September 22, 1971 (12 pages)

a BRS — Fe ag te ‘ , x 10 The Nevada County Nugget, Sept. 22, 1971 _ Bizz reports WASHINGTON, D.C, Theoverall expenditures required to control air, water and solid waste pollution throughout the nation during the six year period between 1970 and 1975, inclusive will exceed $105 billion, This is the estimate contained in the second annual report of the Council on Environmental Quality, Congressman Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson, an active member of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Works which has taken the legislative leadership in the national pollution battle, has placed one copy of the comprehensive, 360-page report in each of the county libraries of the Second Congressional District. Estimates contained in the report filed by the council headed by former Undersecretary ofInterior Russell Train. indicate that the problem of solid waste disposal. will be the most expensive to overcome, estimating a six-year cost of $43.5 billion, Water quality control, an area in which substantial progress has been made but which needs much, much more work, is next in costs with a $38 billion estimate, Air pollution is the area which will. demand the least expense to correct, but even at that the estimate is $23.7 billion, The importance of making this in: vestment, however, is stressed in the further estimate that at the present time the economic cost of human mortality and morbidity from all air pollution in the nation today approaches$6 billion annually, This relates only to medical care and work loss, not discomfort, frustration and anxiety. Congressman Johnson, long -a vigorous advocate of stronger programs to clean up America's rivers, lakes and other waterways, stressed that the costs of water pollution are more difficult to document than the costs of air pollution, however, they are important, "They include the prices that industries and water users pay for treating polluted water for use,the price that housewives pay to soften water hardened by pollution and increased salinity, the clear economic losses in contaminated fish and lost fishery resources, and the costs of recreational opportunities destroyed by pollution," Representative Johnson explained, He cited some statistics contained in the 1971 report entitled "Environmental Quality." The ME BS Gk te a total damages in the Lower Colorado River Basin and Southern ‘California Water Service area caused due to excessive salinity is estimated at $16 million for 1970 and probably will increase to $28 million by 1980 if the trend is not reversed. . A recent study of the value of outdoor recreational opportunities at several California reservoirs, where water quality permitted a range of recreational activities, These values are lost when lakes become polluted. "In addition to the basic ques tion of having a cleaner, more healthy environment for our people to live in, this business of air and water pollution control ; and solid waste managementisasound economic investment in which I am confident the cost© benefit ratios will fall heavily 5 ae oe revealed annual * benefits from these ranging upto . . more than $2 million per lake. fr ye a a on the side of the benefits,” *Congressman Johnson said, "It is an expensive task we % face, but one we must under-take," Congressman Johnson said that most clean water expenditures will be for municipal _ and industrial waste treatment, with one of the biggest single items -which will cost from $15 to.$48 billion during the six year period depending upon the levels of suceess to be achieved --being the elimination of overflows directly into the nation's streams from combined sewers and storm drains when heavy rains overload sewage treatment plants. Most of this cost must be born by public agencies, Air pollution costs largely will be due to the control of particles escaping. from industrial and incineration operations and reduction of automobile pollutants, While municipalities must bear the cost of public incinerators and federal and state agencies will finance planning, enforcement, monitoring and much of the research, the biggest financial burden will fall on the private sector of the economy. In the third major area of pollution control, solid waste management, the costs will involve collection and disposal of residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial wastes, This will impose a heavy burden en both government and private sectors of the economy. Local government normally is responsible for collection of much of this, but industries do incur substantial ‘costs in transporting and disposing of their own wastes, Tahoe-Donner progresses & me * STANDING ‘NEAR CONSTRUCTION of the public lodge at the ski. complex in Tahoe Donner Robert E. Atkinson, (leff), and Edward idential recreational project. Dr. is plant pathology consultant for Tahoe for its on-site development, Pasteris of Grass Valley, Atkinson, nationally recognized authority on ground cover, Donner and Pasteris is project manager, responsible go over plans for the resMajor shift due CDH announces start in South Sac of silt, erosion study Freeway A major traffic shift is planned for the South Sacramento Freeway, Route 99, where a fourth lane has been added between 12th and 5th Avenues for inbound (north) traffic, Tuesday, existing through lanes will be shifted 18 feet to the left of their present alignment. This move will leave room for a fourth lane which will be marked. as a mandatory off-ramp to be used only~by traffic exiting to the Route 99/80 separation, This auxiliary lane will extend from 12th Avenue to the interchange facility. Motorists will be alerted to the nature of this lane by appropriate overhead signs located above the highway at the 5th and 12th Avenue structures, DO ALL YOUR BANKING AT MLB! THE MOTHER LODE AREA’S ONLY INDEPENDENT, HOME-OWNED AND OPERATED, FULL-SERVICE BANK kreektekk kk een Morar Love Bawx “=: " MEMBER F.D.I.C. GRASS VALLEY ¢ NEVADA CITY PLACERVILLE « SONORA ¢ FOLSOM ROSEVILLE ¢ TWAIN HARTE ¢ ALTAVILLE Interest Paid on Savings: at the Highest Legal Rate e Deposits Insured by F.D.LC. up to $20,000 e No Monthly Service Charge on Regular Personal Checking Accounts: Maintaining Minimum Balance of $300 or More. Night Depository . o Safe Deposit Boxes Master Charge Member Bank each. of the three’ The California Division of Highways has announced the start of work