I went to graduate school (econ) at the U of Utah between 1990 and 1994.
I remembered the pronunciation but not the spelling.
The stats came from a report I saw in 1993 or 1994, it gave tonnage
figures for each state, along with the corporate culprits. It may have
been from the EPA, but I cannot remember. Around that time I was also
doing a wage survey for the State of Utah, so my access to the report
may have come from there. Perhaps someone working on environmental
issues would be able to help on this. I have never forgotten those
numbers though. Of course, I also remember every phone number I have had
since I was literally six years old. The cognitive clutter of life.
The GSL has been receding over the last decade. In general, it's not a
place many Utahns find appealing. It is the region's clogged bathtub. So
along with its exceedingly high salt content (17% or some such figure),
which gives it an oppressive smell, it is the final resting place for
any industrial and sewage waste that gets past the water treatment
systems.
Jeff
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From: john gulick
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: query: bio & chem weapons
Date: Thursday, February 12, 1998 10:55AM
At 03:43 PM 2/12/98 -0500, Jeff Fellows wrote:
>The Tooella incinerator is 40 miles west of Salt
>Lake City. Just west of the city is a magnesium plant that puts out
more
>tons of particulate material each year than all the industries in
>California (130 million tons to 99 million tons).
It's "Tooele" (but pronounced too-ELL-uh). Where did you get those stats
on that magnesium plant? Hard to believe. About ten years ago I remember
that SLC was on the verge of being swamped by a rising Great Salt Lake.
That magnesium plant is within a stone's throw of the lake's shoreline,
with a huge pile of slag and tailings beside it. Also hard for me to
believe that the GSL isn't contaminated by that pile.
John Gulick
