Page 10 University Daily Kansan, June 19, 1980
CHUCK ISAACSON/Kansan staff
A pond of water bubbles at the Douglas County Landfill. The water is bubbling because of escaping gases.
Workers to develop own job evaluations
Staff Reporter
By PAUL CARMAN
Civil service employees will take part in developing their own evaluation standards in a new plan scheduled for presentation today at the University of Kansas by a representative of the state personnel office.
Don Pesmark, state personnel administrator, is scheduled to present the plan which requires a supervisor to discuss an employee's job with him.
The employee would help develop the criteria for his own evaluation, Pesmark said yesterday.
"The supervisor and employee set standards of minimum performance for the employee's job" he said. "It will be against these standards that the employee will be evaluated at the end of his pay period."
Pesmark said the standards would be developed by mutual agreement.
"If a case does develop where the two cannot come to an agreement on the standards of evaluation, then it is the case that the standards to develop the standards." he said.
In most cases, the supervisors and employees should be able to come to an agreement with each other. Pesmark said.
David Lowen, University director of personnel, and Jan O'Neill, president of the Classified Senate, agreed that the new evaluation plan had advantages.
Lowen said, "The new system is more objective. It lets the employee know before the evaluation period what are by which he'll be evaluated."
Landfill pollution could spread
Still Reporters Again, the city of Lawrence is looking for a place to dump its trash.
By HURST LAVIANA and KIRK TINDALL
Staff Reporters
The D Dragstrip Road sanitary landfill site, which opened in 1967 and lasted only three of an expected 10 years, was damaged by a fire that caused methane explosions and blowing trash.
The current site, described as temporary when it opened in 1970, has been in operation in spite of opposition from citizens and government agencies.
DAVID SHIRK, who lives near the present site, said all of the residents nearby were concerned about the safety of their water.
"It scares you when you see the whole picture," he said. "You can't help but worry about it, but we have to live with it.
He said a lot of people in the area have already dug their wells deeper.
"We bought a water softener and a water filter. We're thinking about drilling deeper," he said.
When the current landfill was being planned in 1969, there were no state or federal regulations covering landfills. Since then, the Environmental Protection Agency has imposed guidelines that forbid placing a landfill
BARRING FLOOBS, the biggest problem at any landfill is leachate—water that has percolated through the waste and picked up contamination. When any landfall is saturated by landfill leachate is fostered. Because of the larger amount of water on the Douglas Landfill, it has more than its share of leachate.
on a flood plain. EPA officials said there was a possibility that flood waters would carry pollutants out of the land and into streams. The ootamina water supplies downstream.
Ross McKinney, professor of civil engineering, who worked on the design of the landfill site, said there was leachate at the landfill, but it was in small enough quantities that it was rendered harmless when diluted.
McKinney said the contaminants in the leachate were very high, but the concentration did not reflect the actual contents of materials leaving the landfill.
"WE FIGURED IT out," McKinsey said. "Even during a drought, if all the pollution from the landfill site were removed and not exposed to enough pollution to cause a problem."
Howard G. O'Connor, of the Kansas Geological Survey, said groundwater near the landfill site flowed toward the
river and away from wells in the area. Heavier metals tended to stay in the vicinity of the landfill, he said, and they could cause hard water if they got into a form. However O'Connor said lachance was a long way if it is not absorbed by clay.
David Tripp, assistant regional counsel for the EPA, said there was a need to move larger and moving long distances. He said the EPA is currently investigating an Iowa City, Iowa, manufacturing dumpster site where contaminated wells 60 miles away.
"There is no other way it could have gotten there," Tripp said. "There is nowhere else it could have come from."
The Douglas County Commission has tentatively approved a new landfill site at the Hamm Quarry, in Jefferson County a mile north of the present site. Residents of the area are now fighting to cover the landfill out of their back yards.
McKinney, one of the strongest backers of the present site, is one of the strongest opponents of the proposed site.
"If anybody's well is between Hamm's Quarry and the river, it's going to get full pollution," he said.
ALTHOUGH HE DOES not live near
the quarry, McKinney said a friend, Paul Smart, owns a hog farm at the bottom of the hill where the quarry landfill site would be placed.
