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By Raelean Finch Special to the Journal-World
The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department has trucked more than 1 million gallons of potable water to saplings, grass and flowers in medians, roundabouts and the like throughout the city this summer. “We have four trucks hauling 1,000 gallons of water each,” said Mark Hecker, the department’s assistant director. “They probably fill up four or five times a day, depending on the weather.” Soon those trucks will pull up next to the wastewater treatment facility in east Lawrence instead of a fire hydrant. There, the trucks’ tanks will be filled with effluent, or treated, wastewater instead of potable water. The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment recently approved a plan developed jointly by city’s parks and utilities departments to integrate effluent water from the wastewater treatment facility into the city’s irrigation plan, said Jeanette Klamm, the city’s utilities program manager. “This is something we’ve had on the shelf for years,” Klamm said. “The drought this summer has spurred us into action and allowed us to get this approved pretty quickly.” Lawrence isn’t the only city recycling wastewater. Wichita pumps effluent Please see WATER, page 7A
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PROFESSOR EMERITUS TOM ARMSTRONG, LEFT, HOLDS A MODEL OF A SATELLITE while Dr. Jerry Manweiler handles a model of a device their company, Fundamental Technologies, makes that is mounted on the satellite that measures radiation rings around the Earth and how it affects cellphones. ABOVE, an image provided by the AP and NASA shows an image taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft of a volcanic plume on the Jupiter moon Io. Voyager 1 is poised to soon leave the solar system.
Spacecraft close to leaving solar system By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
Tom Armstrong is preparing to leave this solar system. At the moment, you couldn’t tell. He sits in his modest Lawrence office surrounded by a few scribbles on a white board, piles of NASA promotional materials for elementary schools, and a Lego model of a spaceship. But about 11 billion miles
from here, there’s another spaceship. Voyager 1, launched 35 years ago this month, is creating heart palpitations in the community of space plasma physicists, of which Armstrong belongs. Data being sent back from Voyager, essentially big dips on a line graph, suggest the spacecraft is very close to becoming the first man-made object to ever leave our solar system. When it does, it will have
Tom Armstrong’s name on it. Armstrong, a professor of physics at Kansas University from 1968 to 2003, had the “great fortune” of studying with one of the generation’s leading space scientists, James Van Allen at the University of Iowa. In the 1960s, Van Allen and a group of his graduate students were among the more vocal supporters of an idea for NASA to Please see SPACE, page 7A
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In a move that immediately benefits The World Company and in the long run creates exciting possibilities for downtown Lawrence, the JournalWorld, the city’s leading news organization, is consolidating most of its staff and operations from two buildings into one.
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Journal-World and Sunflower Publishing are moving this weekend and Monday from 609 N.H. to 645 N.H., into the building that once was a post office and in recent years has been known as the News Center. So starting Monday, please use our entrance on Seventh Street. “We all need to be in the Please see MOVE, page 2A
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One year ago, 25-year-old Dani Higgins, of Wichita, lost her health insurance when her father was laid off from his job. Higgins, who has been unemployed for 18 months, said she has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and needs a medication to get through each day. “It’s hard for me to go to the doctor, let alone get the prescription,” she said. She’s glad that she can use a Kansas Drug Card that provides discounts of up to 75 percent on brand name and generic medications, with the average savings around 30 percent. “It has saved me a lot of money,” she said. Higgins said she also has used it for antibiotics and pain medications, and estimated it has saved between $12 and $50 per medicine. Higgins said her mother, who is uninsured, uses the Please see CARD, page 2A
Saturday’s classifieds section in today’s paper Because of an insertion error, the classifieds section was omitted from Saturday’s Lawrence Journal-World. That section is included in today’s edition. We regret the error, and we apologize to our readers, subscribers and advertisers. Thank you for your understanding.
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