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On the Cover: Old San Antonio Road. Photo by Austin Watershed Protection Department.

TEXAS SECTION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Crespin Guzman PE OPERATIONS MANAGER: Elizabeth R. Greenwood COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER: Annemarie Gasser DATA MANAGER: Lauren Marcotte 1524 S. Interstate 35, Suite 180 Austin, Texas 78704 Phone: 512-472-8905 E-mail: office@texasce.org Website: www.texasce.org 2013–2014 OFFICERS PRESIDENT: Tim C. Newton PE PAST PRESIDENT: John N. Furlong PE PRESIDENT ELECT: Curtis B. Beitel PE VP-EDUCATIONAL: Eric L. Fisher PE VP-EDUCATIONAL ELECT: Lawrence D. Goldberg PE VP-PROFESSIONAL: Patrick M. Beecher PE VP-PROFESSIONAL ELECT: Roman D. Grijalva PE VP-TECHNICAL: John D. Garcia PE VP-TECHNICAL ELECT: Peter E. Falletta PE TREASURER: David J. Matocha ASSISTANT TREASURER: Curtis R. Steger PE DIRECTORS AT LARGE SENIOR DIRECTOR AT LARGE: Brett A. Pope PE SECOND YEAR DIRECTOR AT LARGE: Vanessa I. Rosales-Herrera PE FIRST YEAR DIRECTOR AT LARGE: Brad M. Hernandez PE FIRST YEAR DIRECTOR AT LARGE: Christina L. Hickey PE SECTION DIRECTORS Brandon E. Hammann PE, Austin Branch Robert Lys Jr PE, Brazos Branch Russell R. Carter PE, Caprock Branch Devon K. Dreyer PE, Central Texas Branch Anthony B. Gavlik PE, Corpus Christi Branch Chula B. Ellepola PE, Dallas Branch J. Gilberto Andujo PE, El Paso Branch Kimberly K. Cornett PE, Fort Worth Branch Martin D. Morris PE, High Plains Branch Andrea Cheng Ranft PE, Houston Branch Arthur M. Clendenin PE, Northeast Texas Branch Alfonso A. Soto PE, Rio Grande Valley Branch James A. Lutz PE, San Antonio Branch Robert C. Hickman PE, Southeast Texas Branch Andrew L. Mellen PE, West Texas Branch ASCE - Region 6 Kenneth B. Morris PE Director and Board of Governors Chair 2014-2017 Nancy S. Cline PE Governor—Texas Section 2011–2014 Ken A. Rainwater PhD PE Governor—Texas Section 2012–2015 Elvidio V. Diniz PE Governor—New Mexico Section 2012–2015 Jeremy P. Stahle PE Governor—Oklahoma Section 2013-2016 Sean P. Merrell PE Governor—Appointed (Texas Section) 2013-2016

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Calendar of Events 4 CPD Opportunities

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President’s Message 5 Cover Story 6 2013 Halloween Flood on Austin’s Onion Creek

Message from the Executive Director

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Report From Region 6

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Branch News 10 Student’s Center

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Outstanding Engineers 14 2014 Webinars 14 ASCE News 15 Membership Report 17 The Jackhammer Elegies Book Review

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Younger Members’ Corner

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Early Registration Discount For CECON

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Employment Classifieds

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Short History of the Flood Gage at Congress Avenue Bridge, Colorado River in Austin

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Professional Directory 22

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President’s Message

Tim C. Newton PE Texas Section President

The United States Congress Joint Economic

unique position to help reverse the trend of decreasing percentages of students graduating with degrees in STEM fields. As members of ASCE and as employees of companies that depend on having an educated STEM work force, it is incumbent upon us to support and promote STEM.

Committee report on Science Technology Engineering and Math Education states: The demand for STEM skilled workers is expected to increase into the future. However, a smaller percentage of students are pursuing post-secondary STEM degrees.

Source: STEM Education: Preparing for the Jobs of the Future, Report by the Joint Economic Committee Chairman’s Staff, April 2012. Senator Bob Casey, Chairman.

President Obama stated in his February, 2012 speech And that’s why when I took office; I called for an all-hands-on-deck approach to science, math, technology and engineering. Let’s train more teachers. Let’s get more kids studying these subjects. Let’s make sure these fields get the respect and attention that they deserve.

