FOREIGN DOCUMENTS Number 6
ANNOUNCEMENTS
SUMMARIES OF
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL
REPORTS
FEBRUARY, 1973
Library Systems Branch,
OfHct' of Planning and Management
Office of International Activities
U. S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Washington, D C 20460
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F0.1EWARD
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agencies in other countries, .EPA is building a collection of
environmental reports issued by foreign governments and international
organizations. This is the sixth in a series of Announcements of
foreign documents received.
The original documents can be obtained through the Library Systems
Branch (see back page for order form). More detailed English
abstracts can be provided when required. Full text translations,
which are expensive, should be requested only when essential for
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#1350-1 is used to request translations.
A computerized search system is being developed which will allow
future retrieval of these summaries by:
a. country
b. subject area
air
water
noise
pesticides
radiation
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This series, which is devoted to summaries of government reports
and concentrated on the legislative, economic and social aspects,
supplements foreign scientific and technical literature abstracts
covered by other EPA information services:
APTIC
SWIRS
PIC
NOISE
Ultimately, EPA plans to assemble a major collection of foreign
government environments documents and to develop several approaches
to the dissemination of this information to EPA staff. This
announcement of documents received is the first step.
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AIR
Brazil Article/Source Title: Ecologia E Poluicao: Code
Problemas Do Seculo XX (Ecology and Pollution:
Problems of the Twentieth Century) by Scientific Control
Editors: Homero Henrique Roas Rangel and No. SO-254
Aristedes Pinto Coelho.
Date/Place of Publication: May 1972, Rio de
Janeiro
Pages: 323 Language: Portuguese
Source Repository: LOG
This book is a compilation of a wide range of
articles resulting from a program held for the En-
gineering Club and for COPROC-MEC (Center for Orien-
tation and Protection, Ministry of Education and
Culture). Included among the articles are those
having to do with water pollution, the use of radio-
isotopes in the study of pollution, industrial waste,
sound pollution in large cities, the treatment of
biologically resistant industrial residues, and the
action of air pollution on works of art.
Japan Article/Source Title: United States-Japan Confer- Code
ence on Natural Resources Development. Sixth
Meeting Control
Date/Place of Publication: September 2-3, 1971 No. SO-255
Washington, D.C.
Pages: 165 Language: English
Source Repository: EPA
This report presents the highlights of the 6th
U.S.-Japan Conference on Natural Resources, held in
Washington, D.C., September 2-3, 1971. Scientists
and administrators from both nations reviewed the ac-
complishments of the previous year and discussed pos-
sible new cooperative ventures to be undertaken in the
future. The Conference was marked by increasing interest
in the problem of pollution, particularly the prevention
and removal of oil spills.
Brief mention is made of the Fourth Meeting of the
Joint Panel on Air Pollution, held November 13-14, 1969,
in Washington and the October 1970 meeting held in Tokyo
to discuss organizational basis for future U.S. coopera-
tion on the environment and the relationship of their
cooperative programs to multilateral programs under the
auspices of international organizations. Mention is made
also of the activities of the Joint Panel on Water Pollu-
tion. Cooperative projects are being considered which
relate to using U.S. advanced waste treatment research in
Japan in sewage treatment construction and joint research
on t.oxic materials.
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AIR
Japan Article/Source Title: Research and Development Code
of "Pattern Information Processing System"
Under National Research and Development Program. Control
Published by the Agency of Industrial Science No. SO-256
and Technology, Ministry of International Trade
and Industry
Date/Place of Publication: 1971, Tokyo
Pages: 9 Language: English
Source Repository: EPA
In the Appendix of this publication (pages 7-9),
the nine projects of the System of the National Re-
search and Development Programs are listed. Included
are:
Desulfurization Process. Sulfur removal from
stack gas jand sulfur removal from fuel oil. Project
period: 1966-1971. Total cost: $6.94 million. Ob-
jective: Develop technologies for removing sulfur
directly from heavy oil.
Electric Car. Project period: 1971-1975. Total
cost:$13.89 million. Objective: Development of an
electric car for city-bound transportation.
