Professor David Freyberg, right, spoke about the Searsville Dam and reservoir at the 2007 Walk the Farm event.
David Freyberg, who studies dams - particularly Searsville Dam - recently took members of the Historical Society on a slide-show tour of Stanford's elaborate water system. The good news is that potable water use on campus is trending down. The bad news is that Stanford's dams, which provide much of the university's non-potable water, are aging. BY KATE CHESLEY When Stanford Historical Society President Charles Junkerman invited David Freyberg, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, to give a talk last week on Stanford's water systems at a society meeting, he had no idea water would become, as he put it, "one of the hottest issues going." In fact, when he introduced Freyberg, Junkerman, associate provost and dean of Continuing Studies and Summer Session, held up a news magazine whose cover story focused on the impending scarcity of clean water worldwide. The timeliness of the subject meant that about 100 Historical Society members crowded into Room 2 in Lane History Corner to hear Freyberg's talk. Freyberg studies dams and, in particular, Stanford's Searsville Dam, located in the foothills. For an hour, Freyberg took society members on a slide-show tour of Stanford's elaborate water system, focusing on potable water, non-potable water and the university's three dams.
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