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 CHARLES S. YENTSCH 

 Island Sound, massive growths of phytoplankton result, 

 these are sort of weeds in nature, and literally they 

 lined up choking the oysters. 



There is nothing so stubborn as a Yankee 

 oysterman and nothing more unmovable than a Long Island duck 

 farmer, and yet when these fellows were presented with the 

 evidence they sat down and with the help of the Array Corps 

 of Engineers solved the problems. 



I can't see why the two groups involved here 

 can't do something of the same order. The Federal and 

 State agencies considering water pollution in this area 

 are recognized throughout the country as some of the best. 

 Certainly the mill people are reasonable and their 

 credibility has been shown by the fact that they continue 

 to support research and development. In this country the 

 main problem in pollution, as I see it, is the problem of 

 eutrophication. The eventual eutrophication of water 

 bodies leads to an anerobic condition, the production of 

 hydrogen sulphide, and the loss of useful biological 

 productivity. The introduction of sulfite waste liquor, 

 I think, is only one small segment of this problem. The 

 problems are very, very diverse, there are many of them, 

 and the time to solve these problems is awfully short. 



I would like to close by just saying good 