As “Teach – Make a Difference”, at www.teach. com explains: Reinvigorating interest in STEM subjects has been on the national agenda since the publication of “A Nation at Risk” in 1983. Falling achievement in STEM subjects across all levels of education has prevented the United States from upholding our status as the global technological powerhouse we were during the mid-20th century. The current demand of STEM jobs in America greatly outweighs the supply of capable workers, and it is up to our generation of teachers and students to close that gap before the U.S. can no longer compete with other innovators around the world.”

The American Society of Civil Engineers is in a

Supporting the education of students pursuing STEM degrees is not new to ASCE. The Society has promoted outreach to pre-college students for many years. The resources and materials available to our Regions, Sections and Branches have steadily increased over the past few years. ASCE has a wealth of information on its website - www. asce.org/outreach. The resources available to us have been created to inform and educate students, parents, teachers and engineer volunteers.

I am proud to say, many of the Branches in the Texas Section are already involved in pre-college outreach. Current programs include:

• Austin Branch – Partnering with TSPE to send engineers into local elementary school classrooms through Central Texas Discover Engineering (CTDE, formerly CenTexEWeek) • Brazos Branch – planning a program with local junior and senior high school students • Dallas Branch – University of North Texas Student Chapter partnered with Society of Women Engineers for a Design Your World - STEM Conference for 6th - 12th grade girls • El Paso Branch - Members attend STEM career days and participate in a separate STEM society • Fort Worth Branch – participated in May 2014 STEM Education day • High Plains Branch – K-12 STEM program • San Antonio Branch – Student centennial essay contest on civil engineering history winners won iPads presented by Congressman Lamar Smith.

• West Texas Branch – Public outreach program visits various schools and junior colleges

If your Branch has a program that is not listed, please email me at president@texasce.org. If your Branch has not started a program in this focus area, I strongly encourage you to do so. Not only will your efforts help to bring more graduatContinued on page 13

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Flooded Onion Creek area from helicopter, October 31, 2013. Austin Police Department

2013 Austin Onion Creek Halloween Flood

By Director Victoria Li PE, Watershed Protection Department, City of Austin

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uring the evening of October 30 and the morning hours of October 31, 2013, the City of Austin and Travis County experienced extensive flooding. On October 30, 2013, the National Weather Service predicted that Austin could experience 1 to 3 inches of rainfall with isolated heavier totals possible. By the time the storm was over, south Austin/Travis County had received 6 to 9 inches of rain, portions of central Austin had received 4 to 7 inches of rain, and Hays County (including a large portion of the Onion Creek watershed) had received 10 to 11+ inches of rain. The ground in these areas was already saturated from storms that had occurred earlier on Oct. 13th, so the majority of this rainfall became runoff.

Creeks swelled out of their banks and flooded roads and buildings throughout the City, starting in the northern portions of the City early in the rain event and transitioning south as the event continued. Walnut Creek, Shoal Creek, Williamson Creek, and Bull Creek all flooded out of their

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banks during this storm. Above all, flooding in the Onion Creek watershed exceeded the record at the United States Geological Service (USGS) gage located at U.S. Highway 183 South (USGS gage id 08158900). This gage peaked at a stage of 40.15 feet with a flow rate estimated at 135,000 cfs, which broke the previous record of 38 feet from a storm in 1921, 92 years ago. The flood came so quickly that residents stepped outside of their houses to run next door, lost footing in one foot of water, swam to hold on to stop signs for three or four hours in chest high flood water before being rescued. Four people in Travis County lost their lives due to the storm. Three of them were Water Rescue in lower Onion Creek. Austin Fire Department in vehicles in the Onion Creek watershed, and one with the City’s Homeland Security and Emergenwas apparently homeless and did not escape the cy Management Department by providing ground observations of flooding; and notified Austin Fire rising flood waters in Williamson Creek.

Department dispatch in two instances for swift In the Onion Creek watershed, there were ap- water rescues of drivers, who had driven around proximately 750 homes flooded. Of these, 24 barricades on flooded roadways. In the aftermath were completely destroyed, and 92 received sig- of the storm, WPD personnel remained active nificant damage. City-wide, approximately 825 performing debris cleanup, damage assessment, homes received some level of flood damage ei- and providing assistance to flood victims. ther from creek flooding or from localized flooding. Localized flooding is flooding caused by un- Properties in Onion Creek were built before moddersized storm drain systems that generally occur ern day floodplain regulations were implemented.

