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Volume LI			September 25, 2000		12:00 noon
						The Cellar at Union Square

THIS WEEK__________________________________________________________________
Bill Allen, Transportation Planner with the Chattanooga-Hamilton County
Regional Planning Agency (RPA), will informed the members on  "ITS,
Intelligent Traffic System, and TDOT's HELP program - Incident Management
System".
Mr. Allen will also discuss briefly the proposed I-75 interchange that would
provide access to the 940 acre Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant site.
Thanks to Terry Reynolds for the series of presentations on various aspects
of Volunteer Site.

LAST WEEK___________________________________________________________________
Maurice Bandy, Vice President of ARCADIS Geraghty & Miller, talked about the
advance in surveying technology in recent years.  GPS, global positioning
system, has improved the accuracy of surveying data.  Mr. Bandy provided
some history lessons as well. George Washington began his career at age 16
as a surveying technician.  Surveying was actually his entry ticket to the
military and later leadership roles.  The tools of the trade, chain,
compass, transit, and rod did not change much for many years.  In 1950's,
the chain was replaced by the use of steel tape.  During the 1988 Gulf War,
GPS became widely used.  The new tools, such as the ones used in obtaining
the boundary data for the Volunteer Site, prismless EDM, GPS, robotic EDM,
CADD, and Eaglepoint software are costly investments.  Due to the expense,
GPS is usually used in large projects, such as highway, pipeline, large
tracts, precision engineering, and high order surveys.  There are 24
satellites available, minimum of four is used to obtain the time
measurements necessary to produce the relative positioning.  Volunteer Site
contract required the survey to obtain one to 50,000 accuracy.
Claude Ramsey, Hamilton County Executive, also spoke to the members on plans
to utilize the Volunteer Site as a key component of the local economic
development strategy.  Hamilton County has missed many past opportunities
due to the lack of large parcels of land.  500 acres is the typical amounts
of land most large manufacturing companies require in production sites.  The
county is pursuing other land purchases, but sees 940 acres, after clean-up,
as a great resource.  The deed signing could be completed as early as
October 3.  With ownership of the land, the county could make available 15
to 20 acres immediately.  The county will need to refrain from dividing the
land into small pieces.  The attractiveness of Volunteer Site is the amount
of land at one place.  The environmental clean up required would be the time
constraint.  The cost, time and money, required for the clean-up is a big
unknown, but the responsibility does lie with the Army.  With the amount of
attention received, it likely to be on some of the political priority lists.

COMING PROGRAM________________________________________________________

October 2 - Gene Shatlock, COMCAST
October 16 - Shannon Boss, Tennessee Donor Services
October 23 - Steve Leach,   "Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant site, its
history, and its road access to the community."

Fred Lupton is October Program Chair.




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