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Wednesday, November 30, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Waste hazards remain at KU, official says
By Jeremy Kohn Kansan staff writer
Ten waste control violations at the University of Kansas in February 1986 have been corrected, but some potential hazards still remain, a University waste control official said Monday.
we're getting more waste material, and we're doing a better job of educating the University community about what hazardous waste is," said Steven Cater, KU environmental health and safety officer. "It's better because we don't have the waste sitting around the laboratories."
Still, some potentially dangerous conditions exist.
Sale is somewhat dangerous conditions exist. Waste is regularly collected from the chemistry departments involved in photography. The toxic chemicals are sorted into 55-gallon barrels and sent to a trailer on West Campus. The maximum number of barrels in the trailer has been 25. Cater said.
Cold temperatures cause the liquid waste to freeze, which could crack the barrels, he said.
"The traiter meets the legal requirements, but it is not the optimum," he said. "I don't think it's a threat to anything, but I would hate to think of it as a long-term solution."
Cater was hired in November 1986 to supervise waste control procedures that KU accepted in July 1986, five months after a state agency found 10 waste control violations.
John Goetz, chief of hazardous waste for the state bureau of waste management, said the violations were corrected. There have been no formal investigations since.
Goetz said the University's infractions included:
not accounting for all waste.
- disposal of some flammable material in garbage cans at Learned Hall.
not labeling some waste containers.
- not providing hazardous waste placards to mount on disposal trucks.
- lack of proper training for all University workers who handled waste.
- insufficient waste storage space.
- no contingency plans for accidents where waste was handled and stored.
- ■ mixing of solid waste with waste oil by facility operations workers.
- no proof of the city's permission to dispose of some chemicals in the city's sewage system
According to records from the chancellor's office, Cancellor Gene A. Budig on July 18, 1986, approved "Hazardous Waste Regulation and Recommendations for the Lawrence Campus," a report that systematized hazardous waste procedures for the University. The report took several years to complete and was reviewed by the University Biohazards Committee and state officials before the chancellor approved it.
John Landgrebe, professor of chemistry and then head of the committee, was the report's primary author. He said that University was not properly controlling its waste and had no formal program for its collection and disposal.
"A lot of the stuff was disposed of in willy-nily ways." Landrebe said Monday.
State regulations require that waste be stored at the University for no more than 90 days. KU's waste is transported three times annually to an incinerator in Kansas, where it is burned or fuel is sent to a kiln in southeastern Kansas.
Cater said about 5.9 tons of waste were collected last year, a 8.9 ton increase from 1986.
Bob Bearse, associate vice chancellor for research. graduate studies and public service, said $60,000 to $70,000 was spent last year for waste disposal.
Since 1985, KU has steadily produced more hazardous waste each year. Most of the waste material is stored on West Campus before being sent to East St. Louis, Ill., where it is
A growing problem
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KJHK board to decide on manager
Janet Cinelli, board member and Overland Park junior, said seven applicants were interviewed by the university only two or three students apply.
By a Kansan reporter
The board of directors for KJKHF interviewed applicants for next semester's station manager position yesterday and will probably make their decision by the end of today, a board member said yesterday.
The station manager oversees the station's operation, chooses the staff and is responsible to the board. According to board information from April 1988, the station manager must be enrolled in at least six hours of graduate or 12 hours of undergraduate classes, have at least a 3.0 grade point average and have a year of radio experience.
Members of the board are Mike Kautsch, chairman and dean of journalism; John Katch, faculty representative and assistant professor of journalism; Max Utsler, chairman of radio and television; Dawn Abrahamson, Student Senate representative; Cinelli, broadcast students' representative; and Jerry Howard, station manager.
Howard, Topeka graduate student,
is a board member but will not vote
for the next station manager because
he has reapplied for the position.
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