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.JSr ~~~Gr' ~ _ I i:, Cu I egUlaie by 'Bn $U~510 h J,'WWV1.GhfOnCOn' B r' ! ~ , r. t$ t nt1 hron~c.elpa~eLS7ltirpgrh~,rrrain,~:m~ "Ti~ere watt surne question (in 1990) as to ~.,hether hydrogen sulfide was a pervasive enough pollutant.," said I3i'~.; 1 t,i~ r.~u. as ;ociate director of the E4'A's Air Qualit; Strategies and Standards Dhis'iun at ~r _ , :::~ar~rzic Part, N C "h was felt that there were very few sources of it." Th:~'hrur:icle"= ~.udv denrunstrates othertivise "Thi, stuff is like a>~ ;tug it's everywhere," said Ur Kaye Kilburn, a professor at the t.`niversifv of tiout`:rern Caliiurnia School of ~iedir.ne who has reported neurological effects unbalance, tunnel vision, inability to concer5trate from exposures to very low concentrations ufhydrogen suEfidc. "If we'd had any sec»c, we'd have dune something about it," Kilburn said Indeed, the che~uical's dangers have been known for centuries One of its elemental components is sulfi~r, the l-riaistone in biblical descriptions of hell to his 1862 novel Le.i A4rti~erc~files, French author Victor Huge, was referring to hydrogen sulfide wtter, he described "slow ast~h~ pia i:y unclean?mess" among workers in the squalid sewers of ['aril Victims of hti drogert su(tide exposures at a minimum are af}licted with throbbing heads, stinging e}'es acrd .;horning sromachs Those who have suffered acute exposures do not forget the experience, a nightmarish fusion of drunkenness and the worst cunccic able bout of stomach flu. Gai} Co~~'s renumbers stet?ping out the back door of his business, Manistee Auto Electric, tt~ drank a cup of cufl'ee and enjoy the breeze from nearby Lakc Mictrigan the afternoon uf.Aug 27, t996. What he got insicad was a whdf of hydrogen sulfide, liberated during the plugging of a sour gas well about 100 yards a,.va} 'l4'e we n't advised ufan}thing," said Cools. 47 "W'e heard a rush of gas coming from the welllrcad arcs It sounded like a jet engine " A white cloud, reeking of rotten eggs driHeJ southeast into Couls's shop and se'.ea3! other busine~se~. ern Parkdalc Avemre in tifanistee Cools became nauseated and giddy I its eyes burnad, and he couldrr'~ dr :o. a fidl breath Cools, hie wife Judy and mne oth,~r people wound r.rp going to the emergency room that day. Cools cominue~ to rrcei:e trertLncnr for breathing ditticulties, has (rouble sl; eying and has beer weakened ~,ti repeated respiratun~ mfcctions f9~r incident in titenisfec last year is among at least i E that have occurred since 1993 in the'~r~~rth~~ti;i~t~:rn Lut~.r Peninsula. k~~cl} resort area undcr!ain b}~ a deep nalurai gas field cali.d the'~`iagaran Rey:±- In recent years, the reef ha, attracted a norther of exploration and productic7n companies, most of them smn~' inda~rn,len~, t ate r)rl the P~, e!`~ng. Of'~~!?j IZ ?Q'1.~ a $oUC i'az. COnlpreSSGi ~tallUn near LndinglOn. i~~ nlllf'~ Sl'UIi: :U R1dni~!c,~, `,;c~~ ~:u}.rl fhc Lce~r~r-rfrcn-au ~luud Untt ~sas released acid nru~rd along the l.irn~::u h~~,_i