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The Sacram S E C T I O N UP RIOR C s the San Joaquin River, down State drafts warnstream from Stockton. But since those so-called"rough fish"are not popular with most an- glers, no health warning was thought necessary. on dioxin-tainted But an error was discovered in • the October report. The 22.5 ppt ish in Valley�J/ �l y- riT Tern reading was actually from the filet I of a rainbow trout, a very popular target of Sacramento River an- By Tom Harris state and federal agencies, includ- glens. Bee staff Writer ing the Environmental Protection And, now, state health officials t Agency are using their own tougher rating i State health officials have The State Water Resources Con system, one they say is "mare t drafted,but not yet posted,a warn. trol Board first informed Shasta health conservative"than EPA's. t ing against eating fish from parts and San Joaquin counties of a po- Using that toxicity scale, the of the Sacramento and San Joa- tential problem with the fish on trout dioxin level is 120 ppt, well gain rivers because they may con Oct.8.State law spawned by Prop- above the 50 ppt that the federal Iain harmful levels of dioxin, a le- osition $5 requires such notifica Food and Drug Administration it thal chlorine compound in the tion when there is knowledge of suggests is the limit for safe vel that hat waste of some pulp and paper impending exposure.to compounds sumption and the 25-50 le { mills and wood preservative that cause cancer or impair safe restricts safe eating to no more b plants. birth, and dioxin is capable of do- than twice a month. Other tests results have come in The tainted fish were first dis- ing both. c covered this summer as part of an Using an EPA rating formula since the initial disclosure last c ongoing national study of river that assigns equivalent toxicity to month.Using the state toxicity rat- o contamination, but a full-scale 75 different kinds of"dibenzo-p-di- ing, two of those appear to be un warning has been delayed by dif-. oxins" and 135 other "dibenzofur- safe. One is a sucker from Old O ferences over toxicity in incredi- ans,".the highest dioxin concentra- Mormon oto 1�2 ppt and the otherough near Stock Sac bly minute concentrations—parts tion reported then was 22.5 ppt. a per trillion, equal to a single drop That was reported to. be in a ramento River sucker near Red t, in 10,000 gallons of water. sucker from the Sacramento River Blur ith other fish are between 25 s The need for a warning has downstream from Anderson, C been vigorously discussed both tween Redding and Red Bluff.The and 50; a biackfish from the Port I within the state Department of only other level of concern was of Stockton (44 ppt),a sucker from ` Health Services and between its di- 49.2 ppt in the whole body of a See DIOXIN, page B2 oxin experts and those with other carp from Old Mormon Slough on t This ®ne didn't gkt aW�y 1 4- .r /g✓Ij kt h .77 K'_ There's a lot of competition from other an- on the American River below Nimbus Dam, lens turning out for the chinook Salmon run but that doesn't bother Lun Tran of Sacra- aw CT10N '8$ r room supporters fold vote peer � as Rio Vista voters kill plan educatior. By Ken Payton cial difficulties. Lack of town income By Deb Kollars Bee staff Writer from sales taxes and natural gas re- Bee Education Writer ceipts has caused layoffs of city em- Smaller class sizes, highe The third time may be the charm, ployees,part-time operation of the City salaries and more books an, but not for proponents of a multimillion Hall and 10 percent cuts in wages. supplies lie in store for C dollar cardroom in Rio Vista. The cardroom was seen by the city schools thanks to the Harr^"" Residents of the financially strapped as a way of recovering from.its eco Sacrame.nto-San Joaquin Delta town on nomic