anaheim-gazette 1949-05-26

Assembly Committee Outlines Its Program for Water Pollution Control Sacramento, May 26.—Water pollution in California can best be prevented and controlled, the Assembly Interim Fact Finding Committee on Water Pollution has reported, by: 1. Separating health hazards from pollution which has merely economic effects and adopting a different approach to each. 2. Coordinating all agencies concerned with the problem and encouraging cooperative efforts to eliminate pollution, with local control of pollution problems. 3. Assisting communities with the financing of local sewage treatment plans. 4. Providing a continuing survey and check on the quality of our water resources. The committee, headed by Assemblyman Randal F. Dickey of Alameda, submitted its conclusions and recommendations to the assembly in a 108-page report on its two years of investigation and study of California water pollution which was instituted by the legislature in 1947. A series of 13 bills which would write the committee's recommendations into law is now pending in the legislature. California's pollution problem is the outgrowth of 100 years of development in the state, climaxed now by a sudden spurt in both population and industrial activity, Past efforts to control pollution have held the problem in check to a point where "little permanent or irreparable damage has been done to our waters" but pollution is still widespread and the time has come for the state to adopt an effective and equitable program of pollution control, the committee declared. Chief responsibility for failure to control pollution up to now was placed by the committee on the so-called "permit law" enacted in 1907 and administered by the State Department of Public Health. This permit law empowers the department to issue permits for construction and operation of sewage and waste disposal works and to require that such disposal shall not menace the public health or create a nuisance. But, a department official told the committee, "a literal and complete enforcement would result in restraining injunctions against a large percentage of the communities and industries in California," with the result, the committee pointed out, that the department closes its eyes to hundreds of instances of pollution which do not menace the public health and many that do. As a remedy for this unsatisfactory condition, the committee recommended as a first step that pollution which menaces public health be separated from pollution with economic or nuisance effects only, for differing methods of attack. For pollution menacing public health, the committee recommended the most rigorous action, including strengthening the authority of the State Department of Public Health, and giving State and local health departments complete jurisdiction in this field. Public health is and must remain paramount, the committee declared. For pollution involving only economic and nuisance effects—and this involves most industrial pollution—the committee recommended a program coordinated and cooperative action, supervised and enforced by nine Regional Pollution Control Boards, located in the principal drainage basins of the state, and an overall State Pollution Control Board, which would supply coordination at the State level. As evidence of the need of coordination, the committee cited the fact that there are, in California 26 Federal agencies, 52 State agencies and 28 different types of local agencies concerned with water pollution. In this chaos of conflicting and overlapping agencies, neither the citizen with a complaint about pollution nor an industry seeking information on how to comply with the law can find a single central agency which can give it satisfaction. Under the committee's program, the regional boards would fill this function and promote cooperative action by bringing together all affected industries, government agencies and all other interests concerned for concerted action on any given pollution program. The stakes in early and satisfac- California's pollution problem is the outgrowth of 100 years of development in the state, climaxed now by a sudden spurt in both population and industrial activity, pointed out, that the department closes its eyes to hundreds of instances of pollution which do not menace the public health and many that do. 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Governor Knight would appoint Warren to the job; that he would head up a large insurance concern; that he planned to be legal counsel for a large oil concern. The one question the governor did not deny was that he would run for a third term as California's chief executive, and on this one, he merely said it was too early to give it consideration. He expressed hope that the assembly would give a bill creating a commission to study fair employment practices a "full hearing" and declared that he would support his original budget bill, but said it was reasonable to expect some revisions in a budget as big as California's. No comment on the 700 cuts in his budget, which net totaled the reduction nearly ten million dollars. The Legislature: Pay for the solons ran out May 18, and the members of the two houses are existing on $10 per day expense money from the state, plus, of course, whatever they dig out of their own pockets. 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