Wednesday, April 29,1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 5
City to renovate sewer system around stadium
By Jeremy M. Doherty
jdoherty@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
An engineering contract to renovate the sewers surrounding Memorial Stadium received the go-ahead from the Lawrence City Commission last night.
Commissioners voted unanimously to authorize City Manager Mike Wilden to execute a $357,986 deal with Burns & McDonnell, an engineering firm based in Kansas City, Mo.
The contract calls for a three-to four-month design process, with construction to begin immediately after designs are complete. The project will provide relief sewers for heavy rain events, said Debbie Van Saun, assistant utilities director.
"During certain rain events, like a 10-year storm, those existing sewers can become surcharged or overloaded." Van Saun said.
The renovations are part of a larger plan passed by the commission in 1995 to examine all of Lawrence's sewer and water-
treatment systems through 2020.
"This isn't happening because people are complaining." Van Saun said. "It's a plan to eliminate some problems and avoid some others."
The city and the engineering firm expect the project to be complete in early 1999. Dave Hauser, project manager for Burns & McDonnell, said work on the Memorial Stadium sewer system likely would begin as students were returning for fall classes.
Questions about traffic disruption should be answered when preliminary designs are completed this summer, Hauser said. The company will decide whether to work in underground tunnels or to cut into the surface of the streets.
Hauser said surface work would take longer than underground construction.
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Panel discusses recycling options
By Graham K. Johnson
jgohnson@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
As students prepare to move out of residence halls and apartments next month, they may want to remember that one person's trash truly is another person's treasure.
Recycling that unwanted trash when moving out was the theme of the "Spring 98 Move Out — What Can I Do With All of This Stuff?" panel discussion from 11:30 a.m. to p.m. yesterday at the Kansas Union.
The panel, sponsored by the University of Kansas Office of Resource Conservation and Recycling, included representatives from city agencies and University housing groups. They discussed how departing students could donate and recycle used goods.
K. T. Walsh from the Social Service League Store, 905 Rhode Island St., said that donations to her store helped needy people, but that the environmental benefits of recycling were just as helpful.
"We're all trying to do the same thing, which is to prevent stuff from getting into the landfill," Walsh said.
Mark Bradshaw, Walnut sophore and community service
chairman for the All Scholarship Hall Council, said he attended the discussion to learn about recycling options for his residents when they move out.
Boy Yoo of Lawrence's Public Works Solid Waste Division said his staff usually saw a sharp rise in the amount of trash they collected when people moved out of residence halls and apartments, particularly in May and August.
"By the time it hits the trash heap, it's too late. We've missed the opportunity to do anything," Yoos said. "If it ends up in the trash dumpster, it goes into the landfill."
Yoos said that he had seen good furniture, clothes and even a bass boat in the landfill.
He said there were places for people to drop off appliances and hazardous household goods. He said people should call his office at 832-3632 to find out more.
Walsh urged people to donate to her thrift store or to one of the others in Lawrence. She said that stores such as the Salvation Army and the Disabled American Veterans would pick up donated items.
Victoria Silva, event organizer,
said that students needed to prepare
their donations a month or
two before they moved out.
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