Nevertheless, residents with substantially damaway from creeks. aged homes are not allowed to rebuild back to The Watershed Protection Department (WPD) of pre-flood conditions without bringing the homes the City of Austin mobilized flood warning and into compliance with the floodplain regulations field operations personnel prior to the storm. (elevating the structure above the 100-year flood Barricades were pre-loaded and shift schedules elevation, among other regulations). The City’s were distributed. Our public information office Watershed Protection, Code Compliance, and tweeted the closed roads and flooding informa- Planning and Development Review departments tion through the Halloween night. WPD closed worked for weeks to provide residents with life more than 40 roadways during the storm; worked safety permits that would allow them to secure Continued on page 12

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Message From The Executive Director We will all remember 2013 as the centennial celebration year, but how will we remember 2014? Give it some thought in terms of, “What am I doing to make it memCrespin Guzman PE orable and meaningful?” We Executive Director are done with the second quarter of the fiscal year, it is never too late to get involved in your Branch and Section activities.

As a matter of fact, your Section office is hard at work with the Section’s Leadership group to introduce newer and greater capabilities in upgraded equipment, software, processes, procedures and programming (our own P3 model). All with the ultimate goal in mind that You, the member, are the benefactor!

By now, you should know that the Section meeting format has changed, but we are still in the implementation phase. There is still plenty of work left to do! If you are great at organizing events, we need your help. We continue to cover new ground and make our P3 adjustments. The Texas Section members, leadership and staff would also benefit from an important change in our collective ATTITUDE on “just because we have not done it this way before, does not mean it’s not going to work”. We prefer a positive outlook and with your help, it is bound to be successful.

The Section has entered into the archiving business, relative to our institutional memory. As a result of the whole centennial effort and particularly the development of the history book, it became quite apparent that we need to do a better job of capturing our history and heritage for posterity. We’ve purchased Canto Cumulus software that will helps us manage our digital assets. This software opens many doors for our members. It will provide access to records, photographs and articles for any Texas Section member or Branch across the 8

state. Searching for ASCE related materials will take minutes instead of hours. We are in the early stages of creating this resource and eager to share it with you!

The Section is also working on its “Get Out the Vote” (GOTV) initiative for the state’s transportation referendum in November. We are well into planning. If you’d like to act locally as a Branch Champion, contact Stephen Crawford (scrawford@halff.com) for ways to get the message out to your Branch members and your community.

The geocaching project is back and in full-force and also needs Branch volunteers! Expect that we will be launching a program this summer. Here, again, is a chance to be part of a unique experience that is a fun way to take pride in being a Texas civil engineer.

Finally, if you haven’t been involved with STEM educational outreach activities, put on your hard hat! What aspect of STEM do you see yourself being part of in the realm of K-12 programs? More information and details are on the horizon.

Don’t be a bystander, jump into the mix and be part of an exciting 2014!

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report from region 6 Region 6 represents three Sections (Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas), 20 Branches, and 18 Student Chapters. We are one of the largest regions in terms of populations, and we are definitely one of the most complex in terms of the number of geographic units represented.

Multi-Region Leadership Conference & ASCE Legislative Fly-In

The Multi Regional Leadership Conference (MRLC) meeting in St. Louis, January 10-11, 2014 was a great success. We had all of the Region 6 Governors, Section and Branch officers from Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and student attendees from the University of Texas, Texas Tech University, Texas A&M, Oklahoma State University, New Mexico State University as well as many others. The Region 6 Board of Governors held a session with the student chapters and we found out several things about the students and their concerns with ASCE. First, most of the students did not know their Practitioner Advisor, who serves as the Branch liaison to the various student chapters.

Second, the students felt much more comfortable talking to someone closer to their own age such as a Younger Member.

And finally, the students would like to transition from a student member to a member of ASCE but some of them did not understand the benefits.

We, as ASCE members and officers, need to make sure that our Student Chapters are well aware of our Branch activities and encourage them to attend. Branch meetings allow them to connect with local civil engineers and network with professionals that can help them in their careers.

