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The Red and Black • Thursday. July 19, 1990 * 3
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust: not at UGA
By JULIE l XRNELL
Contributing Writer
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust —
but not at the University, which
no longer has an ash pit.
For the past 20 to 30 years, fly
ash from the Physical Plant’s
steam plant haR been deposited
at the ash pit located below the
four towers off River Road.
New regulations by the De
artment of Natural Resources
ave forced Physical Plant to
change the ash pit to an inert
landfill.
Any ash produced from the
Physical Plant’s steam plant will
be sent to the Clarke County
landfill at a cost of $10 per ton,
adding up to about $50 a week.
Fly ash is created by the bur
ning of low sulphur coal. This
process provides an efficient
means of energy for heating
water, and heating and cooling
University buildings.
In March 1990 a complaint
was filed with the DNR re
garding the ash pit. The main
concern surrounding the ash pit
was the danger of a hazardous
leachate being produced. A lea
chate results from water flowing
through the landfill causing haz
ardous materials to leach into the
water system and soil.
In response to the complaint,
DNR Program Manager James
Dunbar sent a letter to the Uni
versity’s Physical Plant ex
plaining that a permit is needed
to maintain an ash pit, a form of
solid waste disposal. This forced
the University to suspend opera
tions at the four towers for about
five weeks while officials deter
mined the type of permit needed
and made changes in the area.
Afl«*r review ; ng costs, the
Physical Plant decided that the
ash pit should be changed to an
inert landfill. This is a less ex
pensive form of solid waste dis
posal, even counting the cost of
transporting ash to the county
landfill.
Materials sent to the Physical
Plant landfill are now limited to
inert materials, including rock,
soil, dirt, concrete, rubble, wood
stumps, limbs, brick, blocks and
grass clippings from campus
Chip Semeriian, Physical
Plant assistant director, said the
ash pit would be more expensive
to maintain than an inert landfill
because extensive changes would
have to be made. He didn’t have
specific figures.
Changes that would bring the
ash pit in line with DNR regula
tions include:
• An efTort to prevent large
volumes of rain water from car
rying any leachate away from the
trench of the ash pit.
Materials sent to the
Physical Plant landfill
are now limited to
inert materials,
including rock, soil,
dirt, concrete, rubble,
wood stumps, limbs,
brick, blocks and
grass clippings from
campus
• Constant monitoring of the
ash pit.
• Special burying procedures.
• Plastic covering.
An alternative to the county
landfill the construction of a new
site that would meet the DNR’s
specifications. However, new en
vironmental laws and regula
tions make the cost of that option
too high, also.
“We decided that due to the
fast-changing costs of landfills, it
would not be practical at this
time to develop our own landfill
for ash,” Semeijian said.
Changes made at the site in
clude:
• Addition of a fence and gate
and contouring of the sur
rounding area.
• Coverage of discarded
materials with a layer of clean
dirt biweekly.
• Bimonthly inspections of the
inert landfill by Physical Plant
personnel.
• Periodic, unannounced in
spections by state officials.
Dexter Adams, Physical Plant
grounds manager, cited the costs
of the fencing and gating at ap
proximately $1,500. Adams
didn’t know the cost of the con
touring.
The project is an additional
coRt but one that is worth it, Se-
merjian said, because there are
no hazardous materials or chemi
cally treated objects that would
produce a hazardous leachate in
the inert landfill.
Adams said, “As I understand
it, it does not produce a haz
ardous leachate.”
Dunbar has declared the site
safe. The area has been inspected
by the DNR, and the University
has secured a permit to operate
as an inert landfill.
Physical Plant personnel said
they’re genuinely concerned with
providing an environmentally
safe means of disposing waste.
“We are supportive of actions
to support a clean environment,”
Semeijian said.
Student locator lets computers do the walking
Shorts lead to stolen food
Empty refrigerators are common
for students, but when Joseph
Johnson and Bruce Bergstrom
found theirs barren, they sus
pected criminal activity.
“We came home last Friday and
found all our food gone,” said
Bergstrom, a junior English major
from Roswell.
