IMPORTANT NOTICE:
WHERE WE MEET THIS MONDAY - A CHANGE OF
VENUE _____________________
In an unexpected development, the Cellar
Restaurant will cease to operate in the basement of the Tallan Building
beginning next week. Thus, for our next meeting, we have secured a room at
the Town & Country Restaurant at the corner of Market
Street and Frazier Avenue. In the meantime we are looking for a permanent
meeting location.
NEXT
WEEK_________________________________________________
Monday,
July 28 - noon
Town & Country
Restaurant, Corner of Market St. and Frazier Ave.
Come early
to find a free parking spot at the restaurant or park in the surrounding
area.
Topic: Garbage! How much more of this can we take? -
Damon Riggs, Project. Manager, Solid Waste, ARCADIS
When you throw something away you have a tendency to forget about it.
But it doesn't just disappear off the face of the earth. Someone else has
to think about what to do with your garbage and where to dispose of it as
well. With landfills reaching their allotted maximum, we are having to
come up with unique ways of handling refuse. Damon Riggs from ARCADIS will
tell us how national and local trends in solid waste disposal have changed
(mainly due in part to federal regulation referred to as Subtitle D). He
will explain the overall state of solid waste disposal and explore some of the
emerging technologies in waste disposal.
Invocation Chairperson
for July: Ron Burton
Menu: Chicken fingers, Tossed
salad, Green beans, Baked potatoes, and Cinnamon apples
OUR PREVIOUS
MEETING_______________________________________
Greg Lowe, from Tennessee Valley Authority's River System Operations staff,
told us he prefers "flood damage reduction" to "flood control," because the
river is impossible to 'control.' He brought a copy of a Chattanooga
newspaper article about Red Wagner speaking to the Chattanooga Engineer's club
in 1962 about TVA plans to reduce flood damage to the Chattanooga area.
Greg Lowe shared the following summary of the 2003 flood:
TVA's network of 49 dams functions as an integrated system that allows TVA
to adjust the river's water level on a daily basis. Within the Tennessee River
Valley, about 350 communities are at risk for flooding and flood-related damage.
Over the years, TVA dams have helped prevent more than $5 billion in flood
damages in the Tennessee Valley and on the Ohio and Mississippi
Rivers. An estimated $409 million of damages were recently averted
during the May 2003 flood in Chattanooga. This estimate is based on
surveys of properties in the 100 year flood plain that are conducted by TVA
every 5 to 8 years. Record levels at the flood gates were recorded at
Watts Bar and Chickamauga.
Respectfully submitted by Judy Driggans
FUTURE MONDAY
MEETINGS_____________________________________
August
4:
The History of Flight: From the Wright Brothers
to the International Space Station - Bob Jaques - Historian, NASA Marshall Space
Flight Center (MSFC)
August 11:
Biomass
Technology - Mark Downing, ORNL Environmental Sciences
Division
August 18:
The International Space
Station - Lanny Upton, NASA (MSFC)
August 25:
Internet II - Awesome Speed and Immense Possibilities - Dr.
Clint Smullen, UTC
September 8:
Hybrid
Lighting - Jeff Muhs, ORNL Engineering Science and Technology
Division
September 15:
Responsible Use of the
Internet in Education - a book by Aniekan Ebiefung, UTC,
Mathematics
September 22:
Lego Competition
Update - A prelude to what's coming up for their competition in
December.
October 6:
The Soldier of the
Future - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
October 13:
(NO MEETING - Columbus Day)
October 27:
Technology-Based Economic Development - Greg Laudeman, GA Tech,
Economic Development Institute
QUESTIONS,
SUGGESTIONS? ______________________________
If you have any
questions or suggestions about program items please call Brad Baucom at
423-648-3582 or email him at
baucombe@epb.net. You can find references to
other Chattanooga Engineers Club members at our web site:
www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org.