In Spring 2024, a CEE 449 course conducted water quality testing from campus buildings (FAR, ISR, Union, CIF). The testing found that lead and copper levels in the water samples from campus buildings were well below EPA standards for safe drinking water. The final report is attached.
Hi Matt,
It’s nice to virtually meet you - I’m the Sustainability Programs Coordinator at iSEE. I’ve been working with colleagues involved in zero-waste efforts to start drafting a proposal to install hydration stations with water bottle refillers in residence halls on campus. Alma is supportive of this idea and approved the idea of submitting a proposal to the Student Sustainability Committee.
I was wondering if you have any cost information available for the following:
Hi Mike,
Hi Dave,
What effort and rough costs would it take to clean off the hard water stains on filler station spouts across campus?
Thanks,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qGob6lBsBE and now featured on the Reduce Single-Use Plastics Project Page.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz1SnHq64XY and now featured on the Fighting Ilini, Fighting Waste Project Page.
On July 24, 2023 UIUC sustainability representatives met and discussed the following:
Attendance: Bryan Johnson, Pete Varney, Julie Wurth, Steve Breitwieser, Marty Kaufmann, Daphne Hulse
Working on the inventory now, finding some strange things going on. Image below of recently installed machine in Vet Med.
Also, new fountains are being installed/replaced on campus. Probably should inform involved parties if we want all new fountains to be bottle fill capable.
Attendance: Jen Fraterrigo, Daphne Hulse, Marty Kaufmann, Zach Acton, Tim Knox
Agenda
From: Mancuso, Anthony D <tmancuso@illinois.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 7, 2023 7:05 AM
To: Hulse, Daphne Lauren <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Cc: Fraterrigo, Jennifer M <jmf@illinois.edu>
Subject: Re: Updated water filler station map
Naveen Reddy's (zero waste summer intern '23) examples of universities which have worked to address plastic waste on campus (case studies).
Attendance: Jake Slager, Shawn Patterson, Thurman Etchison, Jen Fraterrigo, Steve Breitwieser, Travis Tate, Shreya Mahajan, Daphne Hulse
Coke Updates:
From: Fraterrigo, Jennifer M <jmf@illinois.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2023 9:38 AM
To: Hulse, Daphne Lauren <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Subject: water bottles
Daphne,
Hi Jen,
CC’ed is the team of ENG 177 students who are working on the survey for water bottle filling stations. Can you send them the map of locations?
From: Fraterrigo, Jennifer M jmf@illinois.edu
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 11:20 AM
To: Hulse, Daphne Lauren dlhulse2@illinois.edu
Subject: RE: Drinking water behavior survey
On January 26, F&S FIR sent over the updated map (attached). Revisions include the new additions from Housing and McKinley. It also parses out the labels for total "fancy" and "simple" water bottle fill stations for each building.
On 1/24/23 Daphne Hulse sent F&S FIRS inventory information for McKinley and University Housing (attached), and requested the unit to update the existing map with this new information. Additionally, the new map will ideally differentiate between fancy and simple bottle fillers through symbols or colors.
Hi Daphne,