Younger Members can make a big difference in a student’s life by attending the Student Chapter meetings and making presentations about local projects or events. By providing this contact with Student Chapters, I believe that the ASCE students will realize the benefits of being an ASCE member and continue their membership after graduation. These students are our future leaders in ASCE. They are also the future civil engineers that will work in consulting firms or government jobs within our communities. It benefits all of us to make sure that they are knowledgeable about what we do as civil engineers and how our profession affects all of society. In January 2015, the MRLC will be held in Houston, sponsored by the Houston Younger Members. I hope to see a good delegation from Texas attending next year.

The ASCE Legislative Fly-In March 18-20, 2014 was held in Washington, D.C. The Legislative Fly-in provides a means for civil engineers to talk to their congressional delegation about issues that are relevant to our profession, but it is also the key to economic development in the U.S. After all, without strong infrastructure, we are not able to sustain a strong economy.

Last year, the Infra- Kenneth B. Morris PE PTOE s t r u c t u r e Region 6 Director Report Card was rolled out in March 2013. We received a considerable amount of publicity about the state of America’s infrastructure and we need to keep the momentum going. This year we are going to concentrate primarily on Transportation and the Highway Trust Fund. By September 2014, if Congress does not act to fund transportation projects with federal dollars, it is possible that Departments of Transportation in all 50 states could lose billions of dollars designated for road and bridge projects. In 2013, the Legislative Fly-In had ASCE representatives from all 50 states, with Texas having about 16 attendees. This year, we had representatives from all of the states in Region 6. It is beneficial to have members interested in participating in the political process. We really can make a difference. If you did not attend the Fly-In, I encourage you to email your congressman about the Highway Trust Fund and how important it is to our future transportation system. You can do this easily though the Key Contact area on the ASCE website. If you are not a Key Contact member please consider joining up.

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Branch News If you have ever attended a career fair at a local elementary or middle school, you will probably attest to the fact that is difficult to compete with other professions such as police officer, fire fighter and veterinarians.

Their jobs involve the ‘cool’ cars and danger factor, and who can compete with the little puppies the vets bring? But our profession is cool too! It is fun, exciting, different each day and what we do is important! Inspiring these young students to look into the field of civil engineering is important too.

The following are a few examples of how many of our Texas Branches have joined in the nationwide movement to promote STEM to students in elementary through high school: El Paso Branch • Members frequently attend career days at local elementary and middle schools • ASCE members also participate in a separate STEM society that has been formed in El Paso Houston Branch • The Houston Branch hosted a booth at the Hobby Airport’s Hobby Fest. Their booth provided a bridge building children’s activity they could then ‘load-test’ with washers. The Branch provided prizes and handed out literature to both kids and adults regarding civil engineering.

Fort Worth Branch • The Branch attended the FUNRAISING Carnival in Saginaw, Texas and hosted a booth were children could build a bridge across the ‘flooded’ Trinity River. Numerous kids visited the booth and the Branch volunteer noted that there were a few future civil engineers there; one little boy kept coming back and asking if he could “fix” some of the other bridges because they didn’t look good or strong enough!

Rio Grande Valley Branch • Members volunteered at their regional middle school MathCounts® competition serving as graders and proctors. Civil engineering brochures were handed out to all participants.

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Dallas Branch • The Dallas Branch started a civil engineering club at Woodrow Wilson High School as part of the pilot program for ASCE national. The branch organized several speakers from across the spectrum of civil engineering and the presenters served as the ‘substitute teacher’ for the day while presenting their topic. The presentations included activities and even field trips. The Dallas Branch would be a great resource for any other Branch looking to start a civil engineering club at their local high school.

• During E-Week, the Branch organized a bridge building activity at the Perot Museum.

• At an Earth Day Texas 2014 event, members hosted a booth that provided children with the opportunity to make a water filter out of supplied materials (cotton balls, coffee filters, gravel, charcoal, etc.). The filters were then tested by pouring ‘contaminated’ water through the filters. The branch also demonstrated how Bernoulli’s equation worked by using a small tank of water and various sizes of piping.

