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Monday, February 2, 1976
University Daily Kansan
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Douglas County air rated clean except for particulates content
By JACK FISCHER
With few exceptions, residents of Lawrence and the Douglas County area can breathe easily, according to the Kansas Department of Health. The Douglas County Health Department.
Of the five pollutants monitored by the burean, only particulates in Douglas County exceeds the level permitted by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) regulations, Howard Saiger, director of the burean, said Friday.
Saiger said the pollutant not in compliance consisted of any kind of solid particles floating in the air. The health hazard is low, but it is important that County area isn't known, but Saiger said the bureau thought most of it was from naturally produced pollutants, and didn't know from industry.
THE PROBLEM of particulates is endemic to most midwestern states, and there is little that can be done to control it, Saiger said.
Dick Hack, a sanitarian for the Douglas County Health Department, said that unlike various gases monitored by the EPA, particulates were heavier and tended to settle on a region rather than floating up and being carried off by wind currents.
Hack agreed that the particulate probably were naturally produced, and said that despite them, the quality of air in Douglas County was generally good.
Saiger said that in a 12-month northeast Kansas area including Douglas County, 24 of 60 monitoring stations had shown an increase in particulates, and that the rest of the stations had shown a decrease over a four-year period.
JAN SIDES, chief of technical services for the bureau, said there were two monitoring systems used to try to meet EPA regulations.
The first, called ambient air monitoring,
consists of sensing equipment placed on rooftops and at various rural locations that determines the amount* of particulates and sulfur oxides in the air. The second system,
contains a sensor capable of measuring the amount of carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides that are expelled by specific industries.
Sides said these pollutants were selected by the EPA for regulation based on studies of air pollution made in California, one of the areas in the country to conduct such studies.
Aside from particulates, Sides said only sulfur oxides had been monitored long enough to determine whether they had increased significantly.
In Douglas County and in the surrounding region there have been a slight decrease in the number of children.
SAIGER SAID the presence of sulfur oxides had been linked with respiratory
Ray Burgein, chief of engineering and enforcement for the bureau, said industrial
stacks were checked annually with emissions monitoring. In addition, he said weekly field reports of all the industrial sites in the state were filed by employees of the bureau to help determine whether additional checks were necessary.
Industries that aren't in compliance with EPA regulations for emissions are notified and given 180 days to comply. Saiger said. He if the industry can't comply within that time hearings can onward an set agenda before the module for the use of equipment needed to filter emissions.
Saiger said the only industry in Douglas County that wasn't in compliance with EPA regulations was the Cooperative Farm Chemicals Assn. (CFCA) in Lawrence.
Too many variances permitting the CFCA to continue operations have been granted by the bureau. Cogimus said. They could close the office and move to another motivation to meet the regulations, he said.
GEORGE COOGGS, legal advisor for the Sierra Club in Kansas, said the CFCA had been violating the EPA regulations since its inception in 1970.
SAIGER SAID the efficiency of the monitoring equipment wasn't known but that it must meet EPA guidelines because it was part of the program from the EPA during its annual checks.
New voting districts, drawn by the Senate Elections Committee, for freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts were released at a meeting last night.
The five new geographic districts are necessary because freshmen and sophomores are no longer into colleges-within-a-college. Freshmen and sophomores previously elected student teams from their college-within-a-college.
Voting districts created
At present, the CFCA is waiting for a decision on its request for an extension on its variance from the Department of Health and Environment.
Demographics have a major concern in outlining the new districts, Bruce Woner, committee chairman said. The committee tried to have a balance between the students who live in residence halls and Greek houses in each district, he said.
District, which will elect five senators,
comprises: Alpha Chi Omega, Sigma Nu,
Delta Upsilon, Delta Gamma, Kappa Sigma,
Alpha Phi, Alpha Delta Pi, Delta
Delta Delta, Templin, Lewis, Hashinger
and McColburn hall.
District 2, which will elect six senators,
comprises: Tau Kappa Epsilon, Lambda Chi Alpha, Kiappa Theta, Alpha Kappa Evans, FiFi, NiFi, Evans, Ellsworth and Nainthalh seats.
District 3, which will elect five senators,
comprises: Pt Beta Phi, Phi Kappa Psi,
Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta, Alpha Tau Omega and Olive Hall.
District 4, which will elect five senators,
comprises: Kappa Kappa Gamma, Sigma Chi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Beta Theta Pi, Corbin Hall and all scholarship balls.
District 5, which will elect five senators,
comprises: Delta Tau Delta, Triangle,
Delta Chi, Sigma Alpha Epidaur, Sigma
Phi Delta, Delta Gamma, G.S.P. J.R.P. and
committing students.
Tentative voting hours for the February 18 and 19 election will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on on-campus polls and from 5 to 7 p.m. for district polls.
Final times will be decided Thursday.
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