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<br />I <br /> <br />permit it to continue no matter how beneficial <br />the use is. On the other hand you may have a <br />waste or an abandonment or some type of action <br />which jeopardizes the appropriation where no <br />pollution at all is involved. They are two <br />problems. Sometimes they get comingled but <br />they are two separate problems and I think the <br />relief from each set must be kept separately in <br />mind. We do agree that this Board should go on <br />record as opposing the inefficient and wasteful <br />use of water for the mere dilution of pollu- <br />tants. <br /> <br />One of the attorneys I wrote to. I would <br />like to just mention this. represents a major <br />manufacturer and he points out that water is not <br />used for just one purpose in industrial use, by <br />and large. Let me read just one paragraph of <br />his letter: <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />'There are some manufacturing operations; <br />such as those involving the fabrication or <br />assembly of materials. which require little. if <br />any. water and consequently have no pollution <br />problems. On the other hand. in mining and many <br />manufacturing operations. particularly those <br />involving chemical processes. substantial quanti- <br />ties of water are used and reused both for the <br />operation of a mine or factory and as a means of <br />treating. diluting or removing waste materials. <br />In a manufacturing plant, for example. water may <br />be used as a means of conveying raw materials <br />into the factory. for the generation of steam <br />and power. as a necessary additive to manufactur- <br />ing processes, as a means of conveying waste <br />materials from the factory and for the treatment <br />or dilution of such waste materials in ponds or <br />lagoons before the effluent therefrom returns to <br />the stream. If an appropriation of water were <br />needed for the operation of a new plant. I would <br />certainly recommend to the owner that it be made <br />for the general purpose of manufacturing. and not <br />for a specified number of second feet for the <br />generation of power; another number of second <br />feet for use as an additive to the manufacturing <br />process. another number of second feet for waste <br />