Council discusses *ozonation facility by Jonathan Berndt Daily City Reporter The Ann Arbor City Council met as a Committee of the Whole last night to discuss, but not to approve, a $1.1 million contract that would bring the city's water treatment plant into compliance with recently- changed environmental laws. In a letter to the council, City Administrator Al Gatta said the treatment plant - located at 919 Sunset Rd. - needs to add an ozonation facility and other im- provements in order to comply with *surface water treatment rules. "The ozonation facility will dis- infect the water," said Harvey Mieske, water plant superintendent. "It is more powerful than chlorine and doesn't form THMs (Trihalomethanes), whose chloro- form is a suspected carcinogen. We could meet the requirement with chlorine, but then we would exceed the THM limit." Gatta's letter also said the city has an agreement with the Michigan Department of Public Health to achieve full compliance by June 1996. "Right now the facility doesn't need to be constructed," Mieske said. "But (the requirements) will be law by the time (the project) gets done." The agreement includes a sched- ule providing sufficient time for quality design, construction and start-up operation of the ozonation system. The schedule also includes grad- ual increases in water rates over three years to finance the estimated $7.5 million cost of the system. Councilmember Larry Hunter (D- 1st Ward) said he thinks the council eshould have questioned the unfunded federal mandate. "We should have challenged the rules to get financial relief or get into a partnership with the govern- ment," Hunter said. He added it is possible the tech- nology could be obsolete by the time the plan is completed. "We should be sure on the tech- nology before we spend $10 mil- 0Wlon," he said. Larry Sanford, Mieske's assis- tant, said the system would remove an infectious organism that causes stomach cramps and diarrhea and is very hard to cure. He added that both filtration and disinfectant systems are necessary to eradicate the organ- ism from the water. Mieske said the ozone, the com- pound used in the system, must be produced on-site. "It is produced by passing oxy- gen through an electrical current to form Ozone or 03. This form is very unstable so it must be produced onsite." The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 29, 1992 - Page 3 DPS oversight board open to hear complaints School of Music sophomore Emi Nakazato addresses the crowd assembled for the Speak Out last night in the Union Ballroom. The Speak Out was part of the eighth annual Sexual Assault Awareness Week. SAPAC Speak Out supports sur"vors of sexual assault by Karen Talaski Daily Gender Issues Reporter A celebration of both joy and tears marked the Sixth Annual Speak Out on Sexual Assault and Harassment held last night at the Michigan Union. Throughout the evening about 650 people attended the four- hour Speak Out. The event - part of the Eighth Annual Sexual Assault Awareness Week - was sponsored by the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC). "It is a time for survivors to have for themselves to use in a way that is constructive for them," said SAPAC counselor Kata Issari. "The Speak Out is a real celebration of the strength and courage." Terry, one of the many sur- vivors who spoke, said it took her a long time to reconcile herself to being raped. "My advice is for everyone to do whatever it takes to begin healing. It's not worth living half a life," she said. Alicia, another survivor, said, "I want to tell the men: Take as many precautions so that you will never be called a rapist as a woman takes so that she will never be raped." The celebration theme was conveyed by flowers, balloons, and survivors' artwork which decorated the Union Ballroom. Inspirational music was played to create an uplifting mood as well. The spirit of the evening was heightened by the stories of the survivors. Each survivor who talked was given a round of ap- plause as well as a flower to thank him or her for speaking. After Catherine was raped at age 10, she said she felt as if she was dead inside. "My father said the worst thing you can say to a child: Never tell anyone. I still feel the guilt and the pain and the shame." Jennifer said, "No longer should we live in this world where rape is a dirty word or where women who are raped and men who are raped are dirty people." She was drunk when her as- sault occured, Jennifer continued. "I'm not preaching, but be careful when you drink. Watch out for yourself and each other." Rosanne said she still feels the fear from her attack. "I've been fighting this for so long and it doesn't seem like I'm getting anywhere." Meg, a survivor who has anorexia nervosa and bulimia, said that "over the past few months I realized that I've not only been feeling distance from my body but I've been trying to make it disappear. "Women are taught that our bodies are not ours and they be- long to the public and to anybody who wants to touch them," Meg said. "That's not true. Your body does belong to you and not any- one else." by Erin Einhorn Daily Crime Reporter Complaints about the U-M Department of Public Safety (DPS) have previously been processed through the department. But