CITY AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1984
Page 15
Nature reclaiming Clinton
By JOHN SIMONSON
Staff Reporter
A haven for local water skiers, boaters and swimmers lies four miles southwest of Lawrence. But Clinton Lake will not always be fit for swimming, boating and skiing because it is a man-made lake and will eventually be filled with salt and other sediments in a natural reclamation process.
A silted-in Clinton would be recreationally unmusable as it would be too shallow for safe water sports. Shorelines would gradually shrink as vegetation grew in the shallows.
The Army Corps of Engineers, the lake's designer and builder, does not expect that to happen until about the middle of the 22nd century, when the lake is 200 years old.
But the Corps has no plans to halt the natural process.
process. That is because the lake will have passed its cost-benefit life expectancy by then, Corps officials say.
A COST-BENEFIT life expectancy is the projected time period needed to recover the cost of the lake's construction through the benefits it provides, according to Walt Linder, chief of hydrological engineers at the Kansas City district office of the Corps.
Besides recreation, Clinton Lake provides Lawrence with flood control along the Wakarusa River and is a primary water supply. The Kansas River is Lawrence's secondary supply.
Most Corps-designed lakes in Kansas were built after World War II, and have cost-benefit life expectancies of 100 years. Linder said. However, the lakes will continue to provide flood control and water supply benefits after that period, he said.
because the man-made lakes in Kansas are relatively new, the Corps has not dealt with a
completely staffed.
MIKE CAREY, supervisor of outdoor recreation planning for the Corps in Kansas City, said that a partial silting problem had developed about five years ago in one section of Tuttle Creek Reservoir near Manhattan.
completely silted-in lake yet
Rivercreek said that the Corps did move some small park areas from near the silted area to another part of the reservoir. Tuttle Creek was about 25 years old at the time.
years old at the time. However, complete dredging of a lake would probably not be cost-effective, Carey said. Other Corps officials agree.
Corps officials say, "Dredging is not in the contingency plans for Clinton Lake," said Victor Counts, Clinton project manager for the Corps.
However, that project was necessary because of failure in a dam outlet, Linder said. The dredging was done because the lake had to be drained anyway, he said.
Lone Star Lake, a state lake about 15 miles southwest of Lawrence, was recently drained and dredged
BECAUSE THE NATURAL reclamation process takes so long to complete, the effects of the lake's gradual loss are not immediately noticeable.
"People aren't aware of it until they notice a change, like water becoming shallower," said Steve Hawks, northeast regional fisheries supervisor for the Kansas Fish and Game Commission. The commission stocks fish in Clinton and other lakes
Hawks said that the natural succession of a lake's change — from lake to swamp to upland area — was best left alone. He agreed that a dredging operation would be too costly.
Hawks said that the commission changed its management techniques as a lake was reclaimed by nature. For instance, species of fish better suited to shallow water are gradually stocked in such lakes.
Here's what the critics say about the Royal Peking Restaurant
Chinese Food: Taster's Delight
From the pages of the Wichita Beacon:
By M.F. West
Wichita Beacon staff
The fall football season is here again and many of you Wichitans will be making the journey north to the University of Kansas for the
While you're in Lawrence, you should try the cuisine of the Royal Peking Restaurant at 711 W. 32rd.
and for four.
The latter we began with the won
For $8 a person the chef will prepare "The President's Dinner" on behalf of Richard Nixon on his break through journey to China. Individual dishes on the card run from 40 cents to eight egg dinner for two and in some areas in the $3 to $4 range. On recent family occasions we enjoyed both the dinners for three
Peng
The Chinese proprietor — we've been told the family came to Lawrence from Tama, for two, for three, for four and for five or more.
hot soup, which was brought to table only moments after we'd ordered and our tea been poured. We had the crispy bacon and the Royal Peking provides two for the dollar with both a hot mustard sauce and a slightly sweet clear sauce. The crispy bacon is crispy done. The pork kits in the filling are well done but retain delicacy flavor while the crisp and may be served on the call only hint of being cooked.
We hardly had finished soup and roll when the main dishes arrived: a crispy fried oyster sauce, a substantially priiced oyster sauce, bite-size pieces of chicken prepared with mushrooms and vegetables including bamboo shoots, the Royal Bamboo shoot served in medium size with a rich orange sauce and sweet and sour pork.
On the latest visit to the restaurant (which is almost hidden in the shopping center on 32rd street next door) I sat down for dinner for three, beginning with hot and sour soup — very hot — and egg rols and preceding with fried rice and three main dishes mongolian and pepper (pepper which was precisely touched by heat of cooking but without being either cooked or raw) and a sweet sauce like dishes in the other dinner but with some subtle differences. The net result of both evenings was a dining experience that was both enjoyable and considerate guaitary satisfaction.
While tastes are difficult to describe to others, it may be enough to say that each of these dishes is a savory tasting experience in itself.
The Royal Peking decor is modest with wall hangings and lamps to suggest Oriental charac-
teristics. It is always overpower the pleasure of dining.
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