on an $8,000 experimental project to measure the effectiveness of various silt and. erosion. control methods suitable to the. Tahoe Basin, The work, scheduled to begin today, will be along a roadway. cut section adjacent to Highway 89 north of Luther Pass in El ‘ _Dorado county. The project and subsequent evaluation of results will be under the direction of the Highway's Tahoe Basin study engineer, Don Foster. ’ For the purposes of this experiment a cut slope approximately 100 feet high and about 200 feet long, approximately 21/2 miles north of Luther Pass, was chosen. The selected section was constructed 12 years ago and since that time has been subjected to a high degree of erosion, It is one of the area's most vulnerable slopes and shows the most evidence of distress from the effects of the weather. Water draining from this cut section, together with any sediment it might carry from the Everybody’s Favorite Te OLD Brewery On the PLAZA in Nevada City slope, flows into Grass Lake : Creek which in turn empties into the Upper Truckee River and from there into Lake Tahoe. The experimental section will be divided into three parts, Ditches will be constructed al the tops of the slope to intercept the drainage waters from the hillside above. This wil) insure that off-site drainage will not affect the results o/ the testing, Two portions of the slope wil be treated with commercial applications of different types o/ Plastic Penetrating Spray, Hopefully, this treatment wil] solidify the surface of the slope and offer protection against all types of erosion; i.e., wind, spray, rain, snow and freezethaw. action, If these tests prove successful, this"waterproofing" could be used on newly constructed slopes to hold the native material in place until satisfactory plant growth is established, The center section of the test strip will be left untreated, The State will then measure the amounts of sedidment originating from each portion, Good Drinks G

a BRS — Fe ag te ‘ , x 10 The Nevada County Nugget, Sept. 22, 1971 _ Bizz reports WASHINGTON, D.C, Theoverall expenditures required to control air, water and solid waste pollution throughout the nation during the six year period between 1970 and 1975, inclusive will exceed $105 billion, This is the estimate contained in the second annual report of the Council on Environmental Quality, Congressman Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson, an active member of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Works which has taken the legislative leadership in the national pollution battle, has placed one copy of the comprehensive, 360-page report in each of the county libraries of the Second Congressional District. Estimates contained in the report filed by the council headed by former Undersecretary ofInterior Russell Train. indicate that the problem of solid waste disposal. will be the most expensive to overcome, estimating a six-year cost of $43.5 billion, Water quality control, an area in which substantial progress has been made but which needs much, much more work, is next in costs with a $38 billion estimate, Air pollution is the area which will. demand the least expense to correct, but even at that the estimate is $23.7 billion, The importance of making this in: vestment, however, is stressed in the further estimate that at the present time the economic cost of human mortality and morbidity from all air pollution in the nation today approaches$6 billion annually, This relates only to medical care and work loss, not discomfort, frustration and anxiety. Congressman Johnson, long -a vigorous advocate of stronger programs to clean up America's rivers, lakes and other waterways, stressed that the costs of water pollution are more difficult to document than the costs of air pollution, however, they are important, "They include the prices that industries and water users pay for treating polluted water for use,the price that housewives pay to soften water hardened by pollution and increased salinity, the clear economic losses in contaminated fish and lost fishery resources, and the costs of recreational opportunities destroyed by pollution," Representative Johnson explained, He cited some statistics contained in the 1971 report entitled "Environmental Quality." The ME BS Gk te a total damages in the Lower Colorado River Basin and Southern ‘California Water Service area caused due to excessive salinity is estimated at $16 million for 1970 and probably will increase to $28 million by 1980 if the trend is not reversed. . A recent study of the value of outdoor recreational opportunities at several California reservoirs, where water quality permitted a range of recreational activities, These values are lost when lakes become polluted. "In addition to the basic ques tion of having a cleaner, more healthy environment for our people to live in, this business of air and water pollution control ; and solid waste managementisasound economic investment in which I am confident the cost© benefit ratios will fall heavily 5 ae oe revealed annual * benefits from these ranging upto . . more than $2 million per lake. fr ye a a on the side of the benefits,” *Congressman Johnson said, "It is an expensive task we % face, but one we must under-take," Congressman Johnson said that most clean water expenditures will be for municipal _ and industrial waste treatment, with one of the biggest single items -which will cost from $15 to.$48 billion during the six year period depending upon the levels of suceess to be achieved --being the elimination of overflows directly into the nation's streams from combined sewers and storm drains when heavy rains overload sewage treatment plants. Most of this cost must be born by public agencies, Air pollution costs largely will be due to the control of particles escaping. from industrial and incineration operations and reduction of automobile pollutants, While municipalities must bear the cost of public incinerators and federal and state agencies will finance planning, enforcement, monitoring and much of the research, the biggest financial burden will fall on the private sector of the economy. In the third major area of pollution control, solid waste management, the costs will involve collection and disposal of residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial wastes, This will impose a heavy burden en both government and private sectors of the economy.

