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Camille GentaEnglish 2010-043Prof. H. BownOctober 14, 2013Stan Carter432435055880002 Stan helping pour a 1500 ton copper cake.2 Stan helping pour a 1500 ton copper cake.4324350243840000-16192526860501 Stan Carter and wife Beverly Carter1 Stan Carter and wife Beverly Carter-16192545720000Sitting in the living room in the early evening with light coming through the window, Stanley W. Carter (photo 1) rests comfortably in his favorite chair to answer questions from a curious student. Stan was born in June of 1931 and has lived in the Salt Lake Valley his entire life. He started working for Kennecott Copper on December 24th, 1953 and retired from there after 40 years of employment on January 1st, 1994. Stan worked in the refinery the entire time he worked for Kennecott (photo 2). He saw the purchasing and revamp on the smelter, the building of the 1, 200-foot smoke stack, and the construction of the waste water treatment plants.0000This photo from inside shows how some of the 900 tons of reinforcing steel was employed in the form that received 10,000 cubic yards of concrete in one of the largest continuous pours on record as base for smelter stackThe Smoke StackThe Kennecott smoke stack was completed approximately three months after the start date on August 26th, 1974, it was a continuous two day pour and it stands 1,215 feet tall, it is Utah’s highest man-made structure. The smoke stack was created to help control air pollution and reports to be one of the cleanest in the world with capturing 99.9 percent of sulfur emissions. CITATION Lyn09 \l 1033 (Arave)After the stack was finished the EPA was still concerned about the air quality and continued to press Kennecott with meetings. There were many concerned Kennecott employees that felt their jobs were being threatened and in response, Stan wrote a letter to the EPA, and received 2400+ signatures from concerned employees. (See Figure 1, pg. 5) Stan was later to present this letter to the EPA at meeting. “My boss called me and said that the plant manager wanted to see me,” Stan told me looking, probably as wide-eyed as he did when his foreman gave him the news, “so I went to his office and he says to me, “Stan, did you write this letter?” And I said that I could make any professional changes he needed, “I don’t want to change anything, but I want you to come to a meeting on Thursday and present this to the EPA.” Stan told him he couldn’t go since he had to work so if he did go it would be after he got off shift, since he didn’t feel right about being paid not to do his job. His wife Beverly Carter went to the meeting and held his place and when Stan’s shift ended at 4:00pm, he was at the meeting by 4:05 and presented his letter. “When I got up there in front of all of those people and read that letter, the room was quite. After I was finished, the meeting was over, we didn’t hear anything else about our jobs being threatened because of the air quality,” Stan giggled. 375285041084500Water TreatmentConstruction began on the water waste treatment plant in June, 1973 and the plant went into operation in the summer of 1974.CITATION Ken74 \p 16 \l 1033 (Kennecott Copper 16) The plant was designed to help with water pollutants from mining. Regardless of the attempts made by Kennecott at that time, in 1986 the State of Utah filed a Natural Resource Damage Claim for the loss of natural resources. Ten years later a settlement was reached that required the company pay $37 million into a trust, as well as installing interception wells, and providing a plan on how to replace the drinking water for the surrounding communities. CITATION Bon11 \p 2 \l 1033 (Gestring 2)The EconomyWhen asked how Kennecott benefitted the Utah economy, Stan talked about the number of people they employed at that time. “There was about 750 people at the refinery where I worked.” And, “Kennecott was in the top two employed fields, either it was Kennecott that was number one or employment of educators that was number one, I can’t remember which.” In an article by the President and CEO of Rio Tinto’s Kennecott Utah Copper, “hereby continuing to employ 2,400 Utahns and an additional 14,800 external jobs that rely on Kennecott's operation while contributing nearly $1 billion into Utah's economy, annually.”CITATION San11 \p "par. 1" \l 1033 (Sanders par. 1). Along with opportunities for employment, Kennecott also offers scholarships, sponsors Hale Center Theater, and has partnerships to improve biodiversity, one of which is the Tracy Aviary.Stan has always been a big supporter of keeping life within the valley. An avid fisherman, he rarely keeps what he catches. He keeps track of the local Jordan River bird population by counting how many birds hatch each season and how many return to their nesting sites. At one point, Stan would gather the eggs from abandoned nests and incubate the eggs, thus having a yard full of ducks and geese until he would take them back to the river and release them. (See Figure 2)Figure 1 Letter to the EPAFigure 2 Article in the Salt Lake Tribune about Stan CarterWorks Cited BIBLIOGRAPHY Arave, Lynn. Deseret News. 16 November 2009. 14 October 2013. <, Stan. Stan "The Man" Carter Camille Genta. 08 October 2013. Personal.Gestring, Bonnie. "Problems with Bingham Canyon Mine." 05 January 2011. . 10 October 2013. <. "Continuous pour forms base for 1,200-foot smelter stack." Keenescope. Salt Lake City: Kennecott Copper Corporation, July-August 1974.Kennecott Copper. "Plant Clearwater." Kennescope. Salt Lake City: Kennecott Copper Corporation, September-October 1974.Sanders, Kelly. "Kennecott's "Cornerstone Project"." 10 January 2011. Deseret News. 12 October 2013. <, Tom. "Old Man River has Faithful Pal." Salt Lake Tribune (2002): 1. Newspaper. ................
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