Turbofan Engine for Aircraft, 1st phase. Project
period: 1971-1975. Total cost: $18.61 million. Ob-
jective: Development of a turbofan engine which,
among other things, will generate less pollutants.
Netherlands Article/Source Title: "Handling of Derivatives: Code
New Transshipment Method at Rotterdam 'Chemie-
haven1." Rotterdam-Europoort-Delta Control
Date/Place of Publication: 1972/73 (Published Ho. SO-257
Quarterly by the Port of Rotterdam)
Pages: 23-24 Language: English
Source Repository: EPA
In an article dealing with the transshipment and
storage of derivatives at the new 'Chemiehaven' basin
facilities of the Graan Elevator Maatschappij (GEM)
in Rotterdam, mention is made of the fact that GEM has
given maximum consideration to the prevention of dust
pollution. The cost involved amounted to 7% of the
total sum invested, $4,000,000. Dust extractors
fitted with dust filters are installed at various loca-
tions in the unloaders. These extractors use about
15% of the power consumption of each machine. Additional
extractors with dust filters are installed at various
places along the entire transport route from the sea-
going ship to the barge/coasters.
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AIR
Scotland
South
Africa
South
Africa
Article/Source Title: "Pollution Problems from
Waste Incineration and Possible Remedies" by
W. Short, (N.I.F.E.S.)- Clean Air
Date/Place of Publication: Spring 1971,
Brighton, England
Pages: 20-33 Language: English
Source Repository: LOG
Code
Control
No. SO-258
This paper, delivered to the Scottish Clean Air
Conference, 1970, treats incinerator design problems,
including calorific values and waste quantity, residue
material and gaseous residue. In discussing noxious
gases from refuse incineration, gas cleaning and
chimneys and the dispersal of gases is discussed. A
large part of the paper is devoted to special waste
problems, including: commercial waste; solid waste
of high calorific value; chemical waste; general
factory waste; wood waste, and; solvent effluent vapors.
Article/Source Title: "Pollution of Air" by E.G.
Halliday. Habitat RSA
Date/Place of Publication: March 1972,
Johannesburg
Pages: 52-53 Language: English/Afrikaan
Source Repository: EPA
Code
Control
Ho. SO-259
The major air pollutant in the RSA is smoke from
industries due to lack of low volatile fuels and ther-
mal atmospheric stagnation in the northern parts of
the republic.
The Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Act gives
local authorities power over industrial smoke emissions.
Section 20 sets up smoke control zones and Part II puts
control of industrial pollution in the hands of the
Chief Air Pollution Control Officer of the State Depart-
ment of Health.
Control of automobile exhausts in the RSA is not
yet considered necessary.
See WATER (South Afr-ica) — Control No. SO-274
Code
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AIR
USSR Article/Source Title: Meteorologicheskiye Code
aspekty zagryazneniya atmosfery (Meteorological
Aspects of Atmospheric Pollution). Editor: Control
M.E. Berlyand No. SO-260
Date/Place of Publication: 1971, Leningrad
Pages: 371 Language: Russian
Soi&ce Repository: LOG
The book is a collection of the articles pre-
sented at the International Symposium in Leningrad,
July 196S. It contains 39 contributions on various
aspects of meteorology and air pollution, such as
characteristics of pollution. A large body of arti-
cles deal with concentration, dispersion and diffu-
sion of pollutants and polluted air; many deal with
pollution in the context of industry and power plants;
and others discuss specific types of pollution, such
as photochemicals, heavy metals, and smoke. At least
one article is highly technical: on surface roughness
and air flow.
USSR Article/Source Title: "Atmospheric Diffusion and Code
Air Pollution." Trudy ordena trudovogo krasnogo
znameni glavnoy geofizicheskoy observatorii im. Control
A. I. Voyeykova (Studies of the Red Banner A.I. Ho. SO-261
Voyeykov Main Geophysical Observatory), vyp 254.
