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8A /Editorial page St. Paul Dispatch We sb fi strive w report the Dews a�:cur"W'y sad �� asd wia #xprt" cpinmoa hs ving no dot+bt as oo our po"Mo& BERNARD H. RIDDER. I933.147S BERNARD H. RIDDER JR- Ckairs " DAVID HALL. ExAcurivt Ediwe THOMAS L CARLIN, Prnid<st /Pu►iisies M. F. CENT0 . M Edawt JOHN R. FINNEGA.N, Vice Pre kk2t/E40w RONALD D. CLARL Editorial late Editor tal recover facilityvital wmmmmwmw� Mey Minnesota plating shops and metal finishers geDerate about 12,DDD tons of hazardous waste a year. Most of it, un- fortunately, gets flushed down the drain and ends up in the Pigs Eye treatment plant.. From there, it either is discharged into the Mississippi River or gets locked up in sewage sludge. About 234 tons of metal-conUmlimted sludge is being spread on valuable Minnesota farmland annually. That cavalier discharge practice must come to a halt next April, when a federal water quality regulation will require that all heavy metals be re- moved from waste water before it can be discharged. .This Aeadline has prompted a group of 22 Twin Cities industries to band to- getber and ask the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission to help them build a metals recovery facility. The group wants the commisaioa to pay about $3 Editorials million for the necessary land, building and equipmn nt It plans to pay back the commission in about five years. Sua a faedlity would ,cave MiMMSD- UPS metal plating industry. it Would help recover a valuable resource that Dow is wasted. It would help keep twk beavy metals out of the MmisuPPi River and off farm fields, he"' they m� are abwci ed by P� ced Into the food chain of both animals and man. The question is Dot whether Minne- sotk heeds such a facility (it does), but bow to finance it. �e u�i0n must ust be addressed by F°�ith on s timeq' � ��ra"Inout and the stakes h1�,� d give the request i te ooasideration.