I hope these activities from across Texas will give you plenty of ideas to join in on the outreach to K-12 graders. With the term STEM becoming part of everyday language we need to make sure that civil engineering is being presented as one of the engineering pathways. We do so much every day to make sure the built environment is ready for the next generation, but we must also make sure the next generation is excited and ready to pick up where we leave off. I am a civil engineer today because of one individual, Cissy Sylo PE , who decided to come to my high school and present the fascinating career she was a part of in her role as a civil engineer at DFW airport. It was one person, on one day, that changed my path. Kudos to all the Branches that are striving to be that one person to inspire that one kid, into the wonderful world of civil engineering. 

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Student’s Center

Christina L. Hickey PE First Year Director at Large

Written by: Heidi A. Broberg and Sam M. Payne privileged to host the ASCE Northeast Texas Branch LeTourneau University’s newly established ASCE meeting twice - including hosting U.S CongressStudent Chapter, located in Longview, Texas, is man Louie Gohmert for one meeting. The Student off to a very successful start. Since the inception Chapter also met with the UT-Tyler Student Chapof the civil engineering program in Fall 2009, the ter at a combined meeting in early October. From program has this experience, New Student Chapter at seen dramatic LeTourneau’s StuLeTourneau University improvements dent Chapter within only was able to make the first few connections with years of operUT-Tyler’s chapation. This is ter as well as evidenced by gain valuable inthe graduation sight into how a of first civil enveteran Student gineering class Chapter funcin May, as well tions - in order as enrollment to improve our of the largnewborn chapest incoming ter. LeTourneau’s Emily Rogers Photography freshman class Student Chapter to date. These accomplishments forecast a prom- also had the opportunity to witness UT-Tyler’s ising future for the civil engineering program at planning for the regional Concrete Canoe ComLeTourneau University. In addition to these ac- petition and assisted their Chapter in hosting the complishments, LeTourneau University has also regional competition in April 2014. been approved as a new Student Chapter of ASCE in which students will be able to correlate their Overall, the LeTourneau University Student Chapacademic studies with real world applications of ter is off to a tremendous start. After functioning the past two years as a civil engineering student civil engineering. club, LeTourneau’s new ASCE Student Chapter LeTourneau’s Student Chapter has been active in is honored to be recognized as an official ASCE the community of Longview this past year by par- Student Chapter. LeTourneau’s Student Chapter ticipating in a Habitat For Humanity service proj- would like to thank our advisor Dr. Stephen Ayers, ect. The students dedicated their Saturday morn- our civil engineering faculty, past student officers, ing to complete the construction of a new house the Northeast Texas Branch, the UT-Tyler ASCE close to campus. Students helped break concrete, Student Chapter and all of our insightful student install hardware, and landscape the yard. They members for the achievement of becoming an ofwere proud to take part in an event that helped ficial ASCE Student Chapter.  their community. After witnessing the results of the service project, the Student Chapter will con- Heidi Broberg and Sam Payne are the President tinue to pursue service projects in the upcoming and Vice President of the LeTourneau University year to actively enhance and change the commu- Student Chapter. nity of Longview for the better.

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some livable space. The City has been working for a number of years to address the flooding issues in the Onion Creek watershed. FEMA allowed temporary rebuilding based on the City’s long term strategy of buyout.

The Watershed Protection Department and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are working together to buy out flood-prone homes within the Onion Creek Forest, Onion Creek Plantation and Yarrabee Bend neighborhoods.

The WPD has partnered with the Corps of Engineers since 1999 to find solutions to flooding in the Onion Creek watershed. Our joint study recommended buying out 483 homes in the 25-year floodplain, restoring the riparian areas along Onion Creek and converting the area to a park. The homes in the project area were selected due to their high risk of flooding. These neighborhoods experienced serious flooding in 1998, 2001 and 2013. At the time of the Halloween Flood, the City had already purchased and relocated 323 homes to a safer area in the Corps project. The total cost of these buyouts was approximately $36.5 million. Funding came from a $7.8 million FEMA state grant, the Drainage Utility Fee, the Regional Stormwater Management Program, and the 1998 and 2006 Bond Programs.

The neighborhoods along Onion Creek, just upstream of William Cannon Drive, sustained the most damage during the Halloween Flood. There are 531 residences at risk of flooding in the 100year floodplain in these neighborhoods. The WPD

Cars tossed like toys in Lower Onion Creek area.