Date /Place of Piiblication: 1971, Leningrad
Pages: 204 Lcaiguage: Russian
Source Repository-' LOG
The book is a collection of articles dealing
with various aspects of air pollution. Some articles
discuss distribution and dispersion of exhausts from
general industrial factories, synthetic fiber plants,
and elevated exhaust sources. There are some studies
of air movement in the lower atmosphere, including in-
versions, and on calculation of atmospheric turbidity.
Others treat statistics of pollution content, princi-
pally in city air, and the problem of choosing the
number, location, and frequency of air pollution ob-
servations. Still other articles concern measurement
of the chemical composition of the atmosphere, par-
ticularly halogen compounds, hydrogen fluoride, sul-
furous gases, and carbon monoxide, using instruments
such as a coulombometer and an automatic gas analyzer.
USSR See PESTICIDES (USSR) -- Control No. SO-267 and Code
WATER (USSR) — Control No. SO-278
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AIR
West
Germany
Vest
Germany
Yugoslavia
Article/Source Title: "On the Way to Manufacture
without Environmental Pollution" by D. Behrens.
Chemische Industrie (Chemical Industry)
Date/Place of Publication: May 1972, Frankfurt
Pages: 283-287 Language: German
Source Repository: LOG
Code
Control
Ho. SO-262
Hie article holds that the problem industry has
in connection with pollution is to hold it to ac-
ceptable levels, rather than to restore environmental
conditions to pre-industrial levels. For this reason
the author calls for extensive research into environ-
mental influences and their effects. Also advanced
is the proposition that air and water pollution regu-
lations should be coordinated on an international
basis. Charts of the amounts of various pollutants
in the air and water contributed by different indus-
tries, such as energy (including even thermal pollu-
tion) and transport, are given.
Article/Source Title: "Toward a Design for a Bill Cocle_
on Emissions." Chemische Industrie (Chemical
Industry)
Date/Place of Publication: May 1972, Frankfurt
Pages: 271-272 Language: German
Source Repository: LOG
During the course of its environmental protec-
tion program, the German government has prepared a
draft of a bill for protection against air, noise,
vibration, and similar pollution phenomena. The
article discusses the factors which must be included
in such considerations and their affect on industry
and transportation in particular. The main problem
is the establishing of standards for emissions and
providing for their enforcement.
Control
I'lo. SO-263
Coae
/Article/Source Title: "Danger Comes From The
Air" by A. Misic. Politika (Politics)
Date/Place of Publication:July 9, 1972, Belgrade Control
Page: 9 Language: Serbo-Croatian lip. SO-264
Source depository: EPA
As an argument for a general lav/ concerning air
pollution, several health problems are presented
which seem to stem from contaminated air: bronchial
asthma, arteriosclerosis, lung cancer, and decline
in body weight. Studies were done in several cities
of Serbia on the incidence of asthma and lung cancer,
and the results are given. There are also measure-
ments given of air pollution in a number of cities.
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AIR
Yugoslavia See VATLR (Yugoslavia) — Control No. SO-285
N 0 I S E
Code
Brazil
South
Africa
USSR
Vest
Germany
Code_
Code
See AJ.E (Brazil) — Control No. SO-254
Article/Source Title: "The Effect of Noise and
the Rate of Living on Man" by G.II. Winter-Moore.
Habitat RSA
Date/Place of Publication: March 1972,
Johannesburg
Pages: 100-101 Language: English/Afrikaan
Sauxce Repository: EPA
The article discusses results of the activities
of the Johannesburg City Council's Noise Abatement
Bureau. There is a file of complaints made about
noise which corroborates the notion that noise has
a deleterious effect on the human organism. Sound
level analyses were also made.
Article/Source Title: Borba s shumom v gorodakh Code_
(Fighting Noise in Cities) by I.L. Karagodina
et al.
Date/Place of Publication: 1972, Moscow
Pages: 155 Language: Russian
Source Repository: LOG
Noise in cities is approached as a health
problem with discussions of the effects of transport
and habitation noise on the human organism (including
effects on hearing, reflexes, and heart and arteries).
Methods for the study of such problems are advanced.
