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14 FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2005 UNC officials brief residents on waste Discuss $10.4M cleaning of site BY BRIAN HUDSON SENIOR WRITER University officials briefed con cerned Chapel Hill residents about efforts to clean up a 0.2-acre waste disposal site located near the Horace Williams tract. Between 1973 and 1979, UNC officials buried the chemical waste generated by campus laboratories and the former N.C. Memorial Hospital on the site. Propelled by the University’s plans to build a satellite campus on the tract, the clean-up process began in November 2003, when UNC signed a voluntary agreement with the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources. “We are taking these steps even though the University is under no state or federal order that requires mediation,” said Peter Reinhardt, director of UNC’s Department of Environment, Health and Safety, on Thursday. The waste disposal area would not be sanctioned by today’s stan dards, but the site was construct ed according to state and federal regulations in the 19705, said Jim Shilliday, a senior scientist with UNC consultant Arcadis Inc., which has been charged with overseeing the estimated $ 10.4-million clean up of the disposal site by 2012. The site is located south of Crow Branch Creek near Municipal Drive. The agreement mandates that University officials inform the public of the clean-up process and hear any comments or concerns. During the meeting, Shilliday r „ Passionate about your work and your life? Bon Secours Hampton Roads is a place where you can impact the lives of others while living out your own personal dreams. We call it "Nursing at its best." We're focusing on personalized care, national standards for quality and best-in-class cardiovascular, cancer, surgery and women's programs. 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But testing of area surface waters indicated a level of chemicals far below federal drinking water standards, and there has been no human exposure, Shilliday said. The volume of the creek kept the chemicals'from hitting threatening levels by the time they reached the surface. “You’re diluting out some of these of these compounds,” Shilliday said. “So you wouldn’t necessarily expect to see the con centrations in the surface water.” Arcadis will purify the ground water, and the clean up will com pletely remove the chemicals from the disposal site, he said. About a dozen area residents attended the meeting and asked questions about the clean up and the leak. A few worried about other local disposal sites and possible leaks. But Reinhardt said tests ruled out a chemical leak at the one other disposal site near the tract. A1 Burk, who lives near the tract, said the meeting abated any con cerns. “It looked like it was being done pretty professionally.” Burk, a member of the Horace Williams Citizens Committee, said the situation does not sound threatening. “We’re just continuing to monitor the situation.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. Day to celebrate town s history Carrboro embraces unique festival BY EREN TATARAGASI STAFF WRITER Since 1996, Carrboro has dedi cated May 1 to celebrating itself. Carrboro Day is set aside every year to take note of all the unique qualities that make the town special. This year’s event will be held from 12:45 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Town Commons. Carrboro Day is the brainchild of Aldermen Jacquelyn Gist and attorney and Carrboro resident Jay Bryan. The concept was created as both sat in Bryan’s living room almost 10 years ago. “The idea was born in old Carrboro,” Gist said. “As the population of Carrboro grows, we want people to know they are in a community that has a history and identity,” she added. Carrboro, settled in 1882 around a University railroad spur, was first known as West End because it sits west of Chapel Hill. Incorporated in 1911 as Venable, the town made its final name change two years later in honor of Julian Shakespeare Carr, owner of a local textile mill. Unlike Hillsborough’s Hog Day and Chapel Hill’s Apple Chill, Carrboro Day is a noncommercial event that gives residents a chance to get to know one another. “Having the commercial aspect in Carrboro Day would dilute the essence of the day,” Bryan said. Sean Sunkel, town recreation and parks supervisor of special events, emphasized that the event is resident-run. “Carrboro Day is a citizen com mittee-run event. This event is run for the citizens of Carrboro, by the citizens of Carrboro,” he said. Sunkel’s role in the event News involves providing logistical sup port and overseeing the budget, public safety and purchasing. All the action will take place in one central location so participants have a greater opportunity to inter act with one another and are not dispersed too widely. The only items that will be on sale at the event are hot dogs and lemonade. Proceeds will go to sup port the newly opened Carrboro branch library, the Cybrary. This year there will be 11 bands playing everything from jazz to county. And as always, there will be games, crafts, poetry and a picnic. “Each aspect of the day is special and worth being a part of,” Bryan added. This year, there also will be mov ies and pictures on display detail ing the town’s history. Other events will include a per formance by Bull City Gymnastics, an appearance by “Mother Goose” and family folk dancing. 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And as the guidelines' for Carrboro Day state, “Bring a chair or blanket, a picnic for dinner and bask in all that’s good about Carrboro.” The day will close, as always, By Arlan & Linda Bushman 66 Pull (for) 67 Son of Seth 68 Fowl perch 69 Showy blooms, for short 70 Singer Lovett 71 Jazz section DOWN 1 Implied 2 Please mightily 3 Courthouse surrender site 4 Fidel confidant 5 Valerie or Tess 6 Steer clear of 7 Benevolent 8 Linguistic quirk 9 British Egyptologist 10 Mountain shaper 11 Restrain 12 Hawaiian seaport 13 Cameo stone 22 Game setting 23 Tack on 25 In favor of 28 Evening in Roma 29 Tread heavily 31 Not by the book 32 Ashram figure 33 "Java" trumpeter 34 Expansive 35 Vocalist James 37 Olfactory prod 40 Miff 41 University of Maine town 7 9~TBBno“ 11 12 13 ” |||L - ||jjfc IT ‘ 22 I 23 25 ■MH ■l? 4 28 3 35 ■■36 3^TBj3B 33 ■■ 43 44 ■■46 56 52 58 59 IHT 82 ■■63 WaT- 65 n ■ ~ " H*t" BBp " L 1 ■ I M I 1 I M I I I—ijli (Effp Daily (Ear Hrri with the traditional spraydown by the Carrboro Fire Department. “That’s my favorite part,” Gist said. “Carrboro is my obsession, so it’s just a really neat day.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. (C)2005 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. 44 Shrinking flowers? 46 Tom Hanks movie 48 Follow-up movie 50 Repairmen 52 Inclined to flow 54 The ones here 55 Arranges by category 56 Cultivate 57 Moises or Felipe of baseball 58 Tower (over) 59 False god 60 Prow 65 Mauna volcano
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