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Flooded Onion Creek area from helicopter, October 31, 2013. Austin Police Department

plans to relocate as many of the residents as possible to homes that are safe from flooding. Two days after the 2013 Halloween Flood, the WPD put together an emergency buyout program of $20 million to purchase 116 homes within the Corps project area. Funding came from cost savings from completed projects and reprioritization of a small number of Capital Improvement Projects (CIP). There are an additional 44 homes in the Corps project area that the City hopes will be funded by the March 2014 earmarked federal grant of $11.8 million. Outside of the Corps project area, there are 371 homes remaining in the 100-year floodplain. The Watershed Protection Department is planning to leverage current annual CIP buyout funds to obtain $35.5 million of certificate of obligation bond to complete the buyout of all the homes in the 25 year flood plain.

The amount of rainfall that fell and the location of that rainfall created a flood wave of unprecedented magnitude and speed along Onion

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Creek. It taught us to sharpen our tools in predicting the level of flooding with enough time for a complete dry weather evacuation, while giving us confidence that our efforts in buyout, road closures, public alerts through ATXfloods.com and social media, and providing the Fire Department with needed information have helped and will continue to help protect the public from flood hazards.

We also became keenly aware that, as civil engineers, each one of us is making an impact to someone’s life on a daily basis.

When we are doing a good or not so good a job in design, construction or in administration, we are either helping or endangering another house, another family. Continued from President’s Message Page 5

ing students into STEM degrees, it will also be rewarding to you and to the members of your Branch – YOU will have made a difference.

I encourage you to visit the ASCE society website for education outreach at: http://www.asce.org/outreach/ There are also some excellent examples of outreach projects in the Best Practices Guide for Sections and Branches at the link below:

http://www.asce.org/uploadedFiles/ Regions_Sections_Branches/Publications_and_Resources/Section%20 and%20Branch%20Best%20Practices%20Guide%209-5-13.pdf

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plishes one of our top six Texas Section 2013-2014 priorities - Community Involvement. It crosses over to another goal - To Be More Visible.

Let’s get involved and stay involved, so we can make a difference! Continued from Region 6 News Page 9

The Board of Direction met March 21-22 after the Legislative Fly-In. One of the main issues was strategic planning.

Several board members have emphasized that we need to revisit the ASCE Strategic Plan at the society level. What goals and objectives will take ASCE where we need to go in the next 10, 20 or 30 years? Many of you are aware of our three major strategic initiatives 1. Infrastructure 2. Sustainability 3. Raise the Bar There is also the Global Initiative developed to reach out to other countries around the world that have ASCE Branches and Sections in Region 10. It is very important for Board Members to have your input, as ASCE members, concerning our strategic planning and current strategic initiatives. As the Region 6 Director, please do not hesitate to contact me regarding any issues that are important to you, as a member of ASCE. Sincerely, Ken Morris PE PTOE Region 6 Director Civil Engineers are Global Leaders Building a Better Quality of Life

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Branches Recognize Outstanding Engineers Written by: Christina L. Hickey PE With our profession filled with so many exceptionally talented engineers, it is a truly outstanding feat to stand out amongst your peers. Please take a moment to congratulate the following members that were recognized by their respective branch as being the Engineer of the Year or Young Engineer of the Year:

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Engineer of the Year Award • Sean Merrell, PE, PTOE (Dallas Branch) • Steve Duncan, PE (Brazos Branch) • Linda Barlow, PE (Austin Branch) • Robert Gonzalez, PE (El Paso Branch) Young Engineer of the Year Award • Clinton Hoover, PE (Fort Worth Branch) • Brad Hernandez, PE (Dallas Branch) • Stephen Maldonado Jr., PE (Brazos Branch) Eric Fisher PE VP-Educational JULY 2014 - ENVISIONTM RATING SYSTEM AUGUST 2014 - UPDATE ON ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS – TDLR SEPTEMBER 2014 - NEPA DELEGATION TO TXDOT OCTOBER 2014 - TXDOT UPDATE ON FUNDING ENERGY SECTOR ROADWAYS NOVEMBER 2014 - TEXAS DEPT OF INSURANCE UPDATE ON WIND STORM CODE DECEMBER 2014 GEOTECHNICAL TOPIC BY JEAN LOUIS BRIAUD PhD, PE, D.GE, Dist.M.ASCE

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9th Annual Offshore Technology Hall of Fame Honorees.