Norms for noise levels are established, consider-
ing the acoustic character of noises in question, and
results of studies on noise distribution in the pres-
ence of barriers are given. A special section is de-
voted to means of protection against airplane noise
and methods of decreasing that noise as well as to
methods of isolating habitation noise such as that
from construction.
Methodology of noise measurement is presented
along with numerous diagrams and graphs of the results
of the studies.
Control
Ho. SO-265
Control
No. SO-266
See AIR (West Germany) — Control No. SO-263
Code
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PESTICIDES
South
Africa
USSR
See GENERAL (South Africa) — Control No. SO-286 Code_
Article/Source Title: Sanitarnaya okhrana Code
vneshney sredy ot zagryazneniya pestitsidami
(Sanitary Protection of the Environment fron
Pesticides) by S. Ya. Nayshteyn and G.V.
Merenyuk
Date/P'lace of Publication: 1971, Kishinev
Pages: 171 Lariguage: Russian
Source Repository: EPA
The book is a comprehensive discussion of pesti-
cide pollutants in air, water, and soil with remarks
on their physico-chemical characteristics (including
stability), and on the cycling of pesticides in trace
quantities through the environment. There are sec-
tions devoted to the influences of pesticides on water
quality, biochemical processes in the soil, and on
self-purifying capabilities of soil and water; the
general toxicity of pesticides (their effects on sexual
and generative functions); and protective and control
measures for pesticides in the soil and water. There
is also a 20-page bibliography.
Control
No. SO-267
Jugoslavia See WATER (Yugoslavia) — Control No. SO-285
Code
RADIATION
Japan
Article/Source Title: "Present and Future of Code _
Nuclear Power Generation" by Yukinobu Takaoka and
Kosei linuma. CEER : Chemical Economy and Control
Engineering Review 77o. SO -268
Date/Place of Publication: March 1971, Tokyo
Pages: 9-15, 28-29 Language: English
Source Repository •*__J^OC _______ __
In discussing Japan's Long-Range Program for
Development and Utilization of Atomic Energy, formu-
lated in 1967, the authors, in outlining recent
problems, point out that Japan will produce 1500 tons
of spent fuel in 1985, as a result of nuclear power
generation. Japan's first reprocessing plant for spent
fuel, with a capacity of 210 tons per year, is scheduled
to go on-stream in 1973.
Present regulations require that radioactive waste
produced in reprocessing be kept in custody, but coping
with the future increase of spent fuel for reprocessing
will pose a serious problem. The Atomic Energy Commis-
sion is now studying the matter. Ocean disposal can
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RADIATION
Japan (Control No. SO -268) continued:
only be done under appropriate international coopera-
tion. Because of Japan's large population and small
land mass, radioactive waste must be minimized.
Therefore, researcii and development work should be
conducted on a dry system of reprocessing and measures
taken to reduce gaseous waste.
The Japanese people have an intense fear of
radioactivity, therefore, it is recognized that to en-
sure greater freedom of choice in selecting nuclear
power generation sites, new construction techniques
must be studied while improving safety facilities.
SOLID WASTE
Brazil See. AIR (Brazil) — Control No. SO-254 Code
WATER
Brazil See AI2 (Brazil) — Control No. SO-254 Code
See WA?r~? (l^^crlands) — Control No. SO-270 Code
Japan Article /Source Title: "Closed System for Sea- Code _
Water Pollution Control." CEER: Chemical
Economy and^ Engineering Rev Jew Control
Date/Place of Publication: April 1972, Tokyo No. SO- 269
Page: 63 Language: English
Source^ Repository: LOG _____
The Yokohama Port Authority has placed an order
with Mitsubishi Kakoki for a continuous treating unit
for waste oil discharged from vessels. The unit,
representing a closed system, will be capable of re-
covering oil from the oily waste, burning the sludge,
removing sulfur fron the flue gas generated by the
combustion of the gas, and collecting dust on a con-
tinuous basis.
In June 1971, a Japanese law to prevent sea-
water pollution went into effect. Beginning in June
1972, all ocean-going vessels will be prohibited from
throwing oily wastewater into the ocean.
