we Thao teat ‘Smoke e emissions reduced continued from previous page burner is improved too. The PCB official told of the aims of his branch and KFP in their co-operative ef- fort to reduce smoke and ash emissions. “What we've tried to do with these improvements is to have KFP meet the most stringent standards applied in the province,” McLaren said in ‘his Nelson office.’ “If we still have com- plaints from the public we'll have to look at’ what can be done. It would be difficult to make further improvements, We've.come a long way from where we were a few years ago.” A long way indeed. And for no one has the road been longer than for Sigalet and his staff at the Kootenay Forest plant. They have listened to ‘complaints for years, and spent tens of thousands of dollars in attempts to im- prove the situation — often without success. This time, it worked. “We've achieved a 75 per-cent reduction in parti- culate falling on the city from the boilers,” said a proud George Jobb, the KFP boiler- house chief engineer. “We make less pollution’ now than anybody's fire- place. Since the improve- branch for several months. It’ worked extremely well, en- couraging KFP management to move immediately on the: installation of three more on the remaining boilers, All are today complete and working. Outside the boilerhouse, on platforms ralsed above the ground, plastic beakers sit for about a week at a time. Then they . are collected, sealed, and sent to an en-* vironmental consultant who analyses how much waate is drifting back to earth from the KFP burner and boilers. ‘Although. gathered | at the expense of KFP, the data is compiled by the’ pollution contro] branch, which will report in coming months how much the’ tuation has’ im- { proved, . But obviously, they are already’'confident a major change has taken place. PCB officials say they may use the, 7 ‘data against other forestry firms in B.C. who are saying technology does not exiat for them to clean up their own smokey acts, "When you come to the BIG T you'l ‘IE; to: mechanized distance op-: Lake; favenby erator ayatem ito serve cus- customers ‘ to ':/Clearwater;’- pasts eee npr Likel and Horsefly, east) of /Wil- ‘Hams. Lake, at: Bridge' Lake, near 100 ‘Mile le and at ‘mote areas involve the use of digital‘ line” concentrators ‘(small Slectronle switching ment) and Swabey. Hy ae “of \$1,7-million’, this year: willi go towards em- as dloying ‘concentrators in spe- ‘elie locations throughout the will::lesson central interior. ‘The projects Resources coal'mine| at Line, g Cisek ear ; nt re The’ < rs to either aerial or buried cable: pr Denver and at‘Lac “There are ,167,248 tele- ) phones now in service in the Division and Swabey said he < expects an ‘increase of about: 9,300 - Phones by. the end: of this y town In the’ Kootenays, its a population of appro: to- ly, 65; people,’ is ‘located ‘on ecenie North Lake Highway | 31 on’ beautiful Kootenay re, “ boom town for mining,’ Ajns: * worth is best known for the ‘Hot Springs, where, the out- scum, a ailver-rush former splendor, is' 7 Cody: vast network of undergrouid beauty. Cross country, aki trails are within one mile and « WeUselt, 29 ULUES LOW BET agement and ‘is open sevén, ‘days 'a‘.week with. an ni ‘aie pane units ° will’ be: panded to 16, with « lange seminar, ments, there are other places in town that are making more fly ash than us.” Speaking recently in the heat of the building where he works, Jobb pointed to four huge vertical steel tubes that * spin the smoke and exhaust from the boilers around at incredible speed. Here particles are spun out of the exhaust as water is from clothes in a laundromat centrifuge. Beside the collec- tors, tubes begin the. long - descent into the basement, ° bringing collected ash and charcoal back to the boilers they sseaped from only mo- . ments before. Funneled right’ EERIE ANTI-POLLUTION SCENE — High into the flames, the particles gbove four boilers at KFP in Nelson awe don’t get through a second these huge vertical units that spin out ie. 3 most particles that used to fall on the The first “of four ash - city. 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