The following morning he saw a
man he didn’t know standing in
front of their food-less apartment
on Grady Avenue wearing a pair of
Bergstrom’s shorts, he said.
“I didn’t even know the shorts
were gone until I saw him wearing
them,” he said.
Bergstrom and Johnson followed
the man wearing the hot shorts to
an apartment nearby. After they
saw the man go into an apartment,
they called the police.
Timothy Riley, 24, was arrested
on burglary charges at 130 Grady
Ave.
Unfortunately for the students,
the hungry thief had already con
sumed most of his heist.
“My roommate got back some of
his ground beef and cold cuts, but I
didn’t really get any of my food
back,” Bergstrom said.
Although only food and clothing
were stolen, Hilda Spratlin, assis
tant public information officer with
the Athens Police Department,
said,“A burglary is a burglary; it
doesn’t matter if it’s $1 or $100.”
— Dan Pool
■ Loggerhead Turtle Nestings
Howard Fora/The Red and Black
By JIM SKAW
Contributing Writer
For a good time, call 542-3000.
That’s the Student Locator, which has helped
students, faculty and staff locate other stu
dents, faculty and staff ever since Alexander
Graham Bell asked the eternal question, “Now,
where did I put that phone number?”
Well, not that long, but longer than most
people can remember.
Once operated out of Creswell Hall, the Stu
dent Locator has called many sites home. Be
fore modem technology intervened, operators
had to search files manually to find numbers,
but today they rely on an advanced computer
system installed three years ago.
Operator Helen Adams said, “At first the
new computer system was hard to adjust to, but
Tom Lapczynski, our supervisor, helped us
through it.”
One complaint Adams has is that many stu
dents expect the operators to know everything
about the University, including how to get to
their classes and where classes are held.
Students sometimes get angry at the opera
tors, she said, when numbers are unlisted or
when operators (for security reasons) don’t di
vulge complete addresses.
On the other hand, some students complain
that each time they call a recording advising
tells them they’re in line for an operator. Actu
ally, this recording, used to count calls received,
is activated for every call. With calls sometimes
numbering 100 or more an hour — with only
three operators to answer —the system some
times gets backlogged.
Peak hours are Monday through Friday from
2 p.m. to 7 a.m., and fall is the busiest season
for the service.
The Locator takes calls from 7:30 a.m. to
12:30 a.m. Monday to Saturday, and Sundays
from 3:30 in the afternoon until midnight.
Administrative Services is responsible for
the operation of the line, spending nearly $100,-
000 a year to keep the service running. Most of
the budget goes toward paying the operators’
salaries.
Phone numbers are obtained from a data
base at Student Affairs through the Personnel
Services Division. All dorm phone numbers are
in the data base, as are all freshmen’s numbers
and addresses, if the information was provided
at registration.
Faculty and staff usually give only their of
fice numbers, fearing loss of privacy and prank
calls.
Problems occur when students move off
campus and don’t fill out new telephone
number forms, which may be obtained at the
Tate Student Center information desk. To have
a number listed in directory assistance, a stu
dent must fill out the form and return it to the
registrar’s office.
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The committee has concluded
that fishing trawlers kill at least
11,000 sea turtles a year, but in
our state the majority of fishermen
are willing to use turtle excluder
devices on their trawlers.
A TED is a shrimp net that al
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while retaining shrimp inside the
net.
“We don’t have the non-compli
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the Texas coast and in other
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have had TEDs for generations,
but state agencies did nothing to
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“Why does an issue have to go to
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Sweat said Sea Island usually
averages 20 nesting sites in a
season and 60 already have been
counted this year.
Richardson said the number of
nesting sites are up from last
year’s count of 24. But he pointed
out that most turtles nest every
two or three years, so next year’s
number is expected to drop.
Although this year’s nesting
season is giving biologists reason
for hope, no one knows for sure if
this can be attributed to the TEDs.
Sweat said, “Fishermen carried
TEDs last year, and we didn’t see a
difference.
Richardson said he hopes this
problem will encourage everyone to
observe their personal responsi-
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“If you saw a turtle crawling
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