The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 285, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1983 Page: 1 of 38
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Additional $300,000
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WASHINGTON - The En- the French Limited site, EPA of-
vlronmental Protection Agency ficials said. Wastes dumped at the
has allocated an additional site Include heavy metals, oil,
1300.000 to complete studies of PCBs, phenols, acids and other
contamination and alternatives substances. In 1973, the owners of
for cleanup of two Crosby waste the site declared bankruptcy and
disposal sites.
Of the funds, $175,000 will be
spent to complete site investiga- dumping was discontinued at both
tion and feasibility studies at the sites in the early 1970s.
Sikes Disposal Pits and $125,000 Recent tests have indicated
for the same purpose at the that, because of toxic wastes at
French Limited Disposal site. French Limited, ground water is
TotalEPASuperfundspending contaminated as are adjacent
-——at Sikes, including the additional drainage ditches that discharge
funds, will amount to nearly into the San Jacinto River. Low
$670,000. French Limited study levels of contamination were
costs will total almost $592,000. measured in the air during tests
The Superfund, a $1.6 billion na- of the pit.
tional trust fund, was established In April 1982, EPA awarded a
by Congress to pay for cleaning $437,000 cooperative agreement to
up priority hazardous waste sites, Texas for remedial investigation
said Karen Brown, a public af- to determine the type and extent
fairs specialist with the EPA in of contamination at the French
--------Dallas.
“Sikes and French Ltd. are two study to identify cleanup alter-
of the 50 top priority hazardous natives. Work is scheduled for
sites in the nation,’’ said Ms. completion in the next several
Brown, “and initial remedial months. In March, EPA added
measures have been taken at almost $30,000 to the cooperative
these two sites.”
During the 1960s and 1970s, the
EPA contendffowners of the Sikes June, EPA had removed PCB-
Pits dumped chemical wastes contaminated sludge from
from local petrochemical com- French Limited to be disposed in
panies into four pits, con- an approved facility,
taminating surface water. The Preliminary funds for the Sikes
EPA suspects contamination of dump study totaling $476,000 in
ground water as well. the form of a cooperative agree-
Industrial waste, in amounts of ment were awarded to the state in
100.000 barrels a day, was June 1982. Since then, EPA has
dumped between 1966 and 1972 at (See CLEAN, Page 2-A)
deeded the facility to the state.
According to EPA reports,
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Limited site and a feasibility
agreement.
Using emergency funds in
CHAMPION HYDROPLANES COMING TO CLEAR LAKE
THE SQUIRE SHOP will be one of many entrants in the World Cham- event of the season. Miss Budweiser will also be on hand after setting a
year. For a full
story in Soper
Sd record of more than 135 miles per hour test y
own of the weekend activities at Clear Lakh, See
pionship Hydroplane Race to be held at Clear Lake Sunday. It is cur-
flnd Miss Budweiser and Atlas Van Lines in the
national points standings heading into this final Sport Thursday.
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Anahuac Man
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Liberty County Resident Watches Hearing
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PACE, a group of Liberty Coun- dikes we have planned this would
ty environmentalists, seems just be negligible,” said Joeris. “Our
as intent on keepin§Enviro-Safe conclusion is that we’re not wor-
out as the Maxwells are on getting ried about this at all.
“No water will ever be able to
Bill Daniel, PACE president flow freely off the site without go-
and also its legal counsel, vows ing through a lift station where
the citizens group will fight to the water will be tested” said
keep the county free of toxic Joeris. He added that the site’s
uncontaminated water, which
Len Joeris, Enviro-Safe general will accumulate on the site during
manager, described the land pnF rains, will pass to Pine Island
posed for the site as “marginal Bayou via Willow Creek,
farmland” fringed by
timberland. He believes the site is to make sure the water is ab-
ideal because of its location (the solutely uncontaminated,” said
nearest resident lives more than Joeris. “We’re out to create a na-
one and one-half miles away) and tional model,
its underlying clays, which could The Maxwells became in-
provide a barrier should man- terested in the possibility of a
made, protective landfill layers waste dispostu site for use by area
ever give way. industry in the late 1970s. In 1980
“There could be some flooding they commissioned a site
at the extreme edge of the 100- feasibility \tudy, which turned
year flood plain, but with the (See
By DAVID BYFORD
DEVERS — Lloyd Maxwell is
confident that a 583-acre chunk of
his family’s extensive land
holdings will soon be used for the
disposal of hazardous wastes.
At present, he and his brothers
— Arthur, David, Donald and
Lamar — are standing aside,
watching a permit fight being
waged between People Against
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A 48-year-old Anahuac man was
electrocuted around noon
Wednesday as he helped move an -
oil derrick from the Goose Creek "
Oil Field in Tabbs Bay.
Nathaniel Dabney was prou-
, nounced dead at San Jacinto
Methodist Hospital after receiv-
ing In electrical shock.
Police said Dabney was on Up
of a derrick that was being
transported by barge. He was
reportedly raising low-lying
power lines with a broom when
the lines slipped, hitting Dabney
and electrocuting him.
