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Show Chamber of Commerce members consider information on air pollution problems operational areas nearly 99 percent free of impurities. It cost over $3000 annually to keep it in operation, Mr. Bushnell said. An independent study of air pollution problem in Utah revealed that about one-third of the pollution results re-sults from industrial plants; one-third, automobiles; and one-third from other sources sour-ces including garbage burning. burn-ing. However, our state does not have as great a pollution problem as compared com-pared with some eastern cities cit-ies and many of those on the west coast, Science and research are finding numerous ways and means to control air pollution pol-lution and great strides have been made in the last ten years. As less expensive methods of installation and operation are developed more industrial plants and munni- cipalities will participate in the control program, he believes. be-lieves. Of the over 350 employees employ-ees at the Pipe Plant more are from Sprlngville and south than are from Provo and north, he said. The plant has been in operation for forty-one years and gets its pig iron now from Geneva Ge-neva Steel and prior to its closing, Ironton plant. Currently the company Some of the country's most sophisticated and effective ef-fective equipment for control con-trol of air pollution is now in operation at the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe Company, Com-pany, it was reported by J. Merrill Bushnell, vice president presi-dent and manager of the, Ironton plant, as he spoke to members of the Spring-ville Spring-ville Chamber of Commerce at their April breakfast meeting Wednesday. This equipment installed late last year at the cost of over $600,000 is of the wet scrubber type which utlizes several wet sprays and filters fil-ters and renders the output from the cupolas and other distributes cast iron pressure pres-sure pipe to the 13 western states plus Alaska and Hawaii. Ha-waii. It also is turning out ductile iron pipe. This has many of the properties of steel as well as the erosion resistance of cast iron. It possesses a high tensile strength which makes it especially es-pecially suitable for large diameter pipe which the company is now producing on an increased scale. J. Melvin Duke, Chamber program chairman, introduced introdu-ced the speaker. W. W. Clyde, Jack Allen, Bruce Braithwaite reviewed the Art Association's current membership drive. |