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t COMMENTARY St OPINION CEMEX fire It should not be necessary to burning plan requires a leap of faith s we move closer to the intended time frame set y CEMEX to test bum tires as a supplemenul fuel in the cement kiln at their Lyons punt, the debate over the wisdom of the proposal is starting to get as hot as a kiln Impugn CEMEX s trustwonht- ncss in order to say mining tires into the coal used as (uel in the plant is a bad idea. Used tirc5 are a problem. they accu- mulate at she rats of one per person pas year, for every man, woman and child in the United States. The thing is, tires do become hazardous waste when they are burned and hazardous waste should be disposed of in haz- ardous waste incinerators, fire (about 1500 degrees Fahr• which ate much more tightly enheit, slightly honer than the CEMEX plant on Ute Highway. regulated -and far more so- aspfialf on the 100 degree day has had a diFficult time Dring- pbisticsted -than cement. we had on the fast day of July). ing CKD blowing off its site kilns. for example, hnzardous -~ Both sides, it seems, sre under control. It took the ex- waste incinerators are outfitted growing weary of the debate temal pressures of the Comma- with secondary combustion ~ end tones ofpersonal attack are pity Task Force to get coy chambers, afterburoers that fur• O starting to creep around the movemeo[ on the issue. tber combust the products of i i l b fringes of the controversy. The Hut some ptople who live t a Com ustion. in ~ (7 . next public meeting oo the peas the plant don't thick the The other thing is, demand - p ~ matter -Tuesday, August 20, problem has been adequately for aced tires as a raw material ~ - at Rogers Hall on High Street addressed yet. They complain in other, non-combustive uses p hers in Lyons -ought to bee that the cprinkler system de• is growing. Tees are stripped of barn burner. sign to keep CKD wetted down thc'a steel belts and pelletized 7 The last public meeting on and on the ground breaks dowo ~ for use oo anificiai sthtetiq c CEMEX's plan was actuslly aed then is out of service Cor turfs. Toes ueturned into rub• two compctiag meetings held some time while new parts ate her matt. Tmee are being tssdd. ?' simulUaeoualy at the CEMEX ordered. Why, they oak; doe{a't 'aa as aEditive to. esphiit that ~, - 8 plant out oa Vt2 Highwiy _tsy- CEMEX Yccp rparc ~yarSs "off :`Las"produced jtwd re3alU iti' r,r the North Bouldei County En-; -6and1 it's not as iC they don't - #C~toivis.:-;-~ ~'+- `-'-~ z-- ~ ' - v vironmantal~Healih "Commd•- Imow the sprinkler system will `":. Tom Abbott, chairm:o of oo i Wiry Tast Force) and it the. Dreat down now and then. M -the Community Test Foru, is - a Methodist church is Hygiene Ken Dobbs, of theEnviron- rightwbeohesayathatwehave 1 (by the St. Vrela Valley Watch- mental 7u`stice FIO)ett end ao obligation to make the most. dogs). Even with 4be crowd owner of ~s businsss tLit, in ~oftLenattualresourctaveex- split intwo, things are reported part, instalta spriakiiag :y:- tract from the earth. to have gotten testy at points. tams, says all sprinkler systems ~ But we'd alto do well to be To Ne the credit otthe tom- arc prone to breaking down ~ -exreful is bow we wring addi- - pany,they Gave been quite np ~ Tbe'groups vocally oppos- Yional".noes from tboee.ra- - front about their iateatioa to lag CEMEX's plan cite tbe_ ;squtees ind, is the ease oftitcd test bum tires, and anyone who CKD simatioa ac one reason - " Gies, tme recycling that turns had given it mue6 thought they don't trust the tompsny'~Grer ia[¢other products fi4 should have teen this proposal to bum tires at the plant. ~:` -~ `-ihit bill t4 hello than limply =, coming. Tire-burning in ce- Certainly the potential for `ahes7,~=:-1F~:+..- -. -~-:• -.::: - mcat kilns is • growing trend. hazardous emissions froth tite•" " ; if CEMEX vas really eob; CEMEX is pretty good at ~ burning ate possible, Dpen W ~:cetned with psdtiag subatapee puttinga cmilcy environmental tiro rvex~ are s eefioua health -behind"the-ttsetufe ofevviroa-- - fate oa its operatioria, putting ,'Lazard io a typical yea4:~ree- ~.mcnta/ eoncero sll corporatioea. ou[ hookafilled with wtldiife or"foar such fires break oat :are effectively required to photographs"md gTeaniag fhe` accost the the country. The op-~ -~~pidject,.tLry'd ix exploring sort awards fiat oflcA go to -posing groups say that oven if arya to rsre thcii tilde with- . ~~6uge eorporatibnt Shat do a ~ CEMEX could run the tiles $itural gts_ . little bit of cleaning uP aroand properly with tires mixed into "~~ r~Thditfuthat we should err the margins. But the fact re, the feet at a IOX to 20X tatiq "doe ~eatde"of tautioa whore mains that mating cemrnt is a ` 'upsets' that periodiaDyoccur -_hnman tieilfb is eoneemed, put dusty and, it seemt, environ- ~ baring combustion woulQ send four by Boafder County rosi- meatntly shaky proposition. the pcoducts of incomplete dart and CEMEX neighbor Lou "We mate dust, that's what we tombuatioa iota the, atmo- Dobbs, scema to be the best do," plant managu Sohn [ahr iphut, where such compounds guiding priociplr at work in 6u beta quoted ai saying. tan bind to partioulates in the -this controvenya CEMEX's Cement kiln dust (CKD) is air tad travel morn than 40 bonomtiae is not nearly so eig- thought to be a carcinogen. The miles before settling to eartt. ai£cant of a wacetn. The Old tittorder NewspaperwNeomes Mttenh~n ow readaa /B kRters must hct+de the aWhot's name and phone twnber for our verifieatba We reserve the ti¢d to sbtWye a add a0 ktten br span. 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