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Stop di By DEBORAH OOBE Gamecock Staff Writ The continual dumj toxic, so the cities wi more effective ways I land, said John Vernt Belle W. Baruch Inst "WITH THE GRC began to have problei the large amount of w general feeling is ths why not use the sea fc save our wonder vironment," Vernber Wednesday at the building. Cities which use cei vunctps nrnrlnrp m sp( can smother some i away with breeding induce disease in soi Ocean pollution a communities. A good finding of kepone in berg said. THE SEA IS NOT the atmosphere, Ve nrnHiir><v1 nn lunH nn mosphere might als< Vernberg said, "/ made of levels of California with the have come into bei years. The increas< released into the air f incorporated and du . ..\c * p1 * Soopi, C Via?cjirt^ iS\m, d Cookir^ < 21Z\ GO< C BUS / rrnn A PLACE: ( TIME: F| umpinj IS er sing of wastes can be ill have to start using :o get rid of sludge on >erg, director of USC's itute. >WTH of cities they tis of how to get rid of aste products, and the it the ocean is so big, ir dumping wastes and ful terrestrial eng said in a speech last College of Nursing rtain dumping sites for iiment build-up which narine organisms, do areas of others and -ne. 1cm thp shnrp example is the recent Virginia waters, Vernindependent of land or rnberg said. What is d released into the at 3 end up in the sea. i correlation has beer lead off the coast o! nnmhor nf pars uihir<( ng within the past 6< ed production of lea< *oes off to sea, becomes ssolves. a . ^ i (JQOIU Restaurant atte,ro[&> ? ' * AhWA diski. /Unhook, Ci.ilii lo56tt btqii wood Dm )D SUMA >PPORTUI FOR INESS & tAGMT. N D EARN! LJ A DPt 1AI nnnw vv FOR INTER :OLA. HALL, RIDAY, APR! g waste "Marine biologists < pollution factor of th< tion is if you stop p< obviously there will to the ocean and po decrease." SOME POLLUTAN not affect other par others such as chei DDT, PCT and kep distributed globally i may. In a sense tl biosphere and has to for certain types of p Silverstein, director c of USC. Although many ei been concerned aboi the earth for a long tii until recently. TKn main naccorl a liv; muni paoovM Protection Reseai : (MPRS) Act of 1972. to this time the onl dumping came fron Engineeers, who hac permits for transpor i "THEN THEIR CI the issue of these per and transDortation f i environmental factc f concerns and interes i MPRS act was estab ) could be dumped at i Most ocean dum s dredged material fro of Engineers harbo 2Kf * w * ?5 Ws . . . rt l'ft\ il/lll t > hi e-77l464fc HER JOB Nllltb BUSINESS IAJORS. NGS FOR ORKER. VIEW: , S.G. ROOM IL 29 3:00 p. s in the ?an pick this up in the i sea. So my assump3llution on land, then e less of it getting into llution is going to TS in U.S. waters may ts ot the world, but minnl c?mf Itntinc lil/n in iv-cii ojiiuic;IIV,O imc one which are being n increasing numbers le ocean is a single be considered as such ollutants, said Harvey if International Studies ivironmentalists have it the deterioration of Tie no action was taken act was the Marine *ch and Sanctuary \7omKnrrf coiH 4,DriA?? oaiu, x uui y regulation of ocean n the Army Corps of 1 the authority to issue tation of wastes. HIEF criteria used for wiSfc iiiarn nnniffofinrto 1 iiiivo uavigauuuai actors, irrespective of >rs. But with growing its in 1969 and 1970, the lished to regulate what sea." ping before 1973 was im the U.S. Army Corps r dredging operations, n I ?g #1# II * m \ I p i ii|] i E' HIS ' P "Al m. 1 vssss ocean, p industrial wastes and sew OTHER OCEAN DUMI and garbage, construc materials from cities and explosives and chemicals The MPRS act banned chi and radiological welfare ' Vprnhpro said rnnc pollutants began to grow i the international level at I 1971 a conference was hel representatives of 15 c marine pollution effects resources in the Baltic, A Oceans. A resolution to pr ships and aircraft into n passed in 1972, Vernberg Between 1973 and 19 decrease in ocean dumpii Now resolutions for ( deeper waters are being pi pointed out that when originated, "people werer the pollution effects, and ping in deeper water toda impact 50 years from my Vernberg said the possi cifa uroctoc rfaffitirr mif nf r o*w TT UUWVO gViVUIg UUk Ul V because "now there is cern." THERE IS AN economi cost more for the dumper material further out to i start using more effective sludge material on land, Silverstein said a natio not totally responsible for jjggg mmmmm ^W^claught, LATE S33 C 141' S?M< r_ JAI, ( "* "?? 1 11: IS P.M. j 1 LICE DOESN'T LIVE IEREANYMORE" ? rofessoi 'age sludge. polli mad *ING was refuse exar tion and waste Agei outdated military than i, Vemberg said, just emical, biological natii wastes at sea. said ern about the T1 n America and at orgs the same time. In repr d in Norway with maK :ountries on the tern > UII U1C lldlllllg rctic and Atlantic '"1 event dumping by vote narine areas was call said. rati: 75 there was a stat ng. the lumping sites in poll roposed. A student i dumping sites V I't concerned with trot if we start dum- thr< y what will be the mu w?" out ibility of dumping out :ontrol is not likely abc more social con- lan< din poll ic problem. It will sou s to take the waste sea. so cities will v ways to get rid of Coi Vernberg said. De| n's government is the decisions made on ani mw * ;V ' v> V. igertoldyou sr in another :gan to EBB fkh) "NASTY HABIT! "AN UNABASHED, OUTSPOK PARODY OF WATERGATE -PLAY SSSSSSSSBSSSSESSSSSSS5S r says ition regulation. "The le up of conflicting bur< tiple, the Environmen ncy (EPA) has very difi i the Department of Com a bilateral relation ons; It's very comple: lere are international n imzations (INGO) whicl esentatives from each ;e many decisions s ational pollution policie.* rHESE INGO'S meet at j on acceptance of a I ed a convention, which fied by the government e," Silverstein said. Th< convention is usually ution regulations are de i : J 11. uriiuerg barn sumu puiu iuced into the sea via fre )ugh the streams. "No ch pollution is being ph; and dropped, and how i by the rivers. But somi iut 75 to 80 per cent is fro d run-off and air-sea inte ect dumping. So the a lution nrohlems has to hf rces," Silverstein said. rERNBERG IS A ME nmittee on Ocean Dump partment, and his main physiology and ecoh mats. STUDENT SPECI AUM. UNLY $1. WITH THIS AD TO) SHOWS7:15 and! mmww i yourdaudhl life"? ' m} >*' . - , ' ^ iiiM WM a v mm _ __ C * ^w f^* .? "2601 BOY A SPACE OP government is saucracies, for tal Protection ferent interests imerce. It's not ship between k," Silverstein ion-government L. 11.. 1 n usuauy nave nation which ibout the in3 for nations. a conference to Final document then has to be of the nationi ratification of ' where most laved. ition can be insh water run-off one knows how ysically carried much is carried e estimates say m river run-off, ractions and not ttack of ocean ! from land base .niHhK oi me )ing of the State interest lies in agy of marine n kTinnn niiil, i| ter |! TS\ U TJsat. nites j 11msp.m. I: I YSSEYM!|