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Spring 2014 | Volume 84 | No.2
Non-Profit Organization
U.S. Postage PaidAustin, Texas
PERMIT NO. 879
2013 Halloween Floodon Austin’s Onion Creek
STEM Outreach
Book Review: The Jackhammer Elegies
Join Us At CECON 2014September 17 - 19
San Luis Resort & Spa
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In This IssueSpring 2014 | Volume 84 | Number 2
Calendar of Events 4
CPD Opportunities 4
President’s Message 5
Cover Story 62013 Halloween Flood on Austin’s Onion Creek
Message from the Executive Director 8
Report From Region 6 9
Branch News 10
Student’s Center 11
Outstanding Engineers 14
2014 Webinars 14
ASCE News 15
Membership Report 17
The Jackhammer Elegies Book Review 17
Younger Members’ Corner 18
Early Registration Discount For CECON 19
Employment Classifieds 20
Short History of the Flood Gage
at Congress Avenue Bridge,
Colorado River in Austin 21
Professional Directory 22
On the Cover: Old San Antonio Road. Photo by Austin Watershed Protection Department. TEXAS SECTION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERSEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Crespin Guzman PEOPERATIONS MANAGER: Elizabeth R. GreenwoodCOMMUNICATIONS MANAGER: Annemarie GasserDATA MANAGER: Lauren Marcotte1524 S. Interstate 35, Suite 180Austin, Texas 78704Phone: 512-472-8905E-mail: [email protected]: www.texasce.org
2013–2014 OFFICERSPRESIDENT: Tim C. Newton PEPAST PRESIDENT: John N. Furlong PEPRESIDENT ELECT: Curtis B. Beitel PEVP-EDUCATIONAL: Eric L. Fisher PEVP-EDUCATIONAL ELECT: Lawrence D. Goldberg PEVP-PROFESSIONAL: Patrick M. Beecher PEVP-PROFESSIONAL ELECT: Roman D. Grijalva PEVP-TECHNICAL: John D. Garcia PEVP-TECHNICAL ELECT: Peter E. Falletta PETREASURER: David J. MatochaASSISTANT TREASURER: Curtis R. Steger PE
DIRECTORS AT LARGESENIOR DIRECTOR AT LARGE: Brett A. Pope PESECOND YEAR DIRECTOR AT LARGE: Vanessa I. Rosales-Herrera PEFIRST YEAR DIRECTOR AT LARGE: Brad M. Hernandez PEFIRST YEAR DIRECTOR AT LARGE: Christina L. Hickey PE
SECTION DIRECTORSBrandon E. Hammann PE, Austin BranchRobert Lys Jr PE, Brazos BranchRussell R. Carter PE, Caprock BranchDevon K. Dreyer PE, Central Texas BranchAnthony B. Gavlik PE, Corpus Christi BranchChula B. Ellepola PE, Dallas BranchJ. Gilberto Andujo PE, El Paso BranchKimberly K. Cornett PE, Fort Worth BranchMartin D. Morris PE, High Plains BranchAndrea Cheng Ranft PE, Houston BranchArthur M. Clendenin PE, Northeast Texas BranchAlfonso A. Soto PE, Rio Grande Valley BranchJames A. Lutz PE, San Antonio BranchRobert C. Hickman PE, Southeast Texas BranchAndrew L. Mellen PE, West Texas Branch
ASCE - Region 6Kenneth B. Morris PEDirector and Board of Governors Chair 2014-2017Nancy S. Cline PEGovernor—Texas Section 2011–2014Ken A. Rainwater PhD PEGovernor—Texas Section 2012–2015Elvidio V. Diniz PEGovernor—New Mexico Section 2012–2015Jeremy P. Stahle PEGovernor—Oklahoma Section 2013-2016Sean P. Merrell PEGovernor—Appointed (Texas Section) 2013-2016
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Calendar of EventsTexas Section MeetingsJuly 11-13, 2014 Executive Committee
Meeting and Leadership DevelopmentCorpus Christi, TX
September 16-19, 2014
Texas CECON 2014,Galveston TX
Texas Civil Engineer DeadlinesSummer 2014 - Volume 84, No. 3June 13 Ad Insertion DeadlineMay 30 Copy Submittal DeadlineFall 2014 - Volume 84, No. 4August 28 Ad Insertion DeadlineAugust 8 Copy Submittal Deadline
CPD OpportunitiesTo enhance communications between ASCE and ASCE’s Regions, Sections, and Branches, Geographic Services is pleased to advise you of the following seminars sched-uled in our area:
San Antonio6/12/14 Financial Management for
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for Project PerformanceAustin5/18/15 EWRI CongressDetailed descriptions of seminars are available
at www.asce.org/knowledge-learning/ continuing-education/
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President’s Message Tim C. Newton PETexas Section President
The United States Congress Joint Economic Committee report on Science Technology Engi-neering and Math Education states:
The demand for STEM skilled workers is ex-pected to increase into the future. However, a smaller percentage of students are pursuing post-secondary STEM degrees.