Photo by Bruce Bennett 2014 9th Annual ASCE OTC Hall President), G. Abdel Ghoneim, of Fame Gala In early May, Ngok Lai, Abbas Sarmad, and Bil

ASCE hosted the 9th Annual OTC Hall of Fame Gala Dinner at the Petroleum Club in Houston. Held in conjunction with the Offshore Technology Conference, this event honors outstanding papers that have offered innovation, vision, direction and lasting impact on design, construction or installation within the offshore industry. Since its inception, the ASCE OTC Hall of Fame has honored 67 papers and 120 authors from among the 11,000 technical papers presented at OTC. Presiding at this year’s event were Dave Wisch PE along with ASCE President Randall Over PE. Six outstanding papers were honored and honorees in attendance (photo above) included: R. Brad Campbell PhD, J. Dewaine Bogard, Peter W. Marshall, Robert Gilbert PhD, Marvin Peterson, Frans Kopp, Richard Swanson PhD, Don Allen, and Carl Langner. Bernadette Tang attended on behalf of Wilson Tang, and Doug Fairchild attended on behalf of Tiny von Rosenberg. Preceding dinner, five Diplomates were inducted into the Academy of Coastal, Ocean, Port and Navigation Engineers.

Andrew H. Cairns (COPRI Vice

Stewart (COPRI Marine Renewable Energy Chair). Billy Edge, Jim Dailey and Jane M. Smith conducted the awards ceremony.

Angela Lang Matthews PE Senior Engineer/ Project Manager at Hayden Consultants

engineering firm IDS Engineering Group has named Timothy Buscha PE to be the incoming President. Buscha has been with IDS for more than 10 years, most recently serving as Senior Vice President. Prior to joining IDS, he worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service.

William Espey Named ASCE Distinguished Member

William “Bill” Espey PE D.WRE, Austin, Texas, will be installed in October in Panama City, Panama at the ASCE Annual Conference as a Distinguished Member.

J.N. Reddy PhD Awarded Raymond D. Mindlin Medal“For outstanding contri-

butions to the development of higher-order shear deformation theories of beam, plates, and shells and their computational models.” Dr. Reddy will receive the award during the Engineering Mechanics Institute 2014 Conference at McMaster University, Dexter Bacon PE Appoint- Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Aued Principal Consultant gust 5-8, 2014.

Hayden Consultants is pleased to announce another expansion of our services and team. To support growing demand, Angela Lang Matthews PE, has joined Hayden Consultants as Senior Engineer/ Project Manager to lead the water and wastewater service line.

PSI has appointed Dexter Bacon, PE a Principal Consultant for their Geotechnical Engineering service line. He will be the primary Principal Consultant for PSI’s Austin and Harker Heights offices. Mr. Bacon is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.

He is based in PSI’s San Antonio operations office where he serves a dual role as a Chief Engineer. He has been with PSI since October 2013.

Deputy district engineer earns Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer certification

Dr. Edmond J. Russo Jr., PE, D.CE, D.NE, deputy district engineer for Programs and Project Management for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District, was named a Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer (D.WRE) of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers (AAWRE), a subsidiary of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) after Timothy Buscha PE named earning the certification TuesPresident of IDS Engineerday. ing Group Texas consulting texasce.org

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Membership Report

Travis Attanasio PE Membership Chair

As the Texas Section transitions from the first 100 years and into the next 100 we can look back on the Centennial Membership Drive recruitment efforts and give a bit of congratulations. Our overall Section membership numbers remain strong and renewals are at an all-time high; now comes the hard part - retaining them. As an ASCE member, you know the value of your membership - the technical information available, the limitless networking opportunities, and fringe benefits such as cheaper car insurance, but ask yourself, is it a no-brainer for you to want to renew? Our current members are just as important, if not more so, than prospects. So while we have spent the Cen-

tennial Year recruiting now is the time for each ASCE member to show other members that, what they signed up for is legitimate and that we’re true to our word about making ASCE the best fit for them. Interact with each other, engage members and non-members alike at events, tell people exactly what you get out of ASCE, how much you put in, and what more you want. Let’s all embrace a positive strategy where we show our members how much we appreciate them; because without all of us, ASCE will not survive.

