USA: University Staff to Learn About John Redmond Reservoir Dredging

More than 50 University of Kansas staff members will visit the John Redmond Reservoir and Tallgrass Prairie Preserve on Friday, May 30.

The 2014 Mini Wheat State Tour is an initiative of the Unclassified Senate and its professional development committee. Each year, the tour brings together a group of KU staff from across the university to learn about issues and institutions of importance to the state. This year’s tour will focus on critical threats to the state’s water supply.

In the morning, the tour group will travel to the John Redmond Reservoir near Burlington. The reservoir is one of the state’s largest and most imperiled bodies of water. The state of Kansas is proposing to dredge the reservoir in order to restore water supply lost to sedimentation.

Researchers at the Kansas Biological Survey will speak to the tour group about the effort to collect sediment core samples. A Westar Energy representative will address the significance of the dredging project for the nearby Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant and the region’s electrical power supply.

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Press Release, May 28, 2014