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^f iowswa -mm wb- ="" ' w` <4 r i fumes found in sewer line , yMJL*ttNt*rEjm Vinyl chloride ha* bm found in a sewer line leading from the S. T. Good rich Co. flam oa Sells Lame to the Ohio River. , .<, * The chemical was discovered idler sun w ho *wc working on the larga sewer tine complained of- fames that homed their 'rfjFS^ ? ir-^rs eyes P. and HI nauseated them. Lawrence, plant i manager' at Goodrich, said the company has analysed ^sS^o9*'* the fumes and has-fonad ``low concentra tion*" of vinyl chloride and other (hem., kals called aciylstcs. Be said the vinyl chloride could come |t58spsi 03ly from the Goodrich plant, bat the acrylates could, come from any one of several different plastks plants la the vicinity. Vinyl chloride is a substance used in 5* > milting some plastics. It hat been blamed for causing a rare form of liver Vv*y^ Jr-* cancer, angiosarcoma, which has killed at least sis former workers at the B. P. Goodrich plant here. Acrylates are chem icals used or produced in the manufac ture of several plastics. Jack Wilburn, executive director of the Metropolitan Sewer District (BSD), told e-f the district's hoard of the problem with tht fumes yesterday. % t -i > fesS?5$3 Work en lar^e sewer b delayed ... V; L \ * ci He said the fumes bad delayed work oa the Southwestern Outfall sewer, a large storm-sewer line that leads directly to the Pf. ^K^y* Ohio River. The sewer line, about 27 feet high and fr#- IS feet wide, lies about 53 feet below *, Zv" ground. Originally, R carried raw sewage from the southwestern part of LoaUwiUe directly into the Ohio River. --- * ' Several years ago, the USD installed a pumping station on the sewer line near ksjr"- Bells Lane and 41st Street. Wilburn said this station normally pumps all of the MSP sewage out of the line and to the Morris Forman Sewage Treatment Plant on Belb Lac*.J3*.only "T^ time water geta fay the pumpie$-station, and into the river, be said, b wted e heavy twin damps more wteriTstd*the sewers than the pumps tan handle. Wilburn said- the B. F. Goodrich Co. has a sewer line leading into the south- j western Outfall sewer below the jmrapieg if station. The water from the Goodrich i? sewer flows directly into through the Ohio the USD line River, be said. Aa/n' d- j!lt The- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is requiring the USD to install large floodgates in the South western Outfall line Just, downstream from the pumping station, to keep Ohio Rivet floodwaten from baddu op. into the pumping station. - V .. Workmen discovered the fumes, .Wil burn said, when they broke through'the ffi gtfi* ***** Thomas J. McBride, in 5fSD' engineer, said .the sewer line normally is closed to the air. The outlet, he'said, Is beldw the lerelof the Ohio River. He arid there were no complaints of the fumes until the, workmen broke.into the line. . v._V> v Fames flew threngh pipe Svq though thy B. F. Goodrich aeweg, pipe jpfdewjwtrerin'' fromaheMte Mfa now pit*, lynbuin mb# th. femes ;fl*w 3 back through the MSDpipa. Hi Said the 55-foot shaft the workmen dog to get to tbe line acts as a chimney and draws the fumes upward. Wilburn said the fames era net con stant,-but seem to flit the sewer line at least once a day. Me said the workmen could see them coming as a "cioudy white mist.'* The Munich Engineering Co, of Jeffer sonville, which is doing the work on the sewer lino, has asked the MSD for perv mission to delay the scheduled completion, of the work. . ,. In addition to the problem with the fumes, Wilburn said, the company is haw ing a hard time getting the floodgates from the manufacturer. - The original deadline for completing the work was February 1975. Munich En gineering has triced the USO ta postpone the deadline to fast 1975. The MSD board decided yesterday to Investigate farther before granting the defer. -i H ? ii :i - ,y.s.:.; ' VvV.^i-r *:`m . ...______ -. --r . ^ r-.-.Ji-.AA.-1 "5 . s'. Distribution; -- "v.sworf ' A. Vittone R. D. Scott J. L. Nelson H. Waltemate B. M. G. Zwicker G- Pow BFG33514 kb 8g!iESS:f.'-!w-JSif&rmJi'- G\ . rv si" W. J. Wilcox P. J. Weaver R. B. Downey M W 8 e^Sd^T-.-r-f: ' a'.' - -.r. . --- - - E. B. Osborne K Greene W. Harrington / iev - A-x-tr. HdLimtfl - C. R. Flynn