FRIDAY,APRIL5,2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5A
Creek not affected by sludge
By Lauren Beatty Kansan staff writer
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment told University of Kansas officials that sludge, a gooey industrial waste byproduct, found near West Campus Creek outside the University Vehicle Maintenance Garage, 3005 W. 15th St., did not have any environmental effect on the area where it was found.
Lynn Bretz, director of University Relations, released the information yesterday after a meeting with the health department.
Facilities Operations and the KU Department of Environment, Health and Safety.
The sludge was contained in an oil drum and sent to Topeka for testing to make sure it was not toxic. Doug Riat, director of Facilities Operations, said results of the testing were due early next week.
Tom Bryce, the University mechanic who made complaints about the sludge, said he was worried it could be toxic if it was petroleum distillate, and the testing would determine the level of toxicity.
Riat said the sludge was collected in a strainer in the oil separator in the main drain of the garage. The drain is 6 by 10 by 14 inches. Riat said the container was relatively small and was used to catch all the solids, such as sand, dirt and debris that pass through the drain. The strainer was dumped outside yesterday as part of the routine cleaning of the drain.
Riat said he was concerned that some of the sludge may have fallen outside the building.
Contact Beatty at ibeatty@kansan.com.
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ings. Tim Griffith, Liberty Hall manager, said he had heard that the tunnels in the basement were used during the Underground Railroad.
"There are rumors that they were used to take slaves down to the river," Griffith said. "We searched diligently. We even crawled in little crawl spaces you wouldn't want to go in, and we couldn't find anything."
The Underground Railroad operated in Kansas from 1854 to 1861. A system of hiding places in barns and houses were used to move slaves from the South to freedom in the North.
Jansen said that Lawrence, which was founded in 1854, was not a large enough town at the time to build a system of tunnels for the Railroad. He said tunnels were often built to transfer slaves in the East, but there was no history of building tunnels in Kansas.
"People take the name Underground Railroad" a little too literally." Jansen said.
A more recent rumor is that
the tunnels and other secret rooms under Massachusetts Street buildings were used during prohibition. David Millstein, owner of Liberty Hall, said he'd also heard speculation that some of the tunnels and rooms in Liberty Hall's basement were used as speakeasies.
"When we bought the building in 1985 we looked for evidence to support it, but we haven't found anything," Millstein said.
Jansen said prohibition began in Kansas in 1880, 30 years before it affected the entire country. So, Kansas had a longer history.
He said the rumor could be supported because Lawrence followed prohibition laws more strictly than other cities in Kansas, so there was a larger need to obtain alcohol secretly.
Jansen said there was a warehouse in Lawrence where alcohol was illegally sold during prohibition.
However, Jansen said he had never seen documented stories about speakeasies.
Contact Boyer at cboyer@kansan.com. This story was edited by Brooke Hessler.
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the Social Norms Media Campaign to 1,608 students.
Kelly Mosher, assistant coordinator of the campaign, said the KU survey was not meant to determine if students binge drink, and could not be compared to the Harvard survey because of differing questions.
Bill Smith, interim director of health education at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that many factors affected how fast a person became intoxicated. He said women would feel the effects of alcohol more strongly than men because women generally had a higher ratio of body fat to water.
Alcohol is not absorbed into the body fat, so when it is absorbed into the bloodstream, it is less diluted.
Smith said that no matter the gender, excessive drinking could lead to alcohol poisoning.
The KU survey showed that 90 percent of the women responding said they only drank in environments in which they knew they would be safe. It also showed that 71 percent said they had one or fewer drinks per hour the last time they partied.
Contact Shafer at Ishaffer@kansan.com. This story was edited by Jenna Goepfert.
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