Friday, April 19, 1974
university Daily Kansan
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Clinton Dam Construction Continues on Water Outlet Gate
Clinton Arouses Concern
By SUZI SMITH Kansan Staff Reporter
The concern of the many organizations and agencies involved in the planning for Clinton Lake has been to prevent a water contamination that have occurred at other similar projects.
Jack Rose, Lawrence mayor, said recently that very little planning had gone on in his district.
When Perry was built, he said, people didn't know what to expect. For this reason people have been very interested in the planning at Clinton.
WALTER CRAGAN, chairman of the board of Douglas county commissioners, said, "At Perry the developers just came in and drew up pretty maps,"
There were no subdivision regulations, he said, and many people purchased lots they couldn't build on. Some of the roads have sunk into the ground, he said, and holding tanks for sewage have to be cleaned constantly.
He said the commission intended to keep everything at Clinton in a 'pretty clean and well-managed' way.
The lake will be formed by a dam on the Wakarusa River about four miles southwest of Lawrence. The planned completion date for the 7,000 acre lake is sometime in 1977. According to Paul D. Barber, district chief of the engineering division of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Clinton Project was authorized by Congress in 1962.
THE CORPS is building the darn on land acquired from private owners since 1967, he
Although the primary element necessary for the Corps to undertake a project like this is flood control, he said, there has been a government to develop multi-purpose use lakes. The Clinton Lake will be used for recreational purposes and to supply water
Although the dam and lake themselves are a federal project, city, county and state jurisdiction.
The federal government, represented by the Corps, will retain ownership of more than 16,000 acres including several areas for recreational use and a 300-foot strip around the shoreline that could flood when the lake is filled for flood control.
SOME OF THE land will be leased to
other organizations—educational areas to Public School District No. 497, the University of Kansas Endowment Association and Haskell Indian Junior Academy for the wildlife management areas to the Forestry, Fish and Game Commission.
Ed Dischner, Corps recreation director, said four areas would be developed by the Corps for recreation with a fifth, Clinton Park, to be developed jointly with the state.
The Corps called for input by the community into the proposed use of the lands, which prompted the formation of the League of Women Voters, organized by the League of Women Voters.
The coalition, formed in February 1973, wrote majority and minority recommendations for the planning of recreational land at the lake.
DAN PALMQUIST, chairman of the coalition's steering committee, said the committee included eight representatives of different organizations in Lawrence.
Palmquist said he thought the coalition members were quite pleased with the cooperation they got from the Army Corps of Engineers, and many of the coaliations' suggestions were incorporated into the Corps' master plan.
Some controversy arose between the coalition's members in PENTON Section 4.
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