders U seeptag -.released last week. - the problem of PCBs' with them," he sail ' slowly into areas surround- .7 PCBo are similarfat cfaemt gained aatkmal prominence "This Is tost net a local- ,ing a New Bedford dump. ical composition tod>DT, bat three years ego when high lied problem," Keeagh . cooUinlng more than SM.NQ are harder to break down levels of the chemical were- added. "The same problem ` t, pounds ofthe substance, the and remain in the environ discovered in Bah from the. exists in many, many \ '. IfcS. Environmental Protee- ment for several pears: Hudson River. areas.'' .. ; tion Agency says. X~igheeM - Since that tone the federalv--1--- The agency said polychlo "They are knows to have geveroment has placed ; rinated -biphenyls (PCBs) serious adverse human severe limits on the dis- . from the city's l.--wni were health effects tarloflngliver - charge' of PCBs, Eeontoi/ , discerered'to the north of disorders and reproductive itfffiMBtB, the our: ['the lfndffll, iathdAppooo - failures" he said. ......... -V PCB--Bnaffllotarer in the-" L gansett Swamp, and - in. PCBS hive been Baked to United States, is phoaiag out: sediment don(-the Paakn-. liver cancer in laboratory its predactien of the chemi- * , menaet River north of , BBimilk St uid, . ' cal, be said. . Interstates. -, . . y - But, Keough said, "there In Masaachnaetta, PCB The extent of the eontami- is no evidence of a health hazard associated with the has been Acoshoet RdiisvceorvetoretdhehiNtehwe 3 .*nmkin is not known, Paul G. migration of PCBs" from Bedford-Fall. Rivert area, 1 ;\Keougb,? a-/spokesman for thetaadfiH. I Parti of the New Bedford v \,SiPA>rgiooal -office in "Our big concern was Harbor have been dosed to ' VBoston,said. - whether this material was fishing hecaaae of contemi- < )(\) Drinking water; soppUat getting into drinking water nation. Keoegh laid. - . ..1 .Vtrere not affected, he said: supplies," Keough said. i Bisewbero-to the data, . cftaviroemental ofBcisis said The chemical has beet PCB has been discovered to-.- ''they thhi^P^B cootiBiiU' used a* an tnsnlatiag Said la the Housatoek River to the, '-- appears -to decrease i depth, aad'wpparenUy electrical equipment maaafactored to CorneB-Dnhaer Pittsfield area ax a result of waste discharges from the - " in the deeper Electric Corp. aid Aerovox Pittsfield General Electric t which drftk- Industries Inc, which have pt.nl ....................- . ' water /supplies are need the landfillto dump re Keoegh aaid PCBa have 1 . wh.- ' The "sainf. . were the jected products and wastes iwud.twlwg pcB, iccording bees used for toe past S' years to a variety of prod-; ; result ad a study eondneted totheEP; nets, todndtog Ouorooerot. 'tor Jans to determine the ^Keogb said I light!, televisions, redtof