"If there is a fissure in the rock, leachate can leak into the water supply," he said. "If the rock walls are damaged, the city is going to own a lot
McKinney said the EPA regulations were intended to promote recycling by making landfill operations too extensive.
According to Chuck Linn of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the EPA regulations require the lake to keep lachute out of the rivers.
"THINK ABOUT WHAT'S under your kitchen sink," he said. "That's what's going into the river."
Linn said another problem with a "wet" dump was that surface water often made it impossible to cover water with the required 8 inches of dirt each day. He said if trash remained untreated and disease became a problem,
When the landfill was in the planning stages in 1989, the Army Corps of Engineers predicted that water would render the landfill site 1.5 days each year.
Housing . . .
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which includes parking lots, garages, pools and club houses.
Lutz and Lowe agreed that condominiums were a viable alternative for home ownership as the housing market tightens.
CONDOMINIUMS HAVE become more popular because people are moving back to the cities to be closer to home. In contrast, the high price of transportation, be said.
Another direction housing may go is toward more manufactured housing, in the form of modular homes and mobile homes.
"The building industry is becoming capital intensive just like the automobile industry has." Latz said. "The cost of steel in lower cost than human can produce."
MOBILE HOMES were originally built for buyers in lower to lower-middle income groups. But with the house crunch, buyers in higher income brackets have begun buying manufactured housing.
Juanita Baxter, owner of Baxter Mobile Homes in Ottawa, said mobile home sales have been increasing.
"Our more expensive double-wide that go for about $20,000 are becoming people who don't want a real big home with lots of grounds to keep up," she said.
Inexpensive mobile home sales are also on the rise, Baxter said.
LUTZ, WHO DESIGNED mobile homes for three years, said. "Although the quality has improved a little bit, the majority of mobile homes are built as cheaply as possible. Mobile homes are merely tin boxes putted up on the inside with expensive-looking cheap furniture."
But mobile home manufacturers are aware of their market and build what it dictates, he said.
The quality of a building suffers when today has improved in some aspects but has declined in others, Lutz said.
"Quality in housing has improved because of the governmental restrictions dealing with such things as insect infestations, ventilation and smoke detectors," he said.
The quality of a bulding suffers when the builder uses materials such as immation bricks, Lutz said.
"QUALITY IS A rare commodity," he said. "I think people would be really surprised to see how much of their house or house is made out of fake materials."
Houses being built in Lawrence are of better overall quality than those going up in the Kansas City area. Lutz said.
"People are very image conscious in Johnson County," he said.
Films . . .
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said. "After a while you kind of get a sense for selecting the right fittings."
selecting. Right flits.
*For examinations, it is necessary to pack in the house. It's a quick way to make 200 bucks for the film program. But I'm not saying that I'm opposed to a
Movies are shown at Woodruff Auditorium on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays this summer at 7 p.m. Films to be shown in the remainder of
the semester are "Strokes," "Sunset Boulevard," "Charles-Depar or Alive," "Fantastic Planet," "The Wages of Fear," "Inherit the Wind," "The Great War," "Warhol's Bad," "Promises in the Dark," "All the King's Men," "Smiles of a Summer's Night," "Dog Day Afternoon," "The Loved One," "Sade," "The Story of Adele H.," "Hirshima Mon Amour," and "Steppenwolf."
Interim
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and Robert Wagstaff, executive vice president of the KU Alumni Association, Conard said.
THE REMAINING eight members will be selected by the Regents from nominations submitted by the first four. Of the remaining eight, one will be a faculty member from the College of Health Sciences, two will be faculty from KU's Lawrence campus one will be a faculty member from the College of Health Sciences, two will be students from the Lawrence campus, and two will be alumni.
At least one campus group would like
to see these ground rules for the search committee changed.
Jan O'Neill, president of the Classified Senate, said she wrote a letter last week to Haines requesting information in an representation on the search committee.
Haines said he received O'Neill's letter and would submit it for consideration by the Regents.
"THERE are a number of parties interested in the search committee." Haines said, "all of who would like to be involved. Not all of them can.
"I think their requests are well intentioned and well-founded, but I think it would be ill-advised to respond to these various contingencies."
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