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-------jued from Page 1A . someone failed to yield the right investigatiortof the Intersection cally decreased since the con-
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^m^posted along thesouu^ Residents near that Intersec- being Investigated, and no deci- of the most dangerous road-
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.4 : Richard Loney has .lived oft. Corder said anyone who • decrease) because of our police
ing dmm CirdeDrive for the past three wishes to • have Texas deparUfteot, but I think a lot of it
; , )CkS ,8 to° years. HIS back yard feces, the Department of Transportatlon has to do with the completion of
last; iftis is a residential area, intersection of South Alexander baffle engineers look, at a spe- Eagle Drive,” Whitman said!
; Ledyig said When those ^ Buslness l46.; .; )dfic location for signs can call ‘So far this year Mont Behdeu
C?me^ Ck “The yield sign--should be 713-'802-5831. Ka$ had accidents .Last
r placed with, a stop sign, :-City Clerk Gary Smith said, year's total was 154. The top
1. Highway 146 at Souths
2. Gartli at Cedar F
3. Garth between Roingbriok a
4. Highway 146 at Texas
5. Highway 146 at Lacy
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^Di^aJong here”11131^ SUm There's too much conversion at the dtydoes not have anyplans . intosections for accidents in
i With Highway 146 ^
: .™at<j lu during the day: The flashingyeT Safetyestfmatothatmorethan' Loop 2D7:Com.binedthere have
said. “There’s for increasing signs in the dty.- Mont ffehdeu are FM 565 at
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(accidents) at night than ;v The Department of Public . Eagle Drive,and FM 565 at
, 10 , , . * . muuig the day ITie flashing yel- Safetyestfmates that morethan' Loop2D7/Combined there have
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, wajra are^ higher than around .L0Ijey fr concerned that he - : Sixty percent of the accidents The intersection of FM 565
residential neighborhoods^ and his wife will be involved in between Baytown, 'Mont and Eagle Drive saw 13 car'
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most or the accidents George McCraney, another -ume, but DPS statistics show 18 accidents have occurred
: Baytown occur near the free- n^m on Circle Drive, has a that 10 percent of tiaffic.acd-, along EM 565 so &. Last year
i t t i iim " backyard that lines the intersec- dents klso occur along Highway FM-565 had . 34 traffic acci:
A *ot ot, the Tataliues this don He worries about his wife 146 arid FM 565. ' depb.-Eagle Drive h<id 46 traf-.
year have been spread out. ^d said that in. her small • '. Twelve people died in car fic accidents last year. Last year
; « CI^3 ^ a m erSCC Honda, she has a blind spot ere- accidents as a direct result of FM 565 at Loop 207 had two
v °°u i j-° ij rf, ''if atedtythe45-degreeangle.it construction along Interstate 10 traffic accidents. Highway 146
Hoi en o er tersec- takes to. pull out northbound nearly five years ago. said Mont had several accidents at the
! unS,A°! rnCu£along Highway'146. - Belvieu Police. Chief'Jerry Looo-207 intersection last year,
should be Garth Road between Tve here since ‘78,'and Whitman. "•- . ' but none this-year;
Rollmgbrook and WeshBaker fhepast seven or eight years the '
Road Garth at Cedar-Bayou- traffic has really gotten bad”
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Motorists also tend to had ^-rerted actfdents m
Jydroplane at the base of the ■ y one , fatality that spurred
g6' Sf 30 investigadon iy the Texas
northbound in the ram, Holden DepartmJ“f Importation.
This past year, a fatality nJ^r WDe^rtmeS
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We never stop working for you?
EPA data shows fewer
toxic chemicals released
By JOHN HQLPRIN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The
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cals went into the land 27 percent
into the aif and 4 percent into, the
water. . -
EPA required facilities to pro-
amount of toxic chemicals vide data if they used or produced
released into the environment more than 100 pounds of lead;'
declined 13 percent in 2001, previously, they did so if they
according to the government’s used more than 10,000 pounds or.
latest' inventoiy.. produced more than' 25,000
Some 6.J6 bilUon pounds yverp pounds. Lead releases in 2001
released that year, down from 7.1 increased to 443 million pounds,
billion pounds a year earlier, the ^ ftom 374 ^iUkm pounds ift
Environmental Protection .2000.
Agency reported. Because of the change in how
Hard-rock mining companies was tallied EPA calculated
and coal-burning power plants that if lead is taken out of the pic-
repeated their status as the biggest ture the total amount of all other
polluters. EPA's Toxics Release toxic chemicals released into the
Inventory, created under 1986 enyironmerit in 2001 was' 15.5 ,
law, mcludes information on more percent less than in 2000.
than 650 toxic chemicals. Dioxin, a chemical that is vvpr-
Linda Fisher, EPA’s acting risomp in even small amounts,
administrator, said the inventory increased to 328 pounds, up fiom
is one of the most important 220 pounds the year earlier, r
things EPA does. People can now ■ "The good news is.that overall
see figures mapped by state and pollution has declined” said'
county on the Internet, she said. Jeremiah Baumann, an environ-
By chemical, the most pollu- mental health specialist for U.S.
tiem came from copper and zinc Public Interest Research Group,
compounds, hydrochloric acid “But the bad. news Is that for ■
and lead manganese, arsenic, .some of the most tpxic-'chemi-
nitrate and barium compounds, cals, were'Seeing more, not less I
Sixty-nine percent of the chemi- pollution.”. ■ 1".
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 223, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 6, 2003, newspaper, July 6, 2003; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1051924/m1/5/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.