Environmental Pollution: Discharge of Raw Human Wastes from Railroad Trains: Hearing Before...91-2, July 28, 19701970 - 139 pages |
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... MILES Q. ROMNEY , Associate General Counsel J. P. CARLSON , Minority Counsel WILLIAM H. COPENHAVER , Minority Professional Staff CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES SUBCOMMITTEE HENRY S. REUSS , Wisconsin , Chairman PHINEAS INDRITZ ...
... MILES Q. ROMNEY , Associate General Counsel J. P. CARLSON , Minority Counsel WILLIAM H. COPENHAVER , Minority Professional Staff CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES SUBCOMMITTEE HENRY S. REUSS , Wisconsin , Chairman PHINEAS INDRITZ ...
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... miles without being outside of heavily populated areas , thus exposing people to the health hazards associated with the dis- charge of untreated human waste . Concurrently , with this demo- graphic change , our standards of health and ...
... miles without being outside of heavily populated areas , thus exposing people to the health hazards associated with the dis- charge of untreated human waste . Concurrently , with this demo- graphic change , our standards of health and ...
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... miles of railroad tracks , through railroad sta- tions , over bridges and along reservoirs , railroads are permitted to dump human excrement wholly untreated just as soon as an employee or a passenger relieves himself in the toilet ...
... miles of railroad tracks , through railroad sta- tions , over bridges and along reservoirs , railroads are permitted to dump human excrement wholly untreated just as soon as an employee or a passenger relieves himself in the toilet ...
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... miles of track inside Canada . The technical and economic remedies are quite simple and even compatible with the dreams of avarice that are inspiring railroad conglomerates to range far and wide in their acquisitions and downgrade their ...
... miles of track inside Canada . The technical and economic remedies are quite simple and even compatible with the dreams of avarice that are inspiring railroad conglomerates to range far and wide in their acquisitions and downgrade their ...
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... miles in 15,100 passenger cars ; 95 percent of the cars are equipped with toilets and virtually all are equipped with the so - called gravity feed flushing hoppers . Association of American Railroads , " 1968 Year- book of Railroad ...
... miles in 15,100 passenger cars ; 95 percent of the cars are equipped with toilets and virtually all are equipped with the so - called gravity feed flushing hoppers . Association of American Railroads , " 1968 Year- book of Railroad ...
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American Railroads and/or letter directed Association of American BLANKENSHIP Chairman chemical toilet class I railroads COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT commuter cars Company notified Conservation and Natural contamination conveyances copy of inspection correct condition cost of installing D.C. DEAR discharge of wastes Drug Administration dumping EDWARDS estimate feces flush Food and Drug freight gallons GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS HENRY holding tank Human feces human waste disposal incinerating Incinolet infection inspection report and/or intercity passenger cars January 19 July 28 KOLBYE Litton Industries locomotives and cabooses MANION manufacturers Metroliner million Monogram Industries NADER Natural Resources Subcommittee notified of violation practice Public Health Service railroad cars railroad industry railway sanitation Ralph Nader raw human waste recirculating report and/or letter REUSS right-of-way rights-of-way sanitary servicing areas sewage sleeping cars statement station toilet facilities toilet systems tracks treatment typhoid fever untreated human wastes VANDER JAGT Washington waste disposal systems wastes from railroad
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Page 62 - I believe that in the well-drained, but cool and moist soil under the ties and ballast of a modern railway roadbed baptized day after day and year after year with the albuminous fluids of human excrement, the bacillus typhosus once planted in this natural culture medium, will lie forever, revitalized by new infection, perhaps, but in the meantime facultative enough to meet seasonal and other changes and remain potent.
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Page 3 - It can, therefore, be stated with reasonable assurance that information at present available fails to establish the existence of a public health menace resulting from the method of disposal of fecal wastes employed by railways, This by no means proves the negative — that such a menace does not exist.
Page 41 - I think that one of the reasons for that is that the figures they looked at in the first place were not quite realistic from this standpoint.
Page 18 - Bacteriological Studies of the Effects of Human Wastes From Passenger-Carrying Cars on Railroad Rights-of-Way