Local government normally is responsible for collection of much of this, but industries do incur substantial ‘costs in transporting and disposing of their own wastes, Tahoe-Donner progresses & me * STANDING ‘NEAR CONSTRUCTION of the public lodge at the ski. complex in Tahoe Donner Robert E. Atkinson, (leff), and Edward idential recreational project. Dr. is plant pathology consultant for Tahoe for its on-site development, Pasteris of Grass Valley, Atkinson, nationally recognized authority on ground cover, Donner and Pasteris is project manager, responsible go over plans for the resMajor shift due CDH announces start in South Sac of silt, erosion study Freeway A major traffic shift is planned for the South Sacramento Freeway, Route 99, where a fourth lane has been added between 12th and 5th Avenues for inbound (north) traffic, Tuesday, existing through lanes will be shifted 18 feet to the left of their present alignment. This move will leave room for a fourth lane which will be marked. as a mandatory off-ramp to be used only~by traffic exiting to the Route 99/80 separation, This auxiliary lane will extend from 12th Avenue to the interchange facility. Motorists will be alerted to the nature of this lane by appropriate overhead signs located above the highway at the 5th and 12th Avenue structures, DO ALL YOUR BANKING AT MLB! THE MOTHER LODE AREA’S ONLY INDEPENDENT, HOME-OWNED AND OPERATED, FULL-SERVICE BANK kreektekk kk een Morar Love Bawx “=: " MEMBER F.D.I.C. GRASS VALLEY ¢ NEVADA CITY PLACERVILLE « SONORA ¢ FOLSOM ROSEVILLE ¢ TWAIN HARTE ¢ ALTAVILLE Interest Paid on Savings: at the Highest Legal Rate e Deposits Insured by F.D.LC. up to $20,000 e No Monthly Service Charge on Regular Personal Checking Accounts: Maintaining Minimum Balance of $300 or More. Night Depository . o Safe Deposit Boxes Master Charge Member Bank each. of the three’ The California Division of Highways has announced the start of work on an $8,000 experimental project to measure the effectiveness of various silt and. erosion. control methods suitable to the. Tahoe Basin, The work, scheduled to begin today, will be along a roadway. cut section adjacent to Highway 89 north of Luther Pass in El ‘ _Dorado county. The project and subsequent evaluation of results will be under the direction of the Highway's Tahoe Basin study engineer, Don Foster. ’ For the purposes of this experiment a cut slope approximately 100 feet high and about 200 feet long, approximately 21/2 miles north of Luther Pass, was chosen. The selected section was constructed 12 years ago and since that time has been subjected to a high degree of erosion, It is one of the area's most vulnerable slopes and shows the most evidence of distress from the effects of the weather. Water draining from this cut section, together with any sediment it might carry from the Everybody’s Favorite Te OLD Brewery On the PLAZA in Nevada City slope, flows into Grass Lake : Creek which in turn empties into the Upper Truckee River and from there into Lake Tahoe. The experimental section will be divided into three parts, Ditches will be constructed al the tops of the slope to intercept the drainage waters from the hillside above. This wil) insure that off-site drainage will not affect the results o/ the testing, Two portions of the slope wil be treated with commercial applications of different types o/ Plastic Penetrating Spray, Hopefully, this treatment wil] solidify the surface of the slope and offer protection against all types of erosion; i.e., wind, spray, rain, snow and freezethaw. action, If these tests prove successful, this"waterproofing" could be used on newly constructed slopes to hold the native material in place until satisfactory plant growth is established, The center section of the test strip will be left untreated, The State will then measure the amounts of sedidment originating from each portion, Good Drinks G