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 de-serve.
As “Teach – Make a Difference”, at www.teach.com explains:
Reinvigorating interest in STEM subjects has been on the national agenda since the pub-lication of “A Nation at Risk” in 1983. Falling achievement in STEM subjects across all lev-els of education has prevented the United States from upholding our status as the glob-al 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 com-pete with other innovators around the world.”
The American Society of Civil Engineers is in a
unique position to help re-verse the trend of decreasing percentages of students grad-uating with degrees in STEM fields. As members of ASCE and as employees of compa-nies that depend on having an educated STEM work force, it is incumbent upon us to support and promote STEM.
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 avail-able 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 stu-dents, 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 CenTexE-Week)
• Brazos Branch – planning a program with local junior and senior high school students
• Dallas Branch – University of North Texas Student Chap-ter 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 Ed-ucation day
• High Plains Branch – K-12 STEM program• San Antonio Branch – Student centennial essay contest
on civil engineering history winners won iPads present-ed by Congressman Lamar Smith.
• West Texas Branch – Public outreach program visits var-ious schools and junior colleges
If your Branch has a program that is not listed, please email me at [email protected]. If your Branch has not started a program in this fo-cus area, I strongly encourage you to do so. Not only will your efforts help to bring more graduat-
Source: STEM Education: Preparing for the Jobs of the Fu-ture, Report by the Joint Economic Committee Chairman’s Staff, April 2012. Senator Bob Casey, Chairman.
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During the evening of October 30 and the morning hours of October 31, 2013, the City of Austin and Travis County experienced exten-sive flooding. On October 30, 2013, the Nation-al 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 wa-tershed) 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, William-son Creek, and Bull Creek all flooded out of their
2013Austin Onion CreekHalloween FloodBy Director Victoria Li PE, Watershed Protection Department, City of Austin
Flooded Onion Creek area from helicopter, October 31, 2013. Austin Police Department
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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 in vehicles in the Onion Creek watershed, and one was apparently homeless and did not escape the rising flood waters in Williamson Creek.
In the Onion Creek watershed, there were ap-proximately 750 homes flooded. Of these, 24 were completely destroyed, and 92 received sig-nificant damage. City-wide, approximately 825 homes received some level of flood damage ei-ther from creek flooding or from localized flood-ing. Localized flooding is flooding caused by un-dersized storm drain systems that generally occur away from creeks.
The Watershed Protection Department (WPD) of the City of Austin mobilized flood warning and field operations personnel prior to the storm. Barricades were pre-loaded and shift schedules were distributed. Our public information office tweeted the closed roads and flooding informa-tion through the Halloween night. WPD closed more than 40 roadways during the storm; worked
with the City’s Homeland Security and Emergen-cy Management Department by providing ground observations of flooding; and notified Austin Fire Department dispatch in two instances for swift water rescues of drivers, who had driven around barricades on flooded roadways. In the aftermath of the storm, WPD personnel remained active performing debris cleanup, damage assessment, and providing assistance to flood victims.
Properties in Onion Creek were built before mod-ern day floodplain regulations were implemented. Nevertheless, residents with substantially dam-aged homes are not allowed to rebuild back to pre-flood conditions without bringing the homes into compliance with the floodplain regulations (elevating the structure above the 100-year flood elevation, among other regulations). The City’s Watershed Protection, Code Compliance, and Planning and Development Review departments worked for weeks to provide residents with life safety permits that would allow them to secure
During and after flooding. Austin Fire Department
Water Rescue in lower Onion Creek. Austin Fire Department
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We will all remember 2013 as the centennial celebra-tion year, but how will we re-member 2014? Give it some thought in terms of, “What am I doing to make it mem-
orable and meaningful?” We 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 intro-duce newer and greater capabilities in upgraded equipment, software, processes, procedures and programming (our own P3 model). All with the ul-timate goal in mind that You, the member, are the benefactor!
