FIREMAN, 74, KILLED IN TRUCK MISHAP
A 74-year-old volunteer fireman was killed yesterday afternoon at the scene of a fire that gutted a furniture-stripping company in Midland Park.Marinus "Patrick" Witte jumped off a fire truck to connect a hose to a hydrant, and the truck backed over him. Witte was taken by ambulance to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, where he was declared dead on arrival.He had been with the volunteer department for 43 years and was the first borough firefighter to die in the...
WATER CURE,
CONSULTANT SAYS CORTLAND COULD CONSTRUCT AIR STRIPPING TOWERS IF CONTAMINATION SPREADS
The city should erect two air stripping towers if it wants to entirely remove several industrial compounds threatening the public water supply, according to a spokesman for the firm that has been studying the contamination of the area's ground water.``If they don't want to see any levels in the water, then they should build the towers,'' said Sam Stowe, vice president of Ground-Water Associates of Westerville, Ohio, who plans to meet...
AQMD ADVISED TO OK N. HOLLYWOOD AIR-STRIPPING TOWER
The South Coast Air Quality Management District should allow construction of a North Hollywood air-stripping tower to remove toxic solvents from well water, a hearing officer recommended Thursday.Hearing officer Eugene Califato said he would have recommended a delay if the Department of Water and Power had not agreed to put carbon filters on the towers to prevent release of toxic solvents into the atmosphere. Califato's recommendation is expected to be adopted by the AQMD,...
Times of Zambia - AAGM:
Stripping of ZR Rail Sleepers Worries State
GOVERNMENT has bemoaned the wanton asset stripping of Zambia Railways infrastructure and called for thorough investigations to establish whether it was part of the concession agreement.Ndola district commissioner Victor Konie, who toured the infrastructure, complained about the stripping of the rail sleepers across the Kafubu stream and the one leading into the goods shed. He also wondered why the plot where the railway line passed had been allocated to someone to develop because that...