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R. H. BAILEY 

 Sulfite liquor contains more than enough heat units to 

 evaporate itself. The savings were reported to be 

 sufficient to pay for the installation over a 15-year 

 period. 



The Weyerhaeuser process should have solved 

 the pulp mill pollution problem, but no other mills adopted 

 the process in the State of Washington. Oddly enough, 

 the Bellingham Pulp Mill also operates the Ketchikan, 

 Alaska, pulp mill, which uses the Weyerhaeuser process to 

 eliminate over 80 percent of its pollution in that 

 fisheries area. Federal regulations simply required that 

 all Alaska pulp mills eliminate 80 percent of their liquor 

 before they could operate at Ketchikan and Sitka. 



The Washington Pollution Control Law was 

 passed in 1945. The Pollution Commission was to require 

 that: 



"All known, available and reasonable methods 



be used by industry and others to prevent and control 

 pollution of the waters of the State of Washington." 



Attempts for solving the industrial pollu- 

 tion problem have failed miserably, largely due to the 

 inability of the Pollution Commission to force the pulp 

 mills to adopt modern methods. Great oyster growing areas 



of North Puget Sound have all but disappeared. Clam areas 



