University Daily Kansan, April 28, 1982
Furlev
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"Our conclusions should have told them earlier that they should be doing something." Wilson said. "That's the thing I'm dissatisfied with."
The residents of Furley, who are even more issatisfied, have fired a $10 million lawsuit against the city.
"It is terrible; it is rotten; it is scummy to think that our government wants to work in this way."
THEY SAY Harkins worked hand-in-hand with NIES, and that the secretary would have granted NIES the expansion permit if Stephan hadn't stopped him.
"The only two people you can believe are Attorney General Stephan and Frank Wilson."
"Unguestionably, KDHE won't tell us
when we've worked on hand-
in with the company."
That statement was echoed by Toni Harvey, an English teacher at Wichita State University who last year spent eight months investigating the Ark Valley as a reporter with the Ark Valley News.
Harvey, whose work won the state Victor-Murdock award for outstanding reporting, said both the KDEE and NIPS had responded angrily to a complaint that tried to downplay the Halton report, she said.
"Everything that Frank Wilson had to say has been virtually ignored by the Department of Health and Environment," she said. "The entire team is so ignorant about what's happened out there."
"It's been a nightmare and it's still a nightmare."
But for Harkins, Wilson's involvement in the Furley controversy has been a nightmare.
As a temporary item we want care be taken on the project in the first place,* he added.
In reference to Wilson's judgment of Haliburton, Harkins said, "I can't imagine anyone in a position like Wilson's dealing in such wild and incorrect speculation."
Harkins and several other state officials, including Hambleton, say the differences between Wilson's and Haliburton's reports are because of differences in the way the two men went about
HAMBLETON SAID Halliburton's study centered on laboratory experiments to determine whether the soil around the Furley site was permeable to water.
Because the soil around the site is predominantly clay, which is relatively impermeable, Haliburton reported that the site would not leak liquid chemicals, Hambleton
But Haliburton did not detect cracks through the wood, and did between layers of clay. Holliburst said.
"Frank thought Halliburton didn't see those features on purpose." Hambleton said. "I can't understand that."
"Maybe Halliburton was paid just to look at the soil, Wilson said. "But that strikes me as casual."
Wilson admits that Halliburton may have accurately computed the found, but, he said, could not prove it. He remains certain.
"The whole issue should be whether there was underground water on the site. Even a geotechnical engineer should have understood that."
Although state officials say the fact that Wilson is a geologist and Haliburton an engineer explains the differences in their reports, Wilson doesn't agree.
Because of Halliburton's past, he in particular should understand the importance of reporting issues in the workplace.
Just prior to Haliburton's study at Furley, the Oklahoma Department of Health rejected a Haliburton study of a swine flu strain. The Stellwarp picture of water conditions on the site.
Don Hensh, a director at the Oklahoma agency, said, "Haliburton's report was denied because there were some unanswered questionable matters in the presence of shallow water under the site."
Haliburton said no parallels existed between the two studies.
Wilson, however, disagreed. The parallel, he said, was that both reports were unacceptable.
However, Hensch said accusations of seduction at Haliburton's part never arose.
BUT WILSON disagrees now with less vigor than before. For months he has implied, without the support of Hambleton or any state officials, that some wrongdoing had gone on at the Purley
But Wilson, a tall, stocky man who says he tends to shoot straight, now responds with both a grim face and a smirk.
When asked why state officials hardly responded to the survey's report, Wilson thought it was "not a problem."
"As to whether there's any covering up going on, I think there is," he said.
Wilson said his report made the KDHE look bad, because Harkins nearly granted the expired license.
In what he thought was an attempt to play down that fact, Wilson said, the KDHE immediately hired yet another engineering firm after the survey delivered its findings.
At about the same time, NIES also engaged another firm, Woodward Clyde of Chicago, to build a new facility in Brooklyn.
Although the firm hired by KDHE determined that none of the work done by Halliburton or the survey could be considered "state of the art," the survey team had substituted the survey's report, Wilson said.
"The Woodward-Clyde study was much more extensive, thorough and costly than ours," he said, "but their results were pretty much the same.
On that point, Hambleton agreed.
"Our report gave KDHE a true geological picture."
But in a recent KDHE newsletter, Mel Gray,
a professor of environment fails to
acknowledge the validity of the study.
"Of the four engineering reports done on the site during the last five years." Gray wrote,
Hambleton said, "That is not fair to our report."
"only the Woodward-Clyde report gives the true geological picture."
THOUGH he disagreed with Wilson's belief that such statements were attempts to discredit the survey's involvement in the Furley controversy.
"Frank's bolting point is lower than mine," he said.
But the differences between Hambleton and Wilson, two KU geologists, go beyond tem-
Hambleton, who admitted he did not want the Furley issue to damage his relationship with KDHE, said, "I have a profound sympathy for regulatory agencies."
Wilson, however, said his sympathies lie with the people of Furley.
"KDHE tends to just ignore the people altogether." Wilson said. "You can't do that."
Partly because of Wilson's testimony, this session the Kansas Legislature established a state hazardous waste board to review any further requests for dump sites.
However, Wilson recently was ousted from another board that will study the report of a second Woodward-Clyde study, this one on the seriousness of the leakage at the existing site in
"They knew I wouldn't keep the result of that study quiet, " Wilson said.
The Woodward-Clyde report should determine when, if ever, the Furley waste site is reopened.
But Harkins, a member of the board from which Wilson was dropped, said he had lost patience with Wilson's search for a Furley conspiracy.
"We are not the least bit interested in what Wilson seems to have conjured up in his mind," Harkins said. "I have done everything that's been done to me if I lived next to the door. I were worried. too."
"But I'm looking for a solution. I'm not looking for a victim . . . for someone to hang up. If someone did something intentionally dishonest, eventually it will come to light."
Moses
were and putting in some of the fine detail. They will then put on the patina, clean it and wax it, he said.
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"Then we'll be ready to move it, I hope," he said.
He said the work on the sculpture had been a valuable teaching aid.
"It has served as a teaching tool and it has served its purpose well," Teff said.
"A lot of people have learned a great deal and it has tested the facilities here, too."
HE SAID IT was a great learning experience
(HE SAID IT) on it to get the opportunity
to work on a project.
Tefft said that he was sad to see the project end, but that he was glad to have been a part of it.
"It's much more important to me that it gets completed," he said.
Tefft hesitated to say how much the sculpture cost to construct. Money for the materials and for some of the students' salaries was raised through the School of Religion.
Tefft received no pay for his work
"A comparable piece of sculpture would be worth $100,000," he said.
The statue will be dedicated on May 12, Taylor said. At that time, the donor of the burning bush stained glass window, who has remained anonymous, will be introduced.
The Rev. William Coffin, senior minister of the Riverside Church in New York City, will speak at 8 p.m. on May 12 in Woodruff Auditorium. His will open the lecture series sponsored by the school.
Taylor said Coffin would speak on "The Arms Race and the Human Race."
An ordained Presbyterian minister, Coffin has been involved in civil rights and anti-war movements and has served as a member of the present's Advisory Council for the Peace Corps.
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