Chattanooga Engineers Club

Great Programs, Good Food and Free Parking

NEXT MEETING___________________________

PLANT TOUR & PRESENTATION: Monday, June 29, 2009 - Noon - BlueCross BlueShield “Cameron Hill Campus," Reception Hall, 1 Cameron Hill Circle, Chattanooga, TN

Please plan to arrive 10 minutes early.

Bob Worthington, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, and Dan Jacobson, Vice President Properties & Corporate Services Division for BlueCross BlueShield will lead the Chattanooga Engineer's Club through a one-hour tour of the new BlueCross BlueShield corporate headquarters on Cameron Hill. The 950,000-SF facility is located on 12 acres. Four of the office buildings have five floors, approximately 200,000 square feet each, and house employee offices and daily operations. The fifth building, located on the west side of Cameron Hill, includes a large dining facility, training rooms, and conference rooms.

Lunch will not be provided. Please make your own lunch arrangements before or after the tour.

Meeting Place: Cameron Hill Campus - Drive up Cameron Hill to the guard station, where you will be directed to the Visitor’s Parking. Bob and Dan will meet you inside the Reception Hall, which is adjacent to Visitor Parking.

Reservations are required to attend this tour. All reservations should be made by Noon on Wednesday, June 24^th.

FUTURE MEETINGS________________________

The DOUBLETREE staff has asked our Club to seat those who eat lunch at the Hotel separately from those who do not. The staff counts those at the round tables with place settings, and bills the Club for meals consumed. If you do not plan to purchase lunch, please sit in a chair on the perimeter of the room.

Monday, July 6 - Noon - “Understanding Home and Office Data Networks”

Speaker: Chuck Chamberlin, Director of Telephone & Network Systems, Chattanooga State

Meeting Place: DOUBLETREE HOTEL

Monday, July 13 – Noon – “The Process of Flour Milling”

Speaker: Chad Bontrager, Assistant Facility Manager, Horizon Milling

Meeting Place: DOUBLETREE HOTEL

Monday, July 20 - Noon - "Renewable Energy"

Speakers: Mark Schwartz

Bill Drewery

Monday, July 27 - Noon - "Use of Robotic Technology in Urological Cancer Treatment"

Speaker: Dr. Amar Singh, M.D., Erlanger Medical Center

Monday, August 3 - Noon - "Journey Through Space with NASA"

Speaker: Dan Loposer

Monday, August 10 - Noon - "Greenhouse Gas"

Speaker: Rob Ellis, Advanced Waste Management

PREVIOUS MEETING_______________________

Jerry Stewart, Director of the Waste Resources Division, Department of Public Works in the City of Chattanooga, spoke about the operation of the Moccasin Bend Waste Water Treatment Plant and Interceptor Sewer System.

Some of the old sewers in Chattanooga are brick and were installed in the 1890’s. The modern Interceptor Sewer System was started in 1952. Pump stations and regulator chambers were added,.at first, followed by the wastewater treatment plant. Over 50% of the current sewer system was constructed of brick, clay, and concrete before 1970.

In 1960, the Moccasin Bend Primary Treatment Plant was completed. The Plant currently serves more than 220,000 residents and 85 permitted industrial dischargers in the Chattanooga and surrounding area. It has treatment capacity of 140 mgd and a peak capacity of 220 mgd. The Plant uses chlorine to disinfect the liquid in order to prepare it for discharge to the river. Samples of the discharge to the river are checked 4 times per month. Methane gas from the anaerobic digestion process is utilized to provide energy for the Plant and reduce natural gas consumption.

Mr. Stewart said it may cost several hundred million dollars to modernize the sanitary sewer system to meet federal requirements to mitigate sanitary sewer overflows.

ITEMS OF INTEREST_______________________

The Chattanooga Engineer's Club meets at the DOUBLETREE HOTEL, CHATTANOOGA (407 Chestnut St., Chattanooga, TN 37402). Free parking is available in the gated parking lot on the south side of the Hotel. The gate will be open from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. There is additional free parking east of the Hotel on Chestnut Street in the paved parking pit.

Looking for details on a local society meeting? Links to local engineering societies are available to you at: http://www.chattanoogaengineersclub.org/engineer

Click on the following link to view Chattanooga State’s Summer Enrichment program for Teens, http://www.chattanoogastate.edu/continuinged/busmwksp.asp

QUESTIONS and SUGGESTIONS______________

If you have any questions, items of interest to the Chattanooga Engineers Club, or suggestions for 2009 programs, please contact Joe Robbins by e-mail at jrobbins@robbinsbohr.com or by phone at 423-756-4430. You can find membership application forms, references to future programs, historical data, and other info at: http://www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org. To receive future meeting announcements by email, join the Chattanooga Technology Organization mailing list at: http://www.ChattanoogaEngineersClub.org/email