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Photo by Ron Roser Workman settles down in hole formerly filled by ground under old Art Dept. building. Temporary structures across from Milton Ben-nion Ben-nion Hall have been cleared for contraction of women's facilities, While the Art Dept. occupies buildings aross Hempstead Road from the Annex. Polluted S.LC. Atmosphere Menaces Valley Residents iced every couple of months. Another solution to the exhaust problem might be speeding up the flow of traffic. "While they're accelerating, ac-celerating, cars burn much more fuel than when they cruising." More one-way streets should be designated for this speed-up . Ride With A Friend "And we might even start think-about think-about riding with other people," Treshow suggests. "When half the cars stay home, pollution is cut in half too." fortunately, on the garbage-rich, parkpoor East side, "People just can't see having a garbage dump in their backyards." Industry Chokes Another cause of pollution is in-dutsrial in-dutsrial waste. Salt Lake isn't nearly near-ly as dirty from plant exhaust now as it "was in the 1940's before Coal ' burning was reduced. The Salt Lake Cement Company, Treshow coments, "is one of the cleanest plants in the nation, as is Interstate Brick." Still, industrial pollution could probably be further checked. The third, and greatest, pollution-producer pollution-producer is automobile exhaust. Treshow says "Detroit's 1968 models are efficient enough really real-ly fairly clean. But we don't all have '68 cars, or even '67 ones." After-burners Cut Smog Older cars should be fitted with "after-burners" cutting exhaust impurities im-purities by half. They would cost about $40 a year to maintain, though, and would need to be serv- By GRETTA CALDER Chronicle Staff Writer White mice running a treadmill in filtered air go twice as fast as mice breathing Salt Lake air. Plant leaves are burned, bleached, and dwarfed by valley pollution. Eye irritation ir-ritation and even emphysema are abetted by this same air impurity. " Dr. Michael Treshow, associate profesor of botany and director of the University's Air Pollution Training Train-ing Program, is alarmed about Salt Lake pollution. He will discuss "To Breathe or Not To Breathe: Will Man Survive?" Friday at 2:45 in . the Sugar Houe Park Garden Center. Cen-ter. This symposium is sponsored by the Utah Associate Garden Clubs, Inc. Anti-Smot Publicity "Right now we're where Los Angeles An-geles was ten years ago," Treshow asserts. "That was when they were getting all the anti-smog publicity." "Anytime you're burning anything any-thing he explains, "you're sending tons of waste matter into the sky." Under certain weather conditions, this refuse-laden air doesn't rise, but hangs, grimy and smothering, over the valley. It is Salt Lake smog. Breath Refuse? Breathing smog, the air-plus-waste compound, is even more harmful to Utahns than would be just breathing refuse particles. "The compound is sort of exotic-sound- ing-peroxycetylnitrate. It's is also called PAN, for short." PAN and ozone, are the prime Salt Lake offenders. of-fenders. Air pollution has a number of causes. One is refuse incineration. 'Everyone should definitely quit burning garbage in his back yard, but, of course, we'd have to stop the garbage men from just hauling waste out to Magna to burn." One solution might be the "cut and fill" technique. Huge pits, the size of city blocks, would be dug, filled throughout a span of seven years, and bulldozed over. Parks could then be planted on top. Un- |