Mitsubishi Kakoki 's new unit (MKK process) is
outlined, including graphically.
Japan See All? (Japan) — Control No. SO-255 Code _
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Netherlands
Poland
Article/Source Title: "Research: Cost of Pollu- Code
tion." Enterprise (Venture)
Date/Place of Publication: September 15, 1972,
Paris, France
Page: 55 Language: French
Source Repository: EPA
By 1976, the DSM, a large Netherlands chemical
firm, will have spent 50-100 million florins to
systematically purify its effluents from the Limburg
works. December 1970 legislation stipulated that not
another gram of noxious substances can be added to the
Meuse. DSM, therefore, must reduce the "biological de-
mand for oxygen" of its effluent and decrease the per-
centage of hydrogen (in nitric, ammoniac and ureal form).
Figures are given for the volume of industrial waste.
DSM isn't the only spectacular case; industrial
Development all along the Rhine-Meuse is blocked because
of industrial pollution. The German BASF hopes to have
equipment in operation by 1975 to eliminate hydrogen
from its wastes. Production of the Alsatian Potash Mines
(France) is limited due to the amount of salt ejected
into the Rhine by its operation.
Article/Source Title: "On Adequate Principles in Code_
Preservation of Lakes" by P. Olszewski.
Gospodarka Wodna (Water Economy)
Date/Place of Publication: June 1972, Warsaw
Pages: 213-221 Language: Polish
Source Repositori]: LOG
The article points out that processes and
phenomena that occur in lakes are quite different from
those in running water. After a discussion of the
trophogenic and tropholytic layers, the effects of
waste products on such standing waters are considered.
A distinction is made betv;een various types of lakes
as to the degree of purification which is needed or
feasible; most lakes should be preserved completely
with all means possible, but others, beyond a certain
point of pollution, can only be guarded against an
excessive rate of degradation.
Control
No. SO-270
CentreI
Uo. SO-271
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K A T E R
Poland. ^ticle/Co:trce Title: "Intensification of Waste Code
Processing at Some Existing Low-Performance
Stations" by II. Ilanczak. Gospodarka Wodna Control
(V.'atcr Economy) No. SO-272
Date/Place of Publication: May 1972, Warsaw
Pages: 183-1SG Language: Polish
Source repository: LOG
The paper discusses adapting mechanical waste-
processing stations to biological methods. Examples
are given of plants which have been modernized to
handle household, district, industrial and municipal
wastes. Major attention is paid to descriptions (and
diagrams) of such devices as the Bernhardt purifier
(57% effective), the Scharfe sedimentation tank,
Imhoff sedimentation tanks of various sizes, Meyeronat
deflectors (80% effective) and others. The biological
adaptation of the devices is explained.
South ' Article/Source Title: "Pollution of Water" by Code
Africa R. J. Laburn. Habitat RSA
Date/Place of Publication: March 1972, Control
Johannesburg No. SO-275
Pages: 38-49 Lajiguage: English/Afrikaan
Soitrce Repository: EPA
The author considers water pollution in light
of natural water quality. He discusses problems en-
countered in the Vaal and Witwatersrand river areas,
with a proposal to separate types of polluted water by
grades for specific reuse by industry and agriculture.
One major point is the mineralized water pumped from
mines which could be put to non-potable use from storage
in "pans" or man-made lakes which could also be used for
recreation. Such separation implies as well at least a
dual system of water supply by grade.
Particular attention is paid to the Rand Water Board
which has been trying to control pollution since 1914.
The 1956 Water Act sets standards for effluents, and the
Department of Water Affairs controls quality in rivers.
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WATER
South Article/Source Title: "The Utilization and Exploi- Code
Africa tation of Mineral Resources by Man" by A.W.S.
Schumann. Habitat RSA Control
Date/Place of Publication: March 1972, No. SO-274
Johannesburg
Pages: 69-81 Language: English/Afrikaan
Source Repository: EPA
In the course of discussing the notion of con-
servation of mineral resources (mainly metals) and
aspects of their utilization, the author comments on
the pollution factors involved. After addressing the
question of the cost of controlling pollution by
metals industries (emissions and effluents), he turns
to what the South African mining industry has been
doing, such as stabilization of mine dumps and slimes
dams.