LSA senior Christy Ochoa said she fears some people might not feel comfort- able complaining about the police to the police. That's one reason she wanted to serve on the DPS oversight board, which met for the second time yesterday. "It's clear to me that student con- cerns were never addressed when they installed the police force," said Ochoa, who has opposed the depu- tized force since it was installed on campus in June 1990. "(This oversight board) is the last possible way to make sure students have some power in being able to affect policy," she said. At yesterday's meeting, the elected members of the oversight board - two students, two faculty members and two staff members - questioned DPS director Leo Heatley about previous complaints addressed to the department, officer training methods, and department regulations. Heatley said much of the re- quested information was not avail- able to the public, but said he would summarize some of the material for the oversight board after consulting with an attorney. Heatley also said he hoped he would be able to communicate regu- larly with the committee. "If we have employees that are not acting within our philosophy, we want to know about it," he said. "I would hope that you would have faith in us to investigate the matter in a timely manner." Members of the board said they would like to learn more about DPS operations and said they were dis- mayed by Heatley's promise to de- liver a summary of previous complaints. "I'm weary of Leo Heatley," Ochoa said. "Anything that is not protected by the Freedom of Information Act should be made available from the start. I don't need a summary - I can read it." School of Natural Resources se- nior Michael Dorsey - the other elected student representative to the oversight board - agreed. "Clearly we've got to get the rule book," he said. "If we can't see the rules, it's as if there are no rules." The board plans to question an attorney when it meets again next week to learn what types of informa- tion it is entitled to by the Freedom of Information Act. Heatley said DPS will be coop- erative and invited committee mem- bers to ride in a patrol car with an officer for a shift. "The more you know about our department, the better you'll be able to evaluate it," he said. Dorsey said he ran for the over- sight board because of his "opposition to fascism." "Fascists work in a way like the police do - behind closed doors," he said. "It's a small group of people making huge changes to policy that have wide, far reaching impacts," he said. He said being on the oversight board gives him an opportunity to "get in that door." "I want to see that they do their job the way they're supposed to do their job," he said. Dorsey and Ochoa agreed the best way to give students and com- munity members more control over DPS is to publicize the oversight board and encourage anyone with problems to contact the board immediately. "The only way to test this grievance board is to get grievances," Dorsey said. "People need to know that there is this board and we can take their complaints." Look for it in the (they rea Bush, Clinton compete for Michigan voters DETROIT (AP) - President Bush and Bill Clinton were planning dueling campaign appearances today in the Detroit area as both fight for the state's 18 electoral votes. Bush planned to overnight yesterday in Warren before a full slate of appearances today in the Detroit and Grand Rapids areas.. The Winans gospel group will back Clinton at a noon rally today in downtown Detroit, while Bush rallies his supporters in nearby Macomb County beginning at 11:30 a.m. The visits are No. 12 for Bush and seven for Clinton in 1992. "We want to give him that last big boost as he heads around third toward home base," Larry Simmons, an aide to Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, said of Clinton's rally. A Republican organizer said Bush is gaining ground in Macomb County, carried by Ronald Reagan and by Bush in 1988 but now favoring Clinton in the polls. "The guy's starting to catch a little fire," said Terry Gilsenen, deputy city treasurer in Warren. After the Warren rally, the president flies to Grand Rapids, where he will attend an outdoor rally at the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan GOP national committee member Charles Yob said Tuesday. Former President Gerald Ford 'You can lose the last 10 weeks, just don't lose the last one.' - Tom Shields Republican pollster will be on hand for the Grand Rapids rally as well as a private Kent County GOP fund-raiser tonight. Bush then is to appear in an hourlong televised town meeting at 8 p.m. on WZZM-TV. He will be questioned by 100-150 citizens gathered in Holland, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Detroit and the Grand Rapids studio. Clinton held a similar TV session on WXYZ-TV in Detroit last month. "It's good timing for Bush to do it now," said Republican pollster Tom Shields. "You can lose the last 10 weeks, just don't lose the last one." Clinton is to leave Michigan after the Detroit rally. His wife, Hillary, will speak later at a 4,000-person fund-raiser at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. Electon>'9 heard the peeh. 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