Jackhammer Elegies: Crime Novel Review The Jackhammer Elegies is a story that perfectly blends the ingredients of a Tom Clancy novel and the life of a typical civil engineer. The story follows Brett A Pope PE Scott Carter, a structural Senior Director at Large engineer from Arlington, Virginia, that gets thrown into a not-so-typical journey to protect the public health and welfare from a terrorist that goes by the codename, “Jackhammer”. You may wonder how a civil engineer can find himself assisting the FBI fighting terrorism. It appears that Scott and Jackhammer have a background and ways of thinking that are very much alike. They are also linked by the fact that Jackhammer tried to demolish the building that Scott worked hard to design while he happened to be inside!

The book offers many references that a civil engineer likely has dealt with during his or her career, and it gives the public a good perspective on the importance of our profession. There are also many references that would make a civil engineer chuckle; discussions about architects, engineering introvert/extrovert jokes, and discussion about eating rubber chicken at ASCE Section meetings to name a few.

Overall the book is very well written. Mr. Jaeger does a fine job of starting off with the action, developing the characters and storyline, and creating the suspense with twists and turns up until the very end. You don’t have to be an engineer to enjoy this book. I would recommend it to anyone that enjoys reading suspenseful novels on par with the ones written by Tom Clancy and others similar to him. I hope Mr. Jaeger has more in the works.

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Younger Members’ Corner

Brian Ridley PE Younger Member Chair

Dallas Branch Younger Member Month By: Fabian Herrera, Dallas Branch Younger Member Chair

During the month of May, The Dallas Branch Younger Members coordinated the monthly meeting, gathered for a social event, and joined together for a community outreach event.

As the Dallas Branch Director, Julie Jones successfully assumed the responsibilities of the Branch President for the monthly luncheon.

Coordinating the monthly meeting gave me a better understanding of what goes into planning each of the meetings, as well as how to lead a large group. I feel more branches should have a younger member month to let the YM’s step up and take the lead. The YM will be leading the chapter in the future why not start now! – Julie Jones, Dallas Branch Director

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I always have a great time at our YM happy hours and the one at Henderson Tap House was no different! I enjoyed catching up with my friends and meeting new people. Great place to network, exchange contact info, and learn about each other’s latest job and social adventures! - Angela Matthews, Dallas Branch President-Elect

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A Short History of the Colorado River Streamgage at Austin’s Congress Avenue Bridge Melinda Luna PE History and Heritage Committee Chair

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United States Geological Survey established a streamgage on the Congress Avenue Bridge in 1897. This site measured several floods in 1833, 1842, 1852, 1869, and 1870 before the establishing of the gage.

In 1899, the streamgage was a staff gage with painted increments in the middle pier. The staff measurements could be seen from the banks of the Colorado River and the stage (up to 40 Photograph, June 15, 1935; University of North Texas Libraries, ft.) could be seen. The gage site would The Portal to Texas History, Austin History Center, Austin Public Library later measure stages for floods includat the time; only 12 sites were gaged in Texas in ing the flow from the failure of the Austin Dam. 1900 and only 150 by 1925. It was only after much The flow measurement helped to estimate flows flooding that legislation was enacted which creatfor the points downstream and to warn residents ed a source of funds to place water gages and for in the river’s pathway. Other memorable floods the measurement of flow-at-stage at several sites. measured at the site included the floods of 1922, 1935, 1936, and 1938. There are several photo- With the building of Lake Travis as a flood control graphs that became iconic images of flooding in reservoir, large floods like the floods of the 1930’s downtown Austin. All of these floods measured in would not occur because the flow was stopped excess of 100,000 cfs. by the dam. The site then began to be used to Notable people who recorded the floods include Thomas U. Taylor, a USGS hydrographer, a professor at the University of Texas and eventually Dean; he was an active member of the Texas Section. Another active member, E.C Bantel, was also engineer who worked to measure and compile data at the site.

show the power of the flood control of Lake Travis. Flood heights during 1952 and the floods of 1957 would be less severe in stage.

The gage site was later moved further downstream near US 183. The only current indication that flow was measured on Congress Avenue is the high water mark documenting the 1869 and 1935 floods.

The few public memories of these great floods that The data captured at the Congress Avenue Bridge impacted the City of Austin are the photographs site provided the designers of Mansfield Dam archived by the Austin Public Library and made valuable information to design the dam. Having available on The Portal To Texas History website. flow data on sites such as this one was uncommon

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