UNIVERSITY
World on His Shoulders
Brad Nile gives his son Richard a piggyback riile un
der cloudy skies Tuesday as hi' walks down 13th A vc
nue. Today's forecast is for rain at times, with highs in
the mid to upper 4()s.
Photo by |ohn Stoops
Research park test results are in
By Tammy Batey
Emerald Reporter
No dangerous compounds
have vet been found in the soil
of the Riverfront Research Park
site, hut other test results in
volving paint waste are not ex
peeled for a few weeks.
Physical Plant personnel re
i eived the results from the soil
samples last week, said Diane
Wiley. University project repre
sentative No dangerous com
pounds were found in the soil
samples but results from anal
ysis of some paint waste are not
expected for .1 few more weeks
The results of the paint tests
are important because they will
determine how the paint
should be disposed of, Wiley
said
However, "*i greater concern
for tin- University is environ
mental." she Saul "Is there re
sidual contamination?"
L K S()uier Assoc'idles lot of
Like Oswego, the University's
environmental consultants, did
testing on four parcels of land
at the research park site a year
ago. VVilev said Another con
sulting firm. t lentei hn i
cal Knvironmental. consulting
then made recommendations
The leseari h park, a coopera
live effort between the Unuer
sit\ and the city of Kugene, w ill
house firms and companies in
voiced in projei Is complement
ing University research
Kmplovees of the I..K Stpuer
firm discovered a crushed bar
rel containing u tleer cart ass on
tin) Silva On hard pan cl. U’ilcy
s,ml because ol this discovery,
the environmental consultants
swept over the entire western
portion ol the orchard with
metal detectors last spring
The consultants discovered
other construction debris, in
cluding steel cable and paint
waste. whit h was attributed to
campus construction
University personnel soon
learned th.it the region had
Ireen a barrel pit in the late '70s
and early litis and some soil
was "obviously rontamiuat
ed." Wiley said Nineteen test
pits equaling about It) cubit
yards were extavated, and the
soil beneath examined
Parking
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to inert with the ASl'O to see how students
might lie worked into the program
Oliver s.iid she believes it will he possible
for students to he im orporated into the pro
gram.
One concern aliout the reiinhursement
program is that people will turn in their per
mits take the refund but continue to drive to
campus, parking in neighlwirhonds near cam
pus, Oliver said.
The University is taking into considera
tion the effects of the proposals on the sur
rounding neighborhoods, she said "We want
to make sure that we are not just moving the
problem into somebody else's lap
Oliver said the part of the package she
finds most appealing is the proposal tor a cam
pus shnllli' system. which would .illttviuti* tIn
parking problem in two wavs
I list, she said. it would ln'l|i distribute
i .ns .it parking spots throughout tIn* I'nivrrsi
tv tree ause people < mild park tart her from the
i outer ol c atiipus and still got to their destina
lion quir kly and easily
Second. it would encourage more people
to lake the bus. as they could ride LTD to east
t ainpus bus slops and then take the shuttle to
any part of campus, without having to walk.
Oliver said
Rd Bergeron, a task force member and
LTD employee, said his co-workers are opti
mistic about the proposals
' They seem to make more intensive use
out of space on campus." he said "It makes
sense to make use of the resources that are al
ready there
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