Dabney was an employee of „
Malco of Anahuac. Clews from
Malco and Brown and Root Inc.
were dismantling all the oil der-
ricks in the Goose Creek Oil Frod-
due to damage from Hurricane
Alicia.
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Contaminated Enviroment and
Enviro-Safe Services of Texas
Inc., the company set on buying
the Devers land for the waste site.
Through a series of hearings,
permits must be obtained from
the Texas Air Control Board, the
Texas Department of Water
Resources and the Environmen-
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WEATHER
FAIR AND MILD weather
is forecast for the Baytown
area through Friday.
Temperatures are expected
near 60 degrees Thursday
night and in the mid-SOs Fri-
day. From 8 a.m. Wednes-
day to 8a. ih. Thursday alow
LLOYD MAXWELL
We’re behind this thing 110 per- tal Protection Agency. The TACB
cent right now.
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hearing is now in progress
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Fluoridation
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Pearce Street Journal - -
Astro-nomical
Receive Tickets
f three winners in last
week’s Baytown Sun football con-
test will receive two free tickets..
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Each of
We have to brag on the Houston
Astros. After their ninth-straight
season-opening loss, who would
have thought they would be in
mathematical contention until the
last week..
degrees were recorded.
fa.
to the game between Kbss S.
Sterling fend Pasadena Dobie at
Stallworth Stadiiun Friday night.
The winners are Rick Powers of
217 E. Adoue, Mrs. R.G. Mitchell
of 1105 Fleetwopd and Cliff
McKee of Hollands.
The three will be eligible for a
drawing id the end of the high
school football season to pick a
winner of four free tickets to the..
Bluebonnet Bowl game Dec.31 at
t the Astrodome.
for construction and installation district maintains its own water
of the metering system, another wells, BAWA will provide about
bid for fiberglass tanks for about 350,000 gallons of water a day, or
$9,000 has already been approved, about one-half the district’s needs
City crews will install the tanks to at the regular rate <y $1 per 1,000
save some expense. ‘
Before the city converted from »city Council’s approval of the
ground water to surface water, 20-year contract J#needed before
wells contained varying amounts it is submitt^ to the water
Of fluoride, in some cases, more district for itoapproval. It could
than what will be put Into BAWA take as 1
water, Bosley said.
The state health department BAW
sets levels for amounts of fluoride
to be put in water supplies. The
prescribed amount is enough to
help prevent tooth decay, but not Manager Fritz Lanham said,
enough to cause staining of the Directors also approved a se-
teeth, said Norman Dykes, city cond amendment to a contract
engineer and public works direc- with the city of Houston which ups
tor. ' the amount of water for wHich
In other business, BAWA direc- Baytowp must pay per day.
tors approved a contract with The amendment increases the
Harris County Water Control and effective taker pay from 6 to 8
Improvement District No. 1 in million gallons per day.
Highlands. Regardless of whether BAWA
Since the Highlands water (SeeLONGJPagtl-A)_^^^
By LISA OCKER
After several months of trying
ttf get an acceptable bid, Baytown
Area Water Authority directors
awarded an $18,500 contract for
fluoridation equipment Wednes-
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TO ROGER WYLIE, inven-
ting is just making more out
of less. The retired Exxon
Chemical engineer has six
patents to his credit Wylie
discusses his latest inven-
tion, a new technique for
producing paraxylene, in
BUSINESS, pagelS-A.------------
ABOUND
‘TOWN
gallons
day.
Plant Manager Richard Bosley
said the bid submitted by Butler
Professional was about $1,000
STEPIfANIE SISSON, 4, is look- more than estimated for the pro-
ing forward to a 10-kilometer run- ject, but original bids taken and
ning competition in the “Pro- rejected were about twice what
Comfort Run” Sunday in Houston was estimated.
. /. Army Pvt. Parrish L. Ander- The state health department,
son has graduated from advanced which is funding the entire
individual training at Fort fluoridation, project, must ap-
Jackson, S.C. ... Jean Dean prove the bid before the contract
volunteers the use of her camera is actually awarded, however,
for a good cause. Two «t%r contractors invited
Actor Gary Busey, who was to bid on the construction and in-
born in Baytown, has the leading stallation of the fluoride metering
role in the movie about the late pump station submitted no bids.
Paid “Bear” Bryant, the legen- To bring the price down from
dary football coach. Gary is the what was originally bid, the
nephew of Zenobia Booth of package deal was divided into two
Baytown. contracts. Besides Butler’s bid
as one year before
the Hirflands district takes
^water since it must first
ads and construct storage
and infrastructure to ac-
comodate BAWA' water, City
Mexican City Hall .
Stormed By Police
JOE LAGOW has been
managing ranch and farm
operations at Barrow’s
Ranch in Anahuac for 38
years and is still loving
every minute of it. Even
though the Department of
the Interior has taken over
much of the property,
Lagow still is in charge of
guided hunts. See PEOPLE,
page 5-A.
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP)
— Police shooting tear gas tried
to retake the Juchitan city hall
but were held off by citizens who
support the ousted leftist mayor
of the town, a leftist party said
Wednesday.
Neither side reported injuries
or damage. __
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 285, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1983, newspaper, September 29, 1983; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1152783/m1/1/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.