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that AVTEX sends its engineers every year to Sweden and West Germany, the two leaders in research on emission controls.
No Research By AVTEX
Robert Dennis, state vicepointed by our governor to League, reported that he toured the AVTEX plant 10 years ago and found at that time that the company was spending absolutely no money on air pollution research and was instead relying totally on European countries for information on how to prevent air pollution.
Kearns agreed that AVTEX is currently spending “a very small amount of money on their own" for anything relating to air pollution research other than travel expenses to West Germany and Sweden.
"I’ve been smelling that plant for 30 years,” continued Dennis, addressing the lack of recent complaints on Front Royal odors. He reported that the two Isaac Walton League chapters in Fauquier had stopped filing complaints on the stench from the town because they “weren’t doing any good.” Warren County’s two Isaac Walton Chapters are still working on the problem, he said.
Dennis relaved quotes from the Izaak Walton presidents in Warren County. Of the smell, one said, “We get used to it.” The other chapter president said, “We’ve learned to live with it. The only way to end it is to shut down 2,000 jobs.”
Capt. W. J. Keim, operator of a Christmas tree farm near Amissville, brought in samples of pine trees damaged by air pollution. He said he’d written a letter of complaint to the State Corporation Commission and received a “very sweet” answer back but no end to the pollution.
He cited what he described as a precedent setting case in which a company was ruled liable after the complaintant demonstrated under laboratory conditions that the same hydrogen sulfide and ozone pollutants released by the company's facility caused damage to pine trees. ^ ^
Keim asked if the smoke stacks on Front Royal plants hadn't been elevated to get emissions “out of town.”
Kearns agreed that the stacks had been elevated and said this move would push emissions “out to the country.”
Park Fighting Pollution
Robert Jacobsen, superintendent of Shenandoah National Park, was in the audience at last Friday’s meeting. “For the last two years. I’ve been up to my armpits in air matters,” said Jacobsen as he got up to speak. He attributed the odors blowing into the county to AVTEX, noting that the plant had installed bags in June. 1980. to take the color out of the smoke plumes spewed from its stacks. “Now you can smell it but you can’t
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