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Page 84SEA FENCE MAY CONTROL OIL AND WASTEThe development and marketing by Johns-Manville of a marine “fence,” called Spillguard, offers considerable promise in the control of floating debris and oil spilled by leaking of oil-carrying vessels or by onshore or off-shore facilities such as drilling rigs and tank farms. Relatively inexpensive and easily stored and handled, Spillguard can be used either to contain floating oil and debris within an encircled area such as a damaged vessel or, conversely, keep it out of a protected area, such as a beach when containment is impractical.Spillguard consists of 10 ten-foot lengths of compressed asbestos-rubber sheet with a foamed floatation material cemented along both sides so that the sheet rides upright. The ten-foot sections are assembled together with a reinforced rubber hinge. One hundred-foot lengths can be easily and quickly combined to form a boom of any desired total length.Typical applications include elimination of floating pollution out of industrial channels serving power plants or industrial installations, isolating sites of off-shore operations, bunkering into lighters by super-tankers, protecting recreation areas and beaches on an ocean, lake, or similar waterfront location, surrounding off-shore drilling rigs, or protecting any similar location where floating oil or debris could endanger wild life or recreational areas.MUNICIPAL NEWSCOMBINED CITY-COUNTY PURCHASINGIN LOUISVILLE HASThe City of Louisville, Ky. and Jefferson County report a big saving and greater purchasing efficiency by combining the purchasing departments of the two public bodies, according to a story in the October American City Magazine.Launched Kn 1965Could the same benefits result from combining the purchasing departments of the City of Seattle and King County?Richard S. Greer, director Purchasing Department of Louisville and Jefferson County, reported that on duly 1, 1965 the city and the county created this new department. This was preceded by discussions between Mayor William Cow-ger and Jefferson County Judge (Commissioner) Marlow. It involved a city and county with a combined population of 611,000 population which is not too much smaller than King County.The first step was moving the new agency from the City Hall to new and expanded quarters in the Fiscal Court Building.Here have been the resultingGOOD RESULTSceived a letter requesting them to list their high-use items. Previously bids were asked on some of these items as many as 20 to 30 times a year which have been reduced to three or four time. All departments are notified 80 days prior to bidding in order to line up their buying needs.As an indication of substantial savings in buying, during the last full year of the operation of the City Purchasing Department it bought about $9 million worth of goods and services as compared with the first four months of the combined city-county purchasing when the volume purchased totalled only $2,100,000.Expenses DownOnly 4,699 requisitions were issued by the new City-County Purchasing Department over a four months’ period as compared with 12,000 requisitions issued by the city office alone during a comparable period.The 1964-65 expenditure for the county purchasing operation was $66,457. It is estimated that the annual cost of the combined purchasing offices will only be $71,000.The supply depot stocks 1,200 items as compared with 1,700 items
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Seattle Municipal News
Seattle, Washington, US
Mon, Feb 10, 1969
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