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mm ■ . 11The Prospector, June 20,1984 - Page 3
Students blame ASARCO for air pollution
By John Hupfer
Prospector Staff
A dirty haze ... a pungent odor...
the taste of sulfur... fingers point to
the smokestacks on the river.
UT El Paso students blame ASAR-
CO Inc. for much of the air pollution
hovering over the campus.
“Whenever I taste the sulfur in the
air I know ASARCO is at it again,”
said senior engineering major Derek
Sanchez.
Graduate student John Lynch said,
“I’ve left campus a couple of times
because of the stuff ASARCO puts
out.”
But, Environmental and Communi-
ty Health Services Chief Raul Munoz,
Jr. said people are blaming ASARCO
for air pollution when they shouldn’t.
“If you had asked me about ASAR- cent years, adding that ASARCO was
CO two years ago I would have told never a big contributor to air pollu-
you all sorts of bad things, but they tion on campus.
have really turned things around,” In the mid-1970s concentrated
Munoz said. clouds of sulfur dioxide escaping
“El Paso industries have invested from the plant would cause students
millions of dollars in pollution con- on the campus to experience momen-
trol,” he said. Munoz said the big- tary discomfort such as watering
gest investor has been ASARCO at eyes and coughing, Clouse said.
more than $120 million.
He said that led students to believe
Environmental Quality Specialist that ASARCO was severely polluting
Archie Clouse of the Texas Air Con- the air, however, ASARCO was in
trol Board said complaints about compliance with government stan-
ASARCO from students at the Univer- dards at the time.
sity have dropped dramatically in re- in 1978 the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency instituted tougher stan- government standards are much
dards for allowable pollutant emis- stricter than normal health stan-
sions, which meant that ASARCO, dards.
along with all other smelters in the Sieverson said ASARCO has
United States, was no longer in com- designed its own computerized gas
pliance with government standards, management system, which, through
Clouse said. a sophisticated series of damper
He said it forced ASARCO to invest monitors and controls, prevents the
more money in pollution control to formation of the sulfur dioxide
stay in business. clouds that had plagued the Universi-
ASARCO’s Environmental ty and the surrounding area.
Superintendent, Jim Sieverson said Students will continue to taste
since that time ASARCO has been sulfur from time to time, but sulfur
doing everything it can to minimize dioxide emissions are well within
pollution. government standards he said.
He said toxic lead emissions, Sieverson said there is no need to
which caused much controversy point the finger at ASARCO when it
among the residents of Smeltertown comes to air pollution.
in the mid-1970s, have been reduced - “Pollution controi at ASARCO is
below the latest government stan- ongoing. We will continue to add to
dards. He added that the latest the $120 million total,” he said.
Worker injured during blackout
The lights went out in the
eastside of The Union last Tuesday
and stayed out until Thursday.
The problem was caused by a
defective circuit breaker, said Far-
rell Cichetti, a UT El Paso electri-
cian.
One of Cichettl’s assistants was
injured during the blackout when a
350 watt amp he was changing
short circuited a main breaker,
Cichetti said.
Abel Lachica received a
flashburn to his left eye. Cichetti
said Lachica was taken to Sun
Towers Hospital for treatment and
released later that day.
“We thought he was hurt worse
than he really was because he was
covered with black powder from
the flash,” Cichetti said.
He said Lachica was back at
work the next day.
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Student Association Senate
June 21,1984
Thursday
5:30pm
Location: Student Association Chambers
304 Union East
I. Call to Order/Roll Call
II. Approve Agenda/Approve Minutes of June 14, 1984
III. Announcements
IV. Vice-President of External Affairs Report
V. Presidential Address
VI. Finance Committee Report
VII. Old Business
A. Bill No. 4 - Circle K International Convention
B. Project Committee Reports
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A. Bill No. 5 - Dinner Theatre Ad
B. Bill No. 6 - Alpha Epsiion Rho National Convention
C. Faculty Senate Standing Committees and Student Association Posi-
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University of Texas at El Paso. The Prospector (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 65, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 20, 1984, newspaper, June 20, 1984; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1625958/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas at El Paso.