University Daily Kansan. February 10. 1982
Margaret Polz, city employee, adjusts one of the flow meters for the Lawrence water supply.
Treatment plant quenches city's thirst
By STEPHEN BLAIR Staff Reporter
In a noisy old brick factory near the Kansas River, Calvin Albert mixed more than one billion gallons of water Lawrence residents to drink last year.
The oldest of two local plants, it supplies a little more than half of the city's drinking water.
Albert is plant supervisor at the city's water treatment plant at Third and Indiana streets.
Water for the plant comes straight from the Kansas River, sucked in through the iron grating in a 12-foot concrete cone that pokes up through the
bundled against the recent chill, Albert stepped along a low catwalk above a circular concrete tank. The cloudy water had been spiked with a few gallons of water from the city's wells.
Insulated by the earth, the well water was warmer and kept this bit of river from freezing.
In the circular tank, the largest bits of river sediment started to fall to the bottom. The water was too murky to see clearly and slowly swept the sediment into a pit.
Although the treatment tanks are uncovered, Albert rarely finds animals in them.
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The clear water at the top of the tank was drawn away. It gurgled through a series of concrete channels that were encrusted with shards of ice.
Albert walked out of a storage shed next to the second holding tank, his boots leaving purple stains in the snow. The color was from potassium permanganate, the first chemical added to the water.
Albert went into a large noisy building. A pink funnel vibrating with 70 tons of lime hung from the ceiling, and other funnels, some green, some blue.
"It produces oxygen and helps with taste and odor," he said.
The funnel ended in a waist-high metal box. Albert opened a tiny door in its side to reveal broken lime dropping
onto a conveyor belt
The lime helps to soften the water," he said. "If raises the pH, or alkalinity of the water, so we don't deposit cal carbonate and plug up all the lines."
He opened another little door in the machine to reveal that the lime had been crushed and moistened. Blades curried it into an oozing batter before it
"In a factory, ordinarily, you don't recognize your raw material when it comes out," he said. "Here it's still water."
"It keeps anything in the water in suspension so that it doesn't settle out in the system," Albert said.
The last thing added to the water is sodium hexameta-ohosphate.
The image of a dusty, haggard farmer, with divining rod in hand, searching for some sign of water may persist in rural America. But it is being challenged by the complex machines of geologists.
By TOMHUTTON Staff Reporter
Search for water is a blast
Prospectors for low-lying sources of water now have the advantage because of a technique recently developed by two KU geologists. The new method involves firing .22 caliber bullets into the ground.
Don Steele, associate professor of geology, and Ralph Knapp, assistant scientist for the Kansas Geological Survey, have worked for six months to perfect a technique in which the vibrations from a standard .22 caliber bullet are measured when the bullet enters the ground. The vibrations show
Staff Reporter
USING VIBRATIONS to detect underground resources is not a new technique, Steeple said. In the 1920s oil companies began using vibrations from explosions to discover crude oil beneath the earth's surface. The firing of a rifle uses the same principle but on a much smaller scale.
But discovering water is not as easy as firing bullets into the ground, Steeples said. Neither is it as inexpensive.
Steepses said the expense of the new method, which lessens the possibility of drilling a dry hole, may be prohibitive for individuals.
dings to the American Geophysical Union Conference in San Francisco last December and has received many requests for information since then.
"We use one $100,000 piece of equipment that amplifies and filters the vibrations," he said. "It helps us to interpret the findings."
"We've had requests for more information from Malaysia, South Korea, Canada, England, as well as from all over the United States," he said.
Such initial enthusiasm, indicating a possible future for his technique, pleased Steelees.
He presented his preliminary fin-
"There is great enthusiasm in having other people request information," Steepsel said. "The more people we talk to with it, the sooner we'll find more uses."
where water-bearing rock formations are located within 25 feet below the base of the hill.
Other uses already under investigation by geologists for these shallow seismic studies include studies of underground rock formations that support buildings and dams. Archaeologists are also able to use the new technique to discover relics without unsuccessful digging.
Russian exhibit displayed at Spencer
Books and pamphlets written during the period of Russian history portrayed in the movie "Reds" are now on display in an exhibition at Spencer Research
The exhibition focuses on the life of John Reed, an American newspaper reporter who was in Russia during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Warren Beatty plays Reed in the recently released movie.
Michael Gebert, Wichita junior,
prepared the exhibit. Gebert, who
works in Special Collections at
Spencer, said he became interested in
the book after someone came to the library and requested to see some of Reed's poems.
"I had seen the film and liked it," he said, "and so I started digging for other materials from that time period to see how accurate the film was."
After researching the period, Gebert said, he thought the movie "Reds" was fairly accurate.
THE EXHIBITION, he said, displays a poem Reed wrote while attending
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Reed went to Russia and wrote "Ten Days that Shook the World", a first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution.
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The account has received the praise of many Western historians, Gebert said.
While Reed was covering the war in Europe, he became involved with the International Workers of the World and the Socialist Party. Gebert said.
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At the end of the war, Reed was indicted for treason in the United States. He died in Russia in 1920 by typhus and a bullet, being buried with honors in the Kremlin.
After graduating from Harvard, Reed quickly became the highest-paid reporter in the United States, Gebert said. He achieved recognition with a series of stories recounting his experience with democracy with revolutionary Pancho Villa.
It also includes work by Reed's friends and contemporaries, including a Eugene O'Neill play and pamphlets by Joseph Stalin; Emma Goldman, a Russian anarchist; and Grigor Zinoviev, a Russian communist leader.
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