The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, June 17, 1981-Page 11 Illegal dumping charged From APand UPI DETROIT - Two truck drivers for a waste disposal firm were charged yesterday with illegally dumping more than 100 drums of toxic chemicals, some known cancer-causing agents, around the metropolitan area. The dumping forced a half-dozen persons who came in contact with the drums to seek hospital treatment, including two Detroit police officers, but none were seriously hurt. WAYNE COUNTY Chief Assistant Prosecutor Dominick Carnovale identified the suspects as Boris Perry, 26, and his cousin, Darnell Perry, 27, both of Detroit and both employed by John Welsh and Sons, a Detroit waste disposal firm. The Perrys were charged with violating the state's hazardous waste management act in "knowingly transporting and disposing hazardous waste" for dumping six drums on a lot in Detroit, Carnovale said. This incident may be typical of a widespread problem government officials have been grappling with in the upper midwest for some time. UP TO EIGHT million pounds of PCBs were dum- ped in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin during the past 30 years, and no one knows exactly where the poisonous chemicals are today, gover- nment officials say. Efforts to find the chemicals have uncovered PCBs at a playground in this northern Illinois city of 65,000, in the well water of one family, and in sufficient quan- Chemical waste dumping 'ticking time.bomb' tity to create "very high" contamination of a creek that flows into Lake Michigan, the source of drinking water for 10 million people. The random dumping occurred before the gover- nment banned manufacture of PCBs, polychlorinated biphenyls, in 1977 asa suspected cause of cancer, bir- th defects, and other health problems. It was widely used as a lubricant and coolant in machinery and electrical equipment. FEDERAL OFFICIALS have known for years that up to two million pounds of PCBs were dumped by Outboard Marine Corp., which makes boat motors, into Waukegan harbor 25 miles north of Chicago. The company used the chemical to lubricate machines used to make the motors. But only within the last year have federal officials joined local efforts to track down millions of pounds of PCBs that were apparently dumped on land. Officials of the Lake County Health Department fear the chemicals will work their way into ground water, Lake Michigan and the food chain: The dum- ping in the harbor already has been linked to dangerous levels of PCBs in fish. "WE FEEL WE are sitting on a ticking time bomb," Tom Nedved, director of the health depar- tment's environmental health division, said last week. The missing PCBs were first described in a letter from Outboard Marine to the Environmental Protec- tion Agency, dated March 15, 1976, but officials have concentrated on the harbor dumping because it presented a more immediate threat. Outboard Marine attorney Hugh Thomas estimates between 5.9 million and 6.7 million pounds of PCBs were dumped on land. EPA attorney Kay Jacobs puts the figure at eight million pounds. WHILE SOME PCB contamination has been discovered, environmental officials say they don't know the location of all the dumps. Outboard Marine officials say they don't know where the waste haulers took the chemicals because 20 years ago there were no disposal restrictions. William Schulski, a retired waste hauler from Ken- osha, Wis., has named five sites in the Waukegan area and three in Kenosha where his workers dum- ped Outboard Marine's refuse. "We just took it to the city dumps. We never concerned ourselves with what was in the load," he said. "If it was a barrel or a car- dboard box, or even a body, who knew?" _,. Man says r sect made daughter 'become a robot SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - A man whose daughter is suing her parenta for $1 million for allegedly ab- ducting her testified yesterday that he feared his daughter would "become a robot" unless she was removed from a religious sect she had joined. Richard Parsons, a Hellertown, Pa. engineer, described in federal court how the family became increasingly worried about the involvement of their 22-year-old daughter, Debra Lynn Rausch, with The Way Ministry in 1977. He said they eventually sought out "deprogrammers" to get her to change her beliefs. THE WAY IS a fundamentalist group based in Knoxville, Ohio. Parsons, a member of the United Church of Christ, said he was disturbed p at the sect's rejection of the Christian belief in the Trinity and its practice of talking in tongues. 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