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Show University Journal Page 6 Wednesday, August 21, 2002 ' N - 1 ! Serving Farrs hard ice crccrn Fast, full line pharmacy V Speciality compounding pharmacy t Jelly Polly candy Largest Carlton Ccrd Collection in So, Utah j J j SUU invests in plan Or Get $1 Off a Milkshake 1 Main Cedar City 586-965- CM ! I j I Evan Vickers, R. Ph. - Mon.-Fr- i. j to save money, water j By DEBORAH PERRY . 1 9 a.m. 7 p.m Sat. Open 9 a.m. 9 p.m One coupon pxer item. Coupon must be presented. - the university is cooperating with Cedar City to sink a new well that could limit the amount of culinary water used to irrigate lawns and athletic fields on campus. i Buy One Get One Free Ice Cream Cone 91 N. university journal systems at most large institutions, SUU sprinklers often water as much concrete as grass. As southern Utah enters its fourth year of a projected eight-yea- r drought, Like irrigation - i i anne McConnell ? i j UNIVERSITY JOURNAL SUU donated $200,000 to Cedar City for the construction of a new water well this year The donated money was borrowed from the Division of Facility Construction Management, said Dean ODriscoll, assistant to the president for university relations. (DFCM) has an energy saving program that looks for ways to save money, he said DFCM looked at all projects in the state, and ours was the best in the state. As part of the contract for the donation, the city will give SUU a reduced rate for irrigation water, ODriscoll said. ODriscoll said the original water rate was 87 cents per 1,000 gallons of irrigation water The new rate will be 37 cents per 1,000 gallons of irrigation water and two million gallons of irrigation water a year are used to water the campus. SUU would pay $73,950 a year using the old price; with the new price, SUU wilt decrease. pay $31,450 a year, a Apart from saving $42,500 a year, SUU also has invested $75,000 in an irrigation system to conserve water, ODriscoll said SUU is the No. 1 water user in Cedar City, said Mary Blackner, Cedar City Water Department billing clerk. The Iron County School District is second. The next group of major water users is the industrial companies. Examples of die industrial companies include Metalcraft Technologies, Gore Manufacturing and Western Quality Foods, Blackner said. These are just examples of the heavier industrial users, Blackner said In an effort to conserve water, SUU Physical One-hundre- Plant personnel installed a computerized watering system in May 2001. The system involves 38 irrigation clocks, a main computer and a weather station on campus, said Paul Snyder, landscape specialist. Snyder said the system has saved somewhere between 25 to 30 percent of the water used on campus. We have led the southern end of the state in water conservation for the last four years, he said. 02 1 use the well. The city shut the well down for repairs Aug 14. Logically, I would contnbute the bearing failure to the lubrication malfunction, Smith said i. irrigation program Snyder said this program calculates where water is needed and how much much water is needed based on weather weadier station. information from die Snyder said the weather station calculates solar radiation, temperature, rainfall, wind direction and speed, humidity and wind run. With Maxicom, it puts down what the plants said Chris Gale, need and no more, superintendent of grounds. Gale said before the system was installed grounds keepers went to each irrigation clock to turn it manually off when it rained. This process often lasted four hours, he said. Now the computer automatically shuts the irrigation clocks off when it rains, saving manpower hours. It has freed up people to do other things, he said. happen again. Craig Perkins IS Continued from Page ' SUUs Rainbird Maxicom irrigation program employs 38 clocks and a weather station on campus to provide the precise amount of water needed to keep lawns green while conserving water and manpower. The irrigation clocks are connected to a modem which is connected to the main computer The computer runs a Rainbird Maxicom He said the loss of oil is being attributed to an improper valve the size of a thumb previously installed Weve just discovered that someone had installed an improver valve, Smith said. If someone even just brushes up against it - that can change the settings We think someone brushed against this valve and opened it all die way. The repairs are scheduled for Tuesday evening, Smith said. We dont know yet (the cost), but somewhere between $10,000 to $12,000, he said. Were going to review our site inspection procedures so that something like this doesnt and Chet Perkins from Rhodes Brothers Pump, Sales and Service were hired by tine city to fix the well. The well was supposed to be up (Aug. 17), Smith said It is not hack up, due to some shipping problems. The well is one of the main wells used by the city, said Paul Klein, public works inspector for Cedar City Smith said the well delivers 23 percent of the delivery capacity Klein said there didnt have to be any adjustments to the other wells. The wells are running at capacity no other adjustments (need to be) made, Klein said. Although there were no adjustments made to the citys wells, the public was asked not to water outside for the duration of the repairs. Outside watering accounts for 60 percent of water use, Smith said. The shut down only took a few minutes instead of four hours, said Chris Gale, SUU grounds manager Gale said the grounds crew the flower beds, die most severely stressed ports of campus lawns and new sod diat had been laid during doe water restrictions. We shut down because we were one of the biggest wa.er users in the city, said Dean hand-watere- ODriscoll, president relations assistant to the for unnersity SUU used some 102 million gallons of waiter last )ear for the landscaping We would pull enough culinary water otf to ailect the city supply, O Driscoll said He said the cost of not watering the grounds has not been calculated yet We dont know (how much n will cost), it depends on how much plants or grass we lose," he saicl If everybody sta s of! die lawn, diat will help. But six days in this heat; we are expecting the campus to look die worst it has ever looked |