USSR Article/Source Title: Ochistka i ispolzovaniye Code
stochnykh vod na predpriyatiyakh chernoy metal-
lurgii (Purification and Use of Waste Water in Control
Ferrous Metallurgy) by A.F. Shabalin No. SO-275
Date/Place of Publication: 1968, Moscow
Pages: 505 Language: Russian
Source Repository: EPA
After general discussions on the role of water
in ferrous metallurgy, the composition of wastewater
from different types of plants, different types of puri-
fication mechanisms, and the uses of wastewater in fac-
tories, the author turns to special interests. More de-
tailed studies are offered on the wastewater from plants
for acid treatment of metals, coal-enriching and coke
plants, and ore-enriching plants. Subsequent sections deal
with recycling a plant's water supply, the actual use of
purification devices, conditions for releasing wastewater,
and the economics of construction for purifying purposes.
USSR Article/Source Title: Materialy nauchno-tekhni- Code
cheskoy konferentsii "Progressivnyye metody
ochistki prirodnykh i stochnykh vod" (Materials Control
of the Conference "Progressive Methods of Puri- No. SO-276
fying Natural and Waste Water"). Sb. No. 2
Date/Place of Publication: September 1971, Moscow
Pages: 103 Language: Russian
Source Repository: EPA
This volume of the materials is entitled
"Ochistka stochnykh vod" (Purification of wastewaters).
It contains 44 contributions by various researchers
dealing with wastewaters from many sources (normal
sewage, oil-refining and petrochemical industry, dying
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WATER
USS3 (Control No. SO-276) continued:
and finishing plants, yeast production, foundries,
fiberglass, synthetics, leather, wool, mining, fer-
rous metallurgy, light industry, and others). Spe-
cific contaminants dealt with are sulfur compounds,
acids, nitrides, alcohols, surface-active substances,
organic and mineral mixtures, and others. Processes
discussed include neutralization, filtration, flota-
tion, electrocoagulation, oxygenation, aeration, those
of a biochemical, electrochemical, and magnetic
nature, as well as use of centrifuges and thermal
drying.
VSS3 Article/Source Title: Trudy Instituta VODGEO Code
(Works of the VODGEO Institute), No. 28
Date/Place of Publication: 1970, Moscow Control
Pages: 85 Language: Russian No. SO-277
Source Eepository: EPA
The VODGEO (Vsesoyuznyy nauchno-issledovatelskiy
institut vodosnabzheniya, kanalizatsii, gidrotekhni-
chcskikh sooruzheniy i inzhenernoy gidrogeologii --
All Union Scientific Research Institute of Water-
Supply, Channelization, Hydrotechnical Installations,
and Engineering Hydro-Geology) has published here 19
articles under the title "Purification of Industrial
Waste Water." For the most part, the articles deal
with light industries and those connected with petro-
chemistry. The main pollutants discussed are
petroleum-related. Processes touched on include aera-
tion, filters and vacuum filters, catalysis with
molecular oxygen, ozonization, and reagents. Biochemi-
cal processes are mentioned and one article considers
the self-purification phenomenon.
USSR Article/Source Title: "What the USSR, Absent from Code
Stockholm, is Doing to Combat Contamination of
Nature" by D. Radovic. Borba (Battle) Control
Date/Place of Publication: June 15, 1972, Belgrade No. SO-278
Page: 3 Language: Serbo-Croatian
Source Repository: EPA
The main problems in the USSR are industrial pol-
lution of rivers and general contamination of cities.
In the past years, billions of rubles have been spent
for purification devices on the Volga, Ural, and Kama
rivers. (The 670 purification complexes in the basins
can handle 550 million m3/day.) All effluents into
these rivers will be completely purified, including
those from Kama auto plant for which such equipment
is included in the construction.
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WATER
USSR (Control No. SO-278) continued:
The problem of air pollution in Moscow will be
greatly solved by the conversion to gas heat. In
Leningrad, the particular problem is pollution of the
rivers and canals, but effluent control has that
largely checked.