By now, you should know that the Section meet-ing format has changed, but we are still in the im-plementation 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 collec-tive ATTITUDE on “just because we have not done it this way before, does not mean it’s not going to work”. We prefer a pos-itive outlook and with your help, it is bound to be successful.
The Section has entered into the ar-chiving business, relative to our institu-tional memory. As a result of the whole centennial effort and particularly the development of the history book, it be-came 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 soft-ware opens many doors for our mem-bers. It will provide access to records, photographs and articles for any Texas Section member or Branch across the
state. Searching for ASCE related materials will take minutes instead of hours. We are in the ear-ly 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 transporta-tion referendum in November. We are well into planning. If you’d like to act locally as a Branch Champion, contact Stephen Crawford ([email protected]) 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 experi-ence that is a fun way to take pride in being a Tex-as 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 be-ing 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!
Crespin Guzman PEExecutive Director
Message From The Executive Director
The Texas story begins with the Spanish conquistadors, men trained to survey and map this wild, new territory and design settlements. It’s all told in this beautifully designed hardcover book that contains over 200 striking images including some never-before-seen from the Tex-as Section Archives. Order your copy today!www.texasce.org/historybook
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report from region 6
Kenneth B. Morris PE PTOERegion 6 Director
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, Sec-tion and Branch officers from Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and student attendees from the University of Texas, Texas Tech University, Texas A&M, Okla-homa State University, New Mexico State University as well as many others. The Region 6 Board of Governors held a ses-sion 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 un-derstand the benefits.
We, as ASCE members and offi-cers, need to make sure that our Student Chapters are well aware of our Branch activities and en-courage 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 proj-ects 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 gradu-ation. 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 so-ciety. In January 2015, the MRLC will be held in Houston, spon-sored 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 Legisla-tive 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-s t r u c t u re R e p o r t 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 momen-tum going. This year we are go-ing 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 Transpor-tation 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 benefi-cial 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 web-site. If you are not a Key Contact member please consider joining up.
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Region 6 represents three Sections (Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas), 20 Branches, and 18 Stu-dent 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
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Christina L. Hickey PEFirst Year Director at Large
If you have ever attended a career fair at a local elemen-tary 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 fac-tor, 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 ele-mentary through high school:El Paso Branch• Members frequently attend career days at lo-
cal 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 liter-ature to both kids and adults regarding civil engineering.
Fort Worth Branch• The Branch attended the FUNRAISING Carni-
val in Saginaw, Texas and hosted a booth were children could build a bridge across the ‘flood-ed’ 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 be-cause they didn’t look good or strong enough!
Rio Grande Valley Branch• Members volunteered at their regional mid-
dle school MathCounts® competition serving as graders and proctors. Civil engineering bro-chures were handed out to all participants.
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 pre-senters served as the ‘substitute teacher’ for the day while presenting their topic. The pre-sentations included activities and even field trips. The Dallas Branch would be a great re-source 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 fil-ters, gravel, charcoal, etc.). The filters were then tested by pouring ‘contaminated’ water through the filters. The branch also demon-strated 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 de-cided 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 per-son, 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.
Branch News
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Student’s CenterWritten by: Heidi A. Broberg and Sam M. Payne LeTourneau University’s newly established ASCE Student Chapter, located in Longview, Texas, is off to a very successful start. Since the inception of the civil engineering program in Fall 2009, the program has seen dramatic improvements within only the first few years of oper-ation. This is evidenced by the graduation of first civil en-gineering class in May, as well as enrollment of the larg-est incoming freshman class to date. These accomplishments forecast a prom-ising future for the civil engineering program at LeTourneau University. In addition to these ac-complishments, LeTourneau University has also been approved as a new Student Chapter of ASCE in which students will be able to correlate their academic studies with real world applications of civil engineering.
LeTourneau’s Student Chapter has been active in the community of Longview this past year by par-ticipating in a Habitat For Humanity service proj-ect. The students dedicated their Saturday morn-ing to complete the construction of a new house close to campus. Students helped break concrete, install hardware, and landscape the yard. They were proud to take part in an event that helped their community. After witnessing the results of the service project, the Student Chapter will con-tinue to pursue service projects in the upcoming year to actively enhance and change the commu-nity of Longview for the better.
