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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1978)
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Shej that she wjsjb ; odd jobs is male she bj a also depenM to keep then free time to I ggestedh immunity i ties could bed pe with diffij such s s, deal sped r the divorce; very group] d what is lug wards said! ^isolation isi ; and findiffl are expend illCf , thisistruel Profits go for repairs Texas A&M to supply C.S. with water for 4 years By MARK PERRIN ’raverse the desert, and then ye can tell [What treasures exist in the cold deep well, link in despair on the red parch’d earth, [And then ye may reckon what water is worth. — Miss Eliza Cook The worth of the water system jatTexas A&M University is hard to measure because water is kupplied to on-campus residents and many College Station resi dents. But the water system’s profits ran be measured and in the fiscal year ending in August, there was a net profit of $126,574, exclud ing heated or chilled water. The profit was measured by helling water to College Station hnd to dormitories. The water system also pro duced over 1.9 billion gallons of jwater last fiscal year, according lo the financial report of Univer sity Utilities in the Texas A&M controller’s office. I If the requirements of Texas double, the present water system, with no additional ex pansion, could meet the de mand. ! All of the water is produced by Texas A&M’s nine wells which pan pump 11 million gallons of water a day. When an additional well is completed in the fall of 1979, the pumping capacity will be 14 million gallons a day. | Last year, between 5 million and 6 million gallons were used on the Texas A&M campus each day. About one-third of all the water used on campus was used by the utility plant. Because Texas A&M’s water supply is greater than its de mand, it has been able to sell water to College Station since 1972. Bennie Luedke, water and sewer superintendent for Col lege Station, said the city buys 1 million to 1.5 million gallons a day. He said that in January 1979, College Station’s water buying contract with Bryan expires. Col lege Station will then start buy ing most of its water from Texas A&M. Luedke said the city is still negotiating a contract with Bryan to buy a small amount of water from them after the con tract expires. Texas A&M can’t furnish all of College Station’s water supply during peak demand hours, so it will still need to purchase some water from Bryan. When College Station starts buying most of its water from Texas A&M, it will purchase about 3 million gallons a day, Luedke said. College Station will continue to buy water from Texas A&M until it completes its own water system about four years from now. George Ford, director of pub lic services for College Station, said the city pays Texas A&M 43 cents per 1,000 gallons. The University Utilities financial re port stated that last year 1,000 gallons of water cost Texas A&M 38 cents to produce. If production costs and pur chase price remain the same next year, Texas A&M will make $150 a day from the water it sells Col lege Station, if an average of 3 million gallons is sold each day. The production cost of the water is not expected to increase next year. Since the price of the water is determined by the cost of production and distribution, it is not expected to increase either. Texas A&M’s water system does not make all of its profit by selling water to College Station. Much of the profit comes from water that is used on campus. R. Clark Diebel, Texas A&M con troller, said the ideal situation would be for the water system to break even every year. He added rates for the water could not be set to break even because the production and maintenance cost are not known beforehand. He said even if the water was sold at cost to the dormitories and apartments on campus, dorm fees would not be reduced because the cost is spread out among so many people. However, no student fees have ever been used for utility expansion. Instead, the projects are financed by revenue bonds. The profit from the utilities is used to pay off the bonds. Diebel said that Texas A&M The great blue tower holds 2 million gallons of water. Battalion photo by Ed Cunnius has made a profit from the water system for several years, and all the money is spent in the physi cal plant. “The profit is used for repairs and extensions of the water sys tem, such the expansion on the west campus,’’ Diebel said. “The money is used to bring utilities to new buildings, but is not used to put them in the new buildings,” Diebel said. He also said the water system needs reserve money, for emergencies and repairs because of the high cost of the equipment and the replacement parts for the water system. The water system is an exten sive one. The wells are located about eight miles from the cam pus in a field northeast of Texas A&M’s Research Annex off Highway 21. A ground storage reservoir at the field pump sta tion feeds the water into two transmission lines. These lines feed into two two-million gallon storage tanks at the pump station at Pinfeather and F&B roads. The pumps at this station send water to some parts of the campus and also pump water to the blue water tower located on campus. The water tower, completed in 1975 at a cost of about $785,000, has a two million gallon storage capacity. One of the reasons for building the large capacity water tower was to provide protection during emergency periods. The water tower provides adequate storage for water used to fight fires even during peak demand periods, such as hot afternoons in the summer. In case of an electrical black out, the water tower would be able to supply the campus with water without depending on the wells or pumps. How long the water could last depends on the water could last depends on the number of people on campus and the season of the year. From the water tower, the water is distributed to parts of the campus that don’t get their water directly from the pump station. Counting both storage and pumping capacity, the water sys tem at Texas A&M can furnish about 16 million gallons in one day in the case of fires of other needs. On a day-to-day basis, the 11-million-gallon pumping capa city is almost equivalent to the amount of water a town of approx imately 75,000 people would use in one day, depending on climate and location. Texas A&M adds one part per million of chlorine to the water before it is consumed. This kills any bacteria that may be in the water. The Texas State Health Department inspects the water system and tests the water annually. The present water supply is expected to exist until the year 2000. No plans have been made for the system past this date. The water level at the well site is dropping due to growth of Col lege Station. All of the deep well water levels are dropping a few feet each year. The system de pends on rainfall to maintain the lev^l of the water table. sey, a local Texas, a < in break-up] nplications a egaJ bond,* ccount. arried bye ey can hild custolj ■rty mattefi'-l le the matt j-red mai -uple must utual intent themselves t written* selves to lk ! 1 wife tudent filmmaking spurs contests United Press International JEW YORK — A New York sales [motion firm has come up with an isual marketing scheme for a pnewhat unlikely collection of :nts designed to capitalize on Ident interest in filmmaking. TRG’s marketing device is a group of contests called FOCUS, an anagram for Films of College and University Students. About $30,000 worth of merchandise and schol arship prizes are being offered by TRG clients including Playboy magazine, U.S. Tobacco Co. Universal Pictures. and CMOHOM )f either a relationsl! oact. i our •. I went -pression, itedthatif] ,jl ended advantage >f col pie repel' , “I haven ng with a! n reg eel thatlk 1 more fhture.lt' , e dfromt ig with wi /as the The object, of course, is to build wider acceptance among the stu dents of the sponsors’ products. The chief competition is open to students who produce non-com mercial 16mm films on campus. The films may be documentaries, experimental fiction films or cartoon animations with narrators. They must have been produced within the past two years, and be no more than 30 minutes long. Universal Pictures is offering $4,500 in filmmaking scholarship prizes and Playboy is offering $4,500 in film study scholarship prizes. TRG Communications, Inc., said some 1,000 American colleges offer at least 2,000 courses in motion pic ture as an art form or an education and documentary tool and almost 300 offer fairly complete technical courses in filmmaking. 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