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Spartanburg i By The Associated Press SPARTANBURG ? Spartanburg County residents have endured problems such as low water pressure and high iron levels that discolor the water, stain clothes and ruin appliances, sinks and toilets due to violations of a water and waste treatment system, residents say. "This damn water is not fit to drink. It'll gag you," .Harold Osteen, a Madera resident, said. "We've begged for city water, but we can't get nobody to do nothing." Several residents have reported sewage backing up in the streets, especially during heavy rains. The system was purchased four years ago by the second-ranking member of the State House and a top aide to Gov. Carroll Campbell. The co-owners of Madera Utilities Inc. are David Hawkins, the governor's director of legislative affairs, and state Rep. Jack Rogers, speaker pro tern of the House. Rogers said he invested a "small amount" in the project at Hawkins's request. Neither man handles daily operations of the facilities. "I hope the system is run properly because I want it to be," Rogers said. "But I don't want any headaches, and I would have no problem disposing of it." An inability to resolve the long history of problems seems even more unusual since the Spartanburg Water System and Spartanburg city sewer utility have lines in the area and could easily provide service to the neighborhood, acConditions prir By JAMESON GREINER Staff Writer A USC professor discussed the conditions he encountered during his travels to the African nation of Gambia as part of the Institute of International Studies' "Brown Bag Lunch Series." Upon returning from his visit, Morris Blachman, associate director of the Institute of International Studies, described Gambia as a country with a "primitive" society. "Life is on the edge," Blachman said. "The folks that get sick in an area like this either have some local remedy or way of dealing with it, or it simply takes its course either through some dehabilitating deficiency that gets created for them, a handicap or death," he said. The country's infant mortality rate supports these claims. About 140 to 180 infants per one thousand born die within their first year, said rrs; i Aid ( { < programs ai v V * Afterwai Y/ \ remain. < Of the 1 Eat an apple a day. < plied for ail : a! ?.s',3 aid. If mor < Run. . * < Floss once in a while. 4 Rfmfmber STD protection. ^ ^ \ 4 ~^t'' ^ iut... { <\ : Don't Drink & Drive! ^ (We wan! you around next year!) < > - ' H "?1 - I "?11 js jlpll I J I ] S K1:004 I ?^ i:f v Caro Idea I Yolar i ff "Multicultural Dt Teatu Tall Convocati Cart I Tuesday, Octobe US Rain Locati { P Carolina Program Union Dioisic dissociation oj African-America og !-or more information, i This activity is pa residents face w cording to the report. The utility provides water to the 50-house Madera subdivision and treats waste water from the subdivision and 222 households at area apartment complexes. A DHEC permit says state officials are supposed to order Madera Utilities to close its waste water treatment plant if access to a publicly owned sewer system is available, but the agency has not done that. The systems had an equally abysmal compliance record under Daniels's ownership, and DHEC records show that past and current owners have pocketed profits while generally ignor nig warnings iiuin nciiiiii unic-iais. The state Public Service Commission approved the transfer of ownership to Hawkins and Rogers despite a strongly worded objection from former DHEC Commissioner Robert Jackson in December 1985. Jackson pointed out that Hawkins, principal owner of the now-defunct United Utility Companies, showed a "total failure to devote adequate attention to basic operation and maintenance needs and an unwillingness to spend the money necessary to resolve recurring problems and to comply with DHEC standards." DHEC fined Hawkins $30,000 in April 1985 and ordered him to correct the deficiencies, but Hawkins did not pay the fine. Five months later, DHEC allowed him to pay a $5,000 fine and sell the systems to another company. Nevertheless, the Public Service Commission uitive in Africa. Blachman, who was traveling with a Catholic Dni;af xvi/Ut/jL jgivivg iiiiaaiuu. "I was really impressed with the sense of cultural integrity and personal integrity that I found, but at the same time there was such difficulty with the conditions," Blachman said. He said the small villages scattered around the country proved the existence of the underdevelopment and poverty level in Gambia. Each village consisted of about six to 12 huts, the best of which were made of cinderblocks and tin. The villages did not have any running water but had one well within walking distance, which often had dead animals and bacteria in it. Women would sometimes spend five hours a day doing hard work consisting mainly of I Continued from page 1 re diminished. 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Madera Utilities also operates a small sewage treatment plant that serves 410 households in two Pickens County subdivisions. THrFf finpH thf? rnmr?3nv $10 000 for rf\ peatedly exceeding effluent limits and failing to install necessary equipment in October 1989 ? the same problems that persist at the Spartanburg facility. The company will collect $12,475 a month, or nearly $150,000 a year, from its 670 sewer and 50 water customers when rate increases take effect in January. In a July 31 letter that noted that many of the same deficiencies have existed for years, DHEC told Hawkins that he must hire a certified operator to make daily inspections of the water treatment system. DHEC's inspection listed 26 deficiencies, including dirty filters and an open valve that allowed untreated water to flow into the system. Drops in pressure indicate the well cannot produce enough water to serve residents, who not only drink and bathe in it but also use it to irrigate lawns and fill swimming pools. DHEC records show the system repeatedly has exceeded maximum limits for biochemical demand and total residual chlorine, which indicate whether waste water is adequately treated before it's discharged into Ranson Creek. , professor says crushing grain by hand to make meal for dinner. "The poverty level was so severe that even tnose who lived at a higher level in that society still live at a level that probably we in this country would not consider very high," he said. He accredits many of the problems and poverty of Gambia to the lack of money the government has for the nation and its people. He believed the situation would not get better until it was possible to change the direction of the development of the country. "They felt no sense of guilt or shame about what their conditions were," Blachman said. "They were acutely aware of the difference of what they had and what they would like to achieve for themselves and other people in their population." 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