As well as being an active part of Longview’s com-munity, the Student Chapter has also met with many different ASCE affiliates this year. We were
privileged to host the ASCE Northeast Texas Branch meeting twice - including hosting U.S Congress-man Louie Gohmert for one meeting. The Student Chapter also met with the UT-Tyler Student Chap-ter at a combined meeting in early October. From
this experience, LeTourneau’s Stu-dent Chapter was able to make connections with UT-Tyler’s chap-ter as well as gain valuable in-sight into how a veteran Student Chapter func-tions - in order to improve our newborn chap-ter. LeTourneau’s Student Chapter
also had the opportunity to witness UT-Tyler’s planning for the regional Concrete Canoe Com-petition and assisted their Chapter in hosting the regional competition in April 2014.
Overall, the LeTourneau University Student Chap-ter is off to a tremendous start. After functioning the past two years as a civil engineering student club, LeTourneau’s new ASCE Student Chapter is honored to be recognized as an official ASCE Student Chapter. LeTourneau’s Student Chapter would like to thank our advisor Dr. Stephen Ayers, our civil engineering faculty, past student officers, the Northeast Texas Branch, the UT-Tyler ASCE Student Chapter and all of our insightful student members for the achievement of becoming an of-ficial ASCE Student Chapter.
Heidi Broberg and Sam Payne are the President and Vice President of the LeTourneau University Student Chapter.
New Student Chapter at LeTourneau University
Emily Rogers Photography
Christina L. Hickey PEFirst Year Director at Large
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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 togeth-er to buy out flood-prone homes within the On-ion Creek Forest, Onion Creek Plantation and Yar-rabee Bend neighborhoods.
The WPD has partnered with the Corps of Engi-neers since 1999 to find solutions to flooding in the Onion Creek watershed. Our joint study rec-ommended buying out 483 homes in the 25-year floodplain, restoring the riparian areas along On-ion 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 up-stream of William Cannon Drive, sustained the most damage during the Halloween Flood. There are 531 residences at risk of flooding in the 100-year floodplain in these neighborhoods. The WPD
plans to relocate as many of the residents as pos-sible 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 sav-ings from completed projects and reprioritization of a small number of Capital Improvement Proj-ects (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 proj-ect area, there are 371 homes remaining in the 100-year floodplain. The Watershed Protection Department is planning to leverage current an-
nual 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 unprec-edented magnitude and speed along Onion
Cars tossed like toys in Lower Onion Creek area. Watershed Protection Department, City of Austin
Flooded Onion Creek area from helicopter, October 31, 2013. Austin Police Department
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Creek. It taught us to sharp-en our tools in predicting the level of flooding with enough time for a complete dry weath-er 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 need-ed 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, con-struction or in administration, we are either helping or endan-gering another house, another family.
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/Publi-cations_and_Resources/Section%20and%20Branch%20Best%20Practic-es%20Guide%209-5-13.pdfEducation outreach accom-
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The Board of Direction met March 21-22 after the Legis-lative 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. Infrastructure2. Sustainability 3. Raise the BarThere is also the Global Initia-tive 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 Mem-bers to have your input, as ASCE members, concerning our stra-tegic planning and current stra-tegic initiatives. As the Region 6 Director, please do not hesitate to contact me regarding any is-sues that are important to you, as a member of ASCE. Sincerely, Ken Morris PE PTOE Region 6 DirectorCivil Engineers are Global Leaders Building a Better Quality of Life
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 in-volved, so we can make a differ-ence!
