Friday, September 8, 1978
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Heat prompts nighttime sprinkling
By BILL HIGGINS
Staff Reporter
Until the weather changes, the menacing KU sprinkler system should be dousing pedestrians and cars only between the hours of 9 p.m. and 10 a.m.
Gene Vogt, director of the city's public utilities department, said yesterday that he had asked KU's department of facilities operations and the city's park and recreation department to limit their watering to between 9 p.m. and 10 a.m.
The request will extend, Vogt said, until the current heat wave breaks.
Vogt said the city's water plant continually was pumping at, or nearly at, its capacity. The plant's capacity currently is about 14 million gallons of water a day.
The plant's normal capacity is 17 million gallons of water daily, but because the Kansas River is low the capacity has been reduced.
ALTHOUGH THE PLANT S water pump meter has been consistently reading 14 million gallons a day, V咕说, the actual amount daily was closer to 16 million gallons a day.
He said that when the amount used exceeded the amount pumped, the city's water reserve was depleted. He said the city had a drainage system in which stored in several tanks around the city.
"We could sure tell when the students came back," Vogt said. "The water usage was really high."
The maximum water usage recorded in Lawrence was in the summer of 1976, when a total of 348,000 gallons were used.
"When you get an influx of 18 or 20
thousand people, it's like adding a
billion to your bank account."
Vogt said water usage significantly increased when enrollment began at the school.
Lawrence has increased its water usage by an average of more than 22.5 million
Despite a Lawrence City Commission decision Tuesday night to approve the property and design of the Sunrise Apartments, the students still are opposed to the development.
Residents fear complex to add to traffic load
By JOHN FISCHEF Staff Reporter
The 130-unit apartment complex will be located at the northwest corner of Ninth and Sweetwater.
William Griffith, 818 Broadview, said yesterday that he thought the complex work of the program would be completed.
The main concern of area residents is that traffic and safety problems could result from the high number of vehicles.
Griffith said the biggest traffic problem would be an increase in the number of cars turning left from Emery Road, Michigan to enter the apartment complex exit on Ninth Street.
He said this would create traffic congestion during morning and evening hours, as residents of the complex come, and go from work or classes.
Griffith researched the traffic flow and the number of accidents on Ninth Street. He said that according to a study in 1971, traffic from the area east of Ironton Iowa streets was found to be over capacity.
THE PLANS for the complex include two entrances. One entrance will be located on Ninth Street near the crest of the hill that is between Michigan Street and Avalon Road. The other entrance will be on Michigan Street.
Griffith also said that according to studies since 1973, the number of accidents each year on Ninth Street between Mississippi and Iowa streets has increased from eight to 60.
He said he thought the complex would have an effect on traffic and safety in that
"There is a traffic problem already with
Nike." Church said. "But we won't
add to it."
Church said the residents of the complex would increase traffic on Ninth Street by 1 percent of the total volume of traffic each year.
HOWEVER, some of the city commissioners and the developer, Ed Church, do not think there will be further traffic problems.
Jack Rose, a city commissioner, said Tuesday night he did not think the complex would greatly affect the traffic flow on Ninth Street.
"The impact of this has really been blown out of proportion," Rose said. "I don't think this will have anywhere near the impact that has been voiced."
gallons each year for the past 92 years. In 1977, the usage reached almost 3.25 billion gallons.
The public utilities department obtains all its revenues from water fees and receives no revenue from land taxes.
**VOGT SAID** Lawrence would use about 2.7 billion gallons of water this year, about a quarter of the amount in 1990.
said, the city used more than 1.3 billion gallons of water.
In the first six months of this year, Vort
Thus the water department must sell water to remain financially solvent.
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