TACOMA SPORTSMEN'S CLUB 



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Olyrapia, Washington. 



"The pulp mills research program was 

 established at the University of Washington in January, 

 1944. . .Primary emphasis was to be placed on studies of 

 waste materials." 



"Present support of this program comes from 

 seventeen members of the pulp and paper industry. To 

 date, the cumulative total expenditures are about 

 $600,000 or only $2,000 per mill per year ." (Emphasis 

 supplied. ) 



"As yet, physical application of this 

 research has not resulted in any major waste abatement 

 in the Puget Sound area." 



Pollution produced by the following mills 

 with their population equivalents as compiled from the 

 transcript takes into consideration only B.O.D. (bio- 

 chemical oxygen demand). It must be remembered also 

 that there are very serious toxic or poisonous effects 

 on marine life from the pulp millfe sul fite waste liquor 

 discharges into our public waterways. 



Anacortes area, Scott Paper Co. - discharges 

 pollution, equivalent to the untreated sewage of about 

 480,000 people. 



Port Angeles area - Fibreboard Paper 

 Products Co. - Discharges pollution, equivalent to the 



