NEXT MEETING (The Read
House)_____________________________________________
Monday,
January 10, 2005 - noon, The Read House, Continental
Room
Topic: "Changes in Signal Mountain Storm Water
Run Off" - Sam Powell & Bill Wagner, Signal
Mountain
Bill Wagner and Sam Powell will discuss the town of Signal Mountain's program to meet EPA's mandated storm water runoff requirements. They will share first hand a
small town's cost and challenges of complying with the regulations.
Bill Wagner is code enforcement officer and chairman of the Storm Water
Runoff Committee of the town of
Signal Mountain. Sam Powell is Chairman of the Parks Board and a member of the
Storm Water Runoff Committee.
Invocation/Pledge Chair:
Ron Burton (Please call Ron Burton at 886-4693 to volunteer to lead an
invocation/pledge or to be chairman for a month in 2005)
Menu: Not yet
available. Please call the Read House at 266-4121 or Judy Driggans at
751-7616 later this week for the menu.
Immediately following this club meeting at 1:00 pm, Fisher
Campbell would like to meet with the Water Issues Committee. If water
issues interest you, please feel welcomed to stay and become a part of this
committee.
OUR PREVIOUS
MEETING________________________________________________
Topic:
“Northwest Georgia Regional Waste Water Treatment” - Terry
Reynolds, ARCADIS
Terry Reynolds gave us an update of the Georgia
portion of the "Chattanooga, Tennessee-Georgia Wastewater Facilities Study." The clay soil and rocks near the
surface in most of Catoosa, Dade and Walker counties aren’t the best soil for
septic tanks to operate effectively and parts of
these counties are expected to grow. The Moccasin Bend treatment
plant in Chattanooga could process sewage from these counties if it is delivered
via pipes to the Tennessee border. Without these pipes, the sewage that is
not properly handled by septic tanks is draining toward the Tennessee River at
Chattanooga. Terry showed us a map of the proposed sub-basin interceptors
that could make this delivery to the Tennessee border. The cost to install these
pipes has been estimated to be about $160 million. This estimate
does not include the costs to hook up individual sites to these pipes. Since drainage from these
counties all flows north but
not to the same point it isn’t economical to build waste water
treatment plants in these counties. The best solution seems to be to
deliver sewage to the Moccasin Bend Treatment Plant. As the population in parts of these Northwest
Georgia counties is expected to
grow, this update to the mid-70s EPA
study will provide planners facts
they can use in the creation of a regional wastewater treatment alliance to install these proposed sub-basin
interceptors.
FUTURE MONDAY
MEETINGS_____________________________________________
January
17: No Meeting - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Day
January 24: "Igniting Interest In
Science in the Elementary Years" Erika Thornburg, Girls,
Inc.
January 31: Plant Tour of Southern
Champion Tray (Paperboard Packaging Specialists since 1927). Meet at 9:30
am at the plant on 220 Compress Street (37405). They shut down the plant
from 11 to 12 for lunch and they want us to see the plant in operation. So, our tour will be between 9:30 and 11:00
am.
February 7: "Steel - The Cold,
Hard Facts About a Red-Hot Commodity" Nelson Burger, Siskin
Steel
February 14: "Cooking Like The Jetsons
With The Intelligent Ovens Now Being Built In Chattanooga" David Mansbery,
TMIO
February 21: No Meeting - Presidents
Day
Wednesday, February 23: Engineers Week
Keynote Speaker: David Magee, author of Ford Tough
This meeting will be
at the Chattanooga Convention & Trade Center and is a joint meeting with the
Chattanooga Technology Council.
WHERE WE MEET
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We meet at The Read House, and lunch is $11. Parking
is free at the Days Inn across MLK Blvd. but you’ll need a note in your
windshield that you’re attending the Chattanooga Engineers Club meeting.
Valet parking (by AAA, the manager of the Read House Hotel parking garage) is $3
for lunch events. The Read House Hotel garage entrance is now on Broad
Street.
QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS?
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