Environmental Pollution: Discharge of Raw Human Wastes from Railroad Trains: Hearing Before...91-2, July 28, 19701970 - 139 pages |
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... stations or car servicing areas , where the discharge of human excrement or other polluting material is prohibited ... stations and servicing areas . Furthermore , the railroads often fail to prevent waste discharges even within stations ...
... stations or car servicing areas , where the discharge of human excrement or other polluting material is prohibited ... stations and servicing areas . Furthermore , the railroads often fail to prevent waste discharges even within stations ...
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... station or servicing area unless means are provided to prevent contamination of the area or station . Mr. Chairman , the scientific evidence is not conclusive on the corre- lation mentioned above . Present disposal practices appear to ...
... station or servicing area unless means are provided to prevent contamination of the area or station . Mr. Chairman , the scientific evidence is not conclusive on the corre- lation mentioned above . Present disposal practices appear to ...
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... stations or servicing areas ? Dr. EDWARDS . That is correct . Mr. REUSS . Again , I think the regulation , timid as it is , is a good one . But if the Maxcy report way back in 1946 is right , and if , as you say on page 3 : The evidence ...
... stations or servicing areas ? Dr. EDWARDS . That is correct . Mr. REUSS . Again , I think the regulation , timid as it is , is a good one . But if the Maxcy report way back in 1946 is right , and if , as you say on page 3 : The evidence ...
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... stations Mr. VANDER JAGT . " At outside stations and car servicing areas . " Dr. EDWARDS . I think in general your statement is correct . Mr. VANDER JAGT . So that a train could be going through the heart of Chicago or New York , and ...
... stations Mr. VANDER JAGT . " At outside stations and car servicing areas . " Dr. EDWARDS . I think in general your statement is correct . Mr. VANDER JAGT . So that a train could be going through the heart of Chicago or New York , and ...
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... stations or servicing areas unless there is a means available to prevent contamination . The other part of the regulation provides that there shall be no discharge of excrement while trains are passing over areas designated by the Food ...
... stations or servicing areas unless there is a means available to prevent contamination . The other part of the regulation provides that there shall be no discharge of excrement while trains are passing over areas designated by the Food ...
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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