USSR Article/Source Title: Voda i stochnyye vody v Code
pishchevoy promyshlennosti (Water and Waste
Water in the Food Industry), coll. authorship Control
(translated from Polish) No. 279
Date/Place of Publication: 1972, Moscow
Pages: 377 Language: Russian
Source Repository: EPA
The book begins with a few remarks on water
quality in the food industry in general and then de-
votes some space to the chemistry of wastewaters
from that industry, covering a large list of con-
taminants. There is discussion of devices for measur-
ing waste waters and, in particular, of devices for
purification. These latter include mechanical means,
such as grates, sieves, sedimentation tanks, etc.;
chemical means, such as coagulation, chlorification,
and aeration; and various biological processes.
The major emphasis is on the character, quantity,
and purification of wastewaters in the individual
branches of the food industry: sugar, yeast, alcohol,
brewing, meats, fowl, fish, milk, fruits and vegetables,
potatoes, and oils and fats. The efficacy of the dif-
ferent means is discussed and there are remarks on con-
trol factors for the purification stations.
The book contains 94 tables of experimental re-
sults and 115 illustrations of devices and systems.
USSR See PESTICIDES (USSR) — (Control No. SO-267) Code
USSR Article/Source Title: "More Spent on Environmental Code
Protection." Chemische Industrie (Chemical
Industry) Control
Date/Place of Publication: May 1972, Frankfurt No. SO-280
Pages: 272-275 Language: German
Source Repository: LOG
The article discusses amounts spent by the German
chemical industry on the abatement of environmental
pollution in the period 1960-1969. Water pollution
claims the major part of capital investment and operating
costs. Extensive tables of chemical industrial outlays for
various aspects of pollution control for the period 1960-74
and a breakdown according to the different types of pollu-
tion are presented.
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West
Germany
Vest
Germany
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
WATER
Article/Source Title: "Physico-Chemical Methods Code_
of Effluent Treatment." Chemische Industrie
(Chemical Industry)
Date/Place of Publication: May 1972, Frankfurt
Pages: 277-279 Language: German
Source depository: LOG
This article is mainly concerned \\dth the re-
moval of solids and dissolved organic substances from
effluents through mechanical and biological treatment
techniques. Pollutants considered are metals (which
can be precipitated as sulfides or hydroxides), phos-
phorous and nitrogen compounds (which can be precipi-
tated as ammonia salts), and dyes (for which floccula-
tion-adsorption is proposed). Other processes dis-
cussed arc alkalization, adsorption, reverse osmosis,
and oxidation.
Control
No. SO-281
See AIR (West Germany) —
WATER (Netherlands) —
Control No. SO-262 and
Control No. SO-270
Code
Code
Control
No. SO-282
1,2/Source Title: Series on the Symposium for
the Preservation of the Tara River and Its
Canyon by B. Pusonjic. Politika (Politics)
Date/Plo.ce of Publication: 13,18,22 September and
29 July 1972, Belgrade
Pages: 9,7,9,7 Language: Serbo-Croatian
Source Repository: EPA
The series of articles deals with the Symposium
for the Preservation of the Tara River and Its Canyon,
held 15-16 September 1972 in Zabljak. Attending were
representatives of all interested groups, including
government, business, conservationists, etc. The Tara
River is of particular importance since it is recognized
as the most typical canyon in the world, after that of
the Colorado River. The principle problems involved
were plans for construction of hydroelectric installa-
tions on the swift stream and the dumping of \vastes from
the ilojkovac mine. Results of the symposium were a con-
certed intention to preserve the river and the establish-
ment of a contribution fund for the effort.
Code
Article/Source Title: "Rivers and Lakes are at
Once Everyone's and No One's." Politika
, (politics)
Date/Place of Publication: July 3, 1972, Belgrade
Page: 21 Language: Serbo-Croatian
Source Repository: EPA
The article discusses, in general, the draft of
a new water law prepared by the Jaroslav Cerni Institute
in Belgrade for the Socialist Republic of Serbia. It
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No. SO-283
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Yugoslavia (Control No. SO-283) continued:
concerns the position and status of water economy
in the general system, organization and regulation,
constructions, and other aspects of the problem of
water protection. It also proposes a Secretariat of
Water Economy which would apply the laws and standards.
