CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, February 7, 1985 Page 9
Engineers discuss water treatment with students at campus conference
By ANN PETERSON Staff Reporter
Research that affects water treatment plants throughout the world is being conducted by KU students, participants at the 35th Annual Environmental Engineering Conference were told yesterday.
Ross McKinney, professor of civil engineering, said students in environmental engineering and in biology were researching different areas of water pollution in laboratories on the fifth floor of Learned Hall.
About 75 people attended the daylong conference that provided a forum for speakers who were concerned about hazardous waste, polluted water and water treatment and storage. The conference was in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
"Our current research is the most exciting," McKinney said. "We are concerned with the water policy in Arizona and that research has been treated through anaerobic treatment."
STUDENTS ARE WORKING to discover the fundamentals of the anaerobic process of waste water treatment, by which microorganisms mix with water and produce methane gas with no oxygen present. McKinney said.
In the University labs, mason jars filled with microorganisms in a mud solution are monitored to observe the gas the microorganisms produce, said Julian Sandino, who received his master's degree in environmental health engineering in December from the University of Kansas.
McKinny said the gas was a by-product of the anaerobic process. The process is beneficial to industries that burn gas more sold or used as fuel by the industry.
This waste water treatment process will be more efficient than the current process used in most large cities, including Lawrence, said Sandino.
NOW, WASTE WATER is aerobically rather than anaerobically treated at the Lawrence Treatment
Plant, Sandino said. The process leaves a large mud pile after the water is cleaned.
During the luncheon, Sandino, who is from Bogota, Colombia, was presented the J. Loyd Burrow Award in Environmental Engineering.
Also at the conference, James Power Jr., a spokesman for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said that the large amount of underground water in Kansas needed to be made safe for domestic, agricultural and industrial use.
Water in Kansas is polluted mostly by salt that is a by-product of oil drilling and by natural minerals that are present in the water. Power said.
Power said Congress had amended the Safe Drinking Water Act to allow state plans for the development of ground water management.
"WE ARE AHEAD of many states in ground water because much of our water is not pollutive." Power said.
ON CAMPUS
TODAY
A WEEKLY PRAYER group,
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LATIN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY'S weekly rice and beans dinner will be at 6 p.m. at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
THE FIRST MEETING of the Dr. Who Fan Club will be from 7 to 9 p.m. in Parlor A of the Kansas Union.
GAY AND LESBIAN Services of Kansas will have a general membership meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the International Room of the Union.
SIGMA PSI, THE KU personnel administration club, will meet at 7 p.m. in the Cork II Room of the Union.
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