The group formed January 2004 with the goal of meeting twice a month during the lunch hour (brown bag) and listening to an ESC technical presentation. The time can be counted toward the engineer's PDH credits. The meeting rooms are rotated among TxDOT, TCEQ, City of Austin and LCRA meeting rooms that are provided at no cost to the group. The group could not survive without this generous donation. The group includes members of the South Central IECA chapter and encourages membership and participation.

About the Brown Bag Sessions
The meetings are intended to be constructive, educational, and relaxed in tone. The spirit of the group is one of open sharing and discussion in a courteous and professional manner. The goal is to cooperatively build upon the experiences of all the members. The brownbag luncheon meetings are held at no charge due to the gracious sponsors that donate meeting room space, cokes and bottled water. Since the room sponsors are governmental agencies, the content of the meetings cannot take on any semblance of a "political agenda" or grievance session. We cannot afford to loose these generous sponsors. The attendees "code of conduct" should support this positive educational environment. Attendees should not be combative or hostile with the guest speaker. Attendees should allow time for others in the group to ask questions. Extended technical discussions with the speaker should be held after the brown bag session. This venue should be a safe environment for the speakers who are taking time to take a risk and get infront of a professional group of peers to review a particular product, case study or regulatory issue. These general "rules of the road" are suggested to help keep the meetings constructive, educational, and relaxed in tone.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

NEXT MEETING

POSTPONED

I forgot that today was a HOLIDAY. Sorry for the confusion.
I will arrange for another DAY-TIME in December and let everyone know.

NO MEETINGS IN NOVEMBER

Tuesday, November 11, approximately 11:40 am to 12:40 am

SPEAKERS
Sam Smith
Contech

TOPIC
Underground Water Quality treatment - Vortech

LOCATION
TCEQ Building B - 2nd floor - the regular room
west side of IH-35, south of Yager
see general location map

FUTURE MEETINGS (CAECN and OTHER GROUPS)

Date = TBD
Location = TBD
Speaker = Kenneth Waite
Topic = Stormceptor - Underground Water Quality Treatment

Date = TBD
Location = TBD
Speaker = TBD
Topic = CoCoRaHS is a grassroots volunteer network of backyard weather observers of all ages and backgrounds working together to measure and map precipitation (rain, hail and snow) in their local communities. By using low-cost measurement tools, stressing training and education, and utilizing an interactive Web-site, our aim is to provide the highest quality data for natural resource, education and research applications. The only requirements to join are an enthusiasm for watching and reporting weather conditions and a desire to learn more about how weather can effect and impact our lives. www.cocorahs.org

Date = TBD
Location = TBD
Speaker = Dr. Charles Woodruff, P.G.
Topic = Substrate, Soils, and Stair step Hills - Unexpected Attributes of the Central Texas Hill Country

RESCHEDULED DUE TO HURRICANE IKE IMPACTS
Date = Feb 3-4, 2009
Location = Houston (see www.houstonLWSforum.org)
Speaker = Larry Coffman
Topic = LID Short Course

OTHER EROSION / WQ GROUP MEETINGS
Just in case you are visiting another city and could attend one of their meeting - or if you have colleagues in these cities that may want to attend.

HOUSTON has a group going (Bob Adair, (281) 537-8657) www.houstonLWSforum.org

They will be sponsoring a LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT (LID) WORKSHOP on September 23-24, 2008, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
DALLAS has a group going (Tom Schneider, (972) 998-2901)
SAN ANTONIO
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
LITTLE ROCK, AK

DIRT TIME
John McCullah has donated some copies of his DIRT TIME DVDs to the group - we have set up a "check out list" like at Library (person A can borrow a copy for X time and then return it later for person B to use, etc)

Season 1, Disk 1 - hydromulch, ECB, sediment ponds
S1, D2 - silt fence, wattles, polymers
S1, D3 streambank stabilization
Season 2, Disk 1 riverbanks, coir blocks, rolls, geobags, woody debris, rock riprap
S2, D2 streambank, landslide repair, poles, brush layers, rock vanes, monitoring

Thank you John (800) 403-0474

PDH CREDITS - CAECN
Please recall that our Capital Area Erosion meetings can be counted as 1.0 PDH credit toward annual PE registration requirements (Honor system)

SPONSORS
Thank you to COA, TxDOT, TCEQ, COA, LCRA, and City of Round Rock for donating room space so we can have these technical meetings. And thank you to everyone for taking time from work to attend these brown bag sessions.

Thank you to Hanes GeoProducts (formerly Lone Star GeoProducts) for providing soft drinks.

SCIECA

Please continue to check out the South Central Chapter of IECA web site for additional training information thru the year and links to other helpful sites (thank you for providing info about CAECN on your site...)

Please pass this information along to others. Thanks!

Andy Johnston, PE, RPLS, CPESC, CFM
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
Project Manager, Sr | Water Infrastructure, Austin
2705 Bee Cave Road, Suite 300
Austin, Texas 78746-5688
512.314.3134
512.314.3135 fax
andy.johnston@jacobs.com