The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, April 28, 1977, Page Page 4, Image 4
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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
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mosphere might als<
Vernberg said, "/
made of levels of
California with the
have come into bei
years. The increas<
released into the air f
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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
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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
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s dredged material fro
of Engineers harbo
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?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,
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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
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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
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'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
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sr in another
:gan to
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"NASTY HABIT!
"AN UNABASHED, OUTSPOK
PARODY OF WATERGATE
-PLAY
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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
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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.
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nmittee on Ocean Dump
partment, and his main
physiology and ecoh
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then has to be
of the nationi
ratification of
' where most
laved.
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water run-off
one knows how
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much is carried
e estimates say
m river run-off,
ractions and not
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