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WILLIAM J. DITTRICH 

 situations like this." 



At the risk of belaboring the point, 

 calling attention to Exhibits 18 and 19, they relate to 

 the incident just described. 



"Taken together, they provide the best 

 evidence we have in our files for the kinds of ills our 

 Nation is suffering in the water pollution field. These 

 problems, we can see, do not just happen in other areas 

 of the Nation. They happen in the State of Washington-- 

 even, of all things, in Whatcom County. We should like 

 to illustrate them by comparing what is happening in our 

 area with what others have said about the problem. 



"Take first the statement by Carr in 

 Reference 5 : 



"'Even the U. S. Public Health Service got 

 itself involved in a scandal when it was revealed that 

 one of its officials had promised the Massachusetts 

 authorities that Federal enforcement would not be initiated. 

 In 1963, Governor Endicott Peabody requested Federal help, 

 but the Public Health Service was refused data by the 

 Massachusetts Department of Public Health, which vsould 

 not name any polluters. (We assume that this might be 

 true both of industrial and governmental polluters-- 

 especially governmental. This is especially interesting 