Yugoslavia
Hugoslavia
Article/Source Title: "Dead Fish in the 'Resort Code
Zone"1 by R. Kovacevic. Politika (Politics)
Date/Place of Publication: June 30, 1972, Belgrade Control
Page: 9 Language: Serbo-Croatian No. SO-284
Source Repository: EPA
Yugoslavia is finding that the problem of sea
pollution by dumps of oil and fuel oil from tankers
on runs up the Adriatic is reaching major proportions.
This is complicated by industrial wastes, especially
from the Split area.
The city of Kopar has decided to buy a 500-ton
boat which will collect and purify the dumped oil.
The Rijeka and Dakar ports have also built equipment
for gathering the pollutants. However, the major
ports of Split, Ploce, and Bar have done nothing.
Yugoslavia has signed an international convention
for protection of the sea from oil pollution, but it
has not yet been ratified. The convention would call
for ports to have specific areas for boats to jettison
contaminants where they could be dealt with properly.
Code
Control
Ho. SO-285
Article/Source Title: (Series), "The Crisis in
Human Environment'1 by V. Petrovic. Politika
(Politics)
Date/Place of Publication: 25, 26, 27 June 1972,
Belgrade
Pages: 7, 5, 9 Language: Serbo-Croatian
Source Repository: EJ^A_
The series of articles deals with three phases
of the environmental crisis in Yugoslavia: water, air,
and pollution/destruction of the soil by chemicals and
pesticides. In each installment various details of the
crisis arc discussed. In the first it is stated that
the Adriatic is in danger of dying within 25 years and
that there is no longer any life in the Mura, Sava,
Savinja, Bosna, Borska Reka, Resava, and part of the
Lima Rivers. In the second, besides discussing the ef-
fect of the internal combustion engine on the air, it
is pointed out that: lead in exhausts at Kosovo Mitrovica
has apparently caused sterility in women, total dearth of
wild birds, etc.; S02 has killed 22,000 ha of forest near
Bor and caused 600 ha of wheat near Sapacnot to bear; and
the CO situation in Belgrade, Zenica, Split, and Zagreb
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is critical. The third has to do with increased produc-
tion of chemicals and pesticides which have caused the denuda-
tion of 1,656,000 ha and the degradation of 1,700,000 ha.
This latter leads to drastically increased erosion which
changes ground water levels and consequently endangers
even more forest areas.
South
Africa
West
Germany
GENERAL
Article/Source Title: "Pollution by Agriculture" Code
by E.D. Adler. Habitat RSA
Date/Place of Publication: March 1972,
Johannesburg _
Pages: 106-118 Language: English/Afrikaan ~~
Source Repository: EPA
The article first presents statistics on the
agricultural growth of South Africa and then goes into
the history of reports on land status (principally
erosion). The chemical aspcts of soil pollution are
discussed at length: raised or lowered PH, increased
sodium and salt content, and depletion of vital
minerals. Yet another type of pollution is that of
native vegetation caused by importation of plants and
spread of undesirable and poisonous plants (bush en-
croachment) . Research done on bush encroachment is
given as well as remarks on various poisonous plants.
There are also some details on the use of the pesti-
cides DDT and BUG.
Article/Source Title: "Practical Consequences of Code_
the Waste Disposal Bill for the Chemical In-
dustry." Chemische Industrie (Chemical In-
dustry)
Date/Place of Publication: July 1972, Frankfurt
Pages: 436-438 Language: German
Source Repository: LOG
The article discusses questions inherent in
the new German Waste Disposal Bill of 7 June 1972.
These include what wastes must be reported, what
kind of proof of disposal can be demanded, who has
to dispose of the wastes, how they are to be disposed
of, and where the wastes can be taken.
Control
No. SO-286
Control
IJo. SO-287
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