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population equivalent of roughly 8,400,000," 



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The population of the State of Washington 

 is 2,853,214. The above figures or data have had very 

 little publicity. It is to be noted that this does not 

 include other pulp mills such as sul fate or Kraft type 

 mills and other industries around the State polluting 

 our public waterways. For example, the Kraft mill at the 

 mouth of the Puyallup River, pollutes equivalent to the 

 untreated sewage of 300,000 people. 



Great stress is being placed on domestic 

 type pollution control with consequent large scale pro- 

 grams going on into the tens of millions of dollars, but 

 it is ironic that very little or nothing is being done 

 to eradicate industrial wastes of all types, such as pulp 

 mill wastes, and the pollution from pesticides and 

 detergents, also produced by industry. 



Secretary of Interior Udall's words are 

 very timely when he stated the following: "...and the 

 truth of the matter is, nothing has been done - very little 

 has been done at the local level, usually because some of 

 the people that pollute— industries— are very powerful at 

 the local level and have a great deal to say about local 

 legislation, and the same thing, at times, at the state 



level." (Page 13, CBS Reports, "The Water Famine", CBS 



