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as 75 million gallons per day.
"If we had a mil hot, dry spoil and a lot of
people were watering their lawns, the use would
go up," King said.
Eugene has become an oasis In a slate ravaged
by drought.
The Eugene Airport has rocordixf 40.46 inches
of precipitation since last October — only three
inches below normal.
But other parts of the state haven’t been so
lucky.
Nineteen counties in Eastern and Southern Or
egon have declared drought emergencies.
Clackamas and Multnomah counties may be
come the first Western Oregon counties to de
clare drought emergencies.
In Portland, outdoor water usage has become a
crime, with offenders facing stiff money penal
ties.
EWEB public information manager Tom San
tee said Portland's water woes are due to the In
ability of its system to filter sediment from the
water supply.
"Portland doesn't have a water filtration
plant," Santee said. "They tan only draw water
down to certain point before sediment gets into it
and water quality goes down."
Eugene can filter the water it draws from the
Mackenzie River. In addition, the system has
been gradually expanded to keep up with de
mand.
"Eugene ha* always had community support
to expand the system to moot demand." King
said
Since It was built In 1954. the Mackenzie
plant's capacity has been expanded twice, ontre
in 19fi8 and again in 1978 The current capacity
of 75 million gallons per day is still far below the
plant's 200 million gallon usage right to the riv
er.
Eugene's water supply is also buffer™! by the
Blue Kiver and Cougar reservoirs, which are op
erated by the Army Corps of Engineers
But ev«>n though Eugene may be the soggiest
city In Oregon, it is now in the process of devel
oping a water curtailment plan as per the Oregon
Water Resources Commission's orders Last
month, the commission told all cities with popu
lations of more than 10.000 to develop strategies
to cope with potential water shortages
"It's just to get on record a strategy, should
that sort of thing bo necessary." Santee said
"But our local water system is healthy, and we re
not foreseeing anv shortage."
The plan, which must !>c submitted by the end
of August, will provide guidelines for phasing In
water restrictions If it is ever implemented, peo
ple will be asked to voluntarily reduce water use
until dwindling water supplies force mandatory
compliance
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the visionary interactive computer-driven system that is able to re
produce digital images of groat art.
Their lecture, "Tomorrow’s Computer and Yesterday's Art. " is
set for Doc. 11.
• Neill Archer Roan, new executive vice president of tho Center for
the Arts in Escondido. Calif., and former marketing and program
ming director for Eugene's Hull Center. Roan is a leader in arts ad
ministration and policy, and masters of arts programming and mar
keting. . . . .
His speech. "Somo of My Best Friends Are Artists.” is scheduled
for Jan. 8.
• Mason Wiley, co-author of Inside Oscar — The Unofficial History
of the Academy Awards and contributor to Entertainment Weekly.
TV Guide, GQ. The New York Times and New York Daily News.
Wiley will tako the audience Inside tho Oscars for an evening of
facts, trivia, trash and gossip.
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Oscars but
Were Too Polite to Ask.” is set for March 26.
For more information, call the Museum of Art at 346-3027.
Astronauts bnng in satellite
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NAVERAL.
Fla. (AP) —
Atlantis' as
tronauts cleared a snug In a
cord linking a satellite to the
shuttle Wednesday and safo
ly reeled the scientific craft
Into the cargo bay. averting
the need for an emergency
spacewalk.
The half-ton metal ball slid
neatly into its docking ring
on the four-story tower in the
shuttle cargo bay and was se
cured.
“The Dream Team has
nothing on you. You hit the
hoop.” Mission Control told
the astronauts.
It took an hour for the as
tronauts to gingerly reel in
the satellite from 750 feet
away. During that time. At
lantis traveled more than
halfway around the world.
Two of the astronauts had
been preparing to venture
outside Thursday, If neces
sary, in an attempt to untan
gle tho tether und save this
satellite. They breathed pure
oxygon to purgo their bh>od
of nitrogen, which can cause
the painful condition known
to divers as the hends.
Tho satellite had flown
above Atlantis for 24 hours,
never going higher than 850
feet on the tether - far short
of tho 12 -mile target. It had
gotten stuck 750 feet above
the shuttle Wednesday be
cause of the jammod cord.
Flight directors, hoping to
free tne jammod line without
a risky spacewalk, had tho
crew pop tho clutch on a mo
tor that guides the tether at
the end of a four-story tower
in the shuttle's cargo bay.
Tho tether never moved.
The astronauts, working
controls inside the shuttle,
then slightly lowored the
tower and raised It back up
to try to tug the snag loose
near the motor. That worked.
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The luminaries are small,
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