A crew replaced the collapsed section of the line with newer PVC piping and installed a clean-out valve to assist in future clearings. Trustees is not the first building on campus to feel the pains of the old campus sewer lines that date back 30 to 50 years to when the college operated the city's water. A section that had collapsed in front of the administration building was replaced last year, and others have offered similar problems over the last decade. Most likely, James suggested, these are not the last of the frustrations. James comments that it is not economically feasible to replace everything at once.
Good stewardship says to use stuff until it breaks.
No plan is currently on the table for a complete overhaul of the sewage system, but college officials do hope to renovate interior bathroom plumbing and fixtures in all four of Asbury's residence halls over the next five years, beginning with the basement bathroom of Glide next summer. Other utilities work has made muddy sidewalks and loose gravel common sights throughout the campus, mostly the result of city crews upgrading a water main between Johnson Residence Hall and the Kinlaw Library to improve water flow and fire protection for the college. The nature of the water business is you are always trying to make improvements somewhere. Back to top Salvation Army leader urges self-sacrifice by Jason Williams Sports Editor Last weekend General John Gowans, world leader of the Salvation Army, and his wife, Commissioner Gisele Gowans, international women's leader for the Salvation Army, stepped onto the campus of Asbury College for the first time in over 20 years and the first time as international leaders of the Salvation Army. Asbury College was one of two stops in the United States for the general.