“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.” ― Mother Teresa
Announcements
(notes provided by the distinguished gentleman from Connecticut, Edward Perry)
Robb noted that additional people are need for future Habitat building project and Eastern Illinois Food distributions. See Robb or Ron for more information.
Larry thanked all that helped and noted that the EIFB food distribution at Booker T. Washington STEM Academy last Saturday served over 110 families.
Laura noted that the raffle drawing for a new car at The Champaign Park District’s “Taste of Champaign” is just about here. Tickets are still available.
Molly thanked everyone who bought tickets and contributed to the recent CU Schools Foundation fundraisers.
Program
Rick Manner, Executive Director at the Urbana & Champaign Sanitary District (UCSD), presented historical, current and future information about the local sanitary district. The original sewer line that runs to the sanitary plant on University Avenue in east Urbana was built in 1898 with additional main lines built in 1923, 1946 and 1956. These were built as Urbana and Champaign grew and the demand required it, including the 1956 main line to accommodate the Kraft plant in Champaign.
With the additional new plant now built in south west Champaign the main lines are now running to the west and east. These plants take in the sewage and through an all natural, five step process to clean it up. Through a series of screens that filter out the large debris, natural microbes that do the biological removals, secondary settling, nitrification towers and tertiary filtering, the effluent comes out 99.99% clean and is placed into streams. This process takes in sewage that contains particles at a rate of 200 parts per million and releases it at 4 parts per million which is suitable for the natural environment.
Manner also noted that current plans call for the Sanitary district to provide 6.3 million gallons a day to the new Cronus Chemical Plant in Tuscola. Cronus will use this treated waste water for their chemical processes instead of using drinking water from our Mahomet Aquifer. This sale of treated waste water to Cronus will help the Sanitary District continue to maintain and update their facilities and sewer lines and provide additional natural water enhancements to the surrounding streams. Manner noted that only a fraction of UCSD’s effluent will be sold to Cronus and thus the downstream environmental systems should see no negative impacts.
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| Aug 20th | Aug 27th | Sept 3rd | Sept 10th | |
| Introductions | Allan Penwell | Ed Perry | Chuck Reifsteck | Rod Roberts |
| Invocation | Laura Auteberry | Oktay Baran | Keith Brandau | Alan Chalifoux |
| Greeters | Allan Penwell | Ed Perry | Chuck Reifsteck | Rod Roberts |
| Cary Woolard | Harold Adams | Curt Anderson | Laura Auteberry | |
| Song Leader | Mitch Schluter | Jen Shelby | Lou Simpson | Jeff Van Buren |
| Notetaker | Chamblerain | Perry | Penwell | Hodson |
| Rotary Minute | Ed Perry | Chuck Reifsteck | Rod Roberts | Tod Satterthwaite |
| Decker Weeding | Perry | |||
| Next Weekend | ||||
| Decker Garden | Van Buren | Perry | Perry | |
| Watering |
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UPCOMING SCHEDULE
August 20th – Erich Adickes, Adickes Creative Services
August 27th – Barry Pittendrigh, Department of Entomology, UIUC
September 3rd – Sheila Dodd, Executive Director, Habitat for Humanity
September 10th – Dan Olson, Executive Director, Champaign County Forest Preserve Distrct
September 17th – TBD
September 24th – TBD
October 1st – TBD
October 8th – Jessica DeYoung, Director of the C-U Special Recreation Program
October 15th – TBD
October 22nd – Mike DeLorenzo, Associate Chancellor, will discuss Willard Airport