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Written by: Christina L. Hickey PE With our profession filled with so many excep-tionally talented engineers, it is a truly outstand-ing feat to stand out amongst your peers. Please take a moment to congratulate the following members that were recognized by their respec-tive branch as being the Engineer of the Year or Young Engineer of the Year:
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)
Branches Recognize Outstanding Engineers
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9th Annual ASCE OTC Hall of Fame Gala In early May, 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, vi-sion, direction and lasting impact on design, construction or instal-lation within the offshore indus-try. Since its inception, the ASCE OTC Hall of Fame has honored 67 papers and 120 authors from among the 11,000 technical pa-pers presented at OTC. Presiding at this year’s event were Dave Wisch PE along with ASCE President Randall Over PE. Six outstanding papers were hon-ored and honorees in attendance (photo above) included: R. Brad Campbell PhD, J. Dewaine Bog-ard, Peter W. Marshall, Robert Gil-bert PhD, Marvin Peterson, Frans Kopp, Richard Swanson PhD, Don Allen, and Carl Langner. Berna-dette 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
President), G. Abdel Ghoneim, Ngok Lai, Abbas Sarmad, and Bil Stewart (COPRI Marine Renew-able Energy Chair). Billy Edge, Jim Dailey and Jane M. Smith con-ducted the awards ceremony. Angela Lang Matthews PE Senior Engineer/ Project Manager at Hayden Con-sultantsHayden 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 wa-ter and wastewater service line.Dexter Bacon PE Appoint-ed Principal Consultant PSI has appointed Dexter Bacon, PE a Principal Consultant for their Geotechnical Engineering service line. He will be the primary Princi-pal Consultant for PSI’s Austin and Harker Heights offices. Mr. Bacon is a graduate of the Georgia Insti-tute of Technology with a Bache-lor 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.Timothy Buscha PE named President of IDS Engineer-ing Group Texas consulting
engineering firm IDS Engineer-ing 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 MemberWilliam “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 Award-ed 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 Con-ference at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Au-gust 5-8, 2014.Deputy district engineer earns Diplomate, Water Resources Engineer certi-ficationDr. Edmond J. Russo Jr., PE, D.CE, D.NE, deputy district engineer for Programs and Project Man-agement 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 Soci-ety of Civil Engineers (ASCE) after earning the certification Tues-day.
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Jackhammer Elegies: Crime Novel Review
Brett A Pope PESenior Director at Large
Membership Report Travis Attanasio PEMembership 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 ef-forts 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 net-working 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 mem-bers 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.
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
Scott Carter, a structural 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, “Jack-hammer”. You may wonder how a civil engineer can find himself assisting the FBI fighting terror-ism. 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 en-gineer likely has dealt with during his or her ca-reer, 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, de-veloping the characters and storyline, and creat-ing 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 any-one 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’ CornerDallas Branch - Younger Member MonthBy: Fabian Herrera, Dallas Branch Younger Member ChairDuring 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 success-fully assumed the responsibilities of the Branch President for the monthly luncheon.
Coordinating the monthly meeting gave me a better understanding of what goes into plan-ning 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 lead-ing the chapter in the future why not start now! – Julie Jones, Dallas Branch Director
The Happy Hour at Henderson Tap House in Knox-Henderson district gave the YM’s a chance to network over drinks and appetizers in a social setting.
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
Dallas Branch YMs gave two hours of their time to entertain a group of children at Dallas Life, a local homeless shelter. These opportunities help remind us of our responsibility to help make the world a better place. For more pictures of these events search for ASCE Younger Members of Dallas on Facebook.
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Left to Right: Sam Nahhas, Angela Matthews PE, Edie Lo-pez, Sasan Daneshvar. Photo by Fabian Herrera
Left to Right: Amal Ahmed, Jose Lopez, Fabian Herrera, Madara Blumberga, Morris Layton EIT. Photo by Fabian Herrera
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The United States Geological Sur-vey 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 ft.) could be seen. The gage site would later measure stages for floods includ-ing the flow from the failure of the Austin Dam. The flow measurement helped to estimate flows for the points downstream and to warn residents in the river’s pathway. Other memorable floods measured at the site included the floods of 1922, 1935, 1936, and 1938. There are several photo-graphs that became iconic images of flooding in downtown Austin. All of these floods measured in excess of 100,000 cfs.
Notable people who recorded the floods include Thomas U. Taylor, a USGS hydrographer, a pro-fessor at the University of Texas and eventually Dean; he was an active member of the Texas Sec-tion. Another active member, E.C Bantel, was also engineer who worked to measure and compile data at the site.
The data captured at the Congress Avenue Bridge site provided the designers of Mansfield Dam valuable information to design the dam. Having flow data on sites such as this one was uncommon
at the time; only 12 sites were gaged in Texas in 1900 and only 150 by 1925. It was only after much flooding that legislation was enacted which creat-ed a source of funds to place water gages and for the measurement of flow-at-stage at several sites.
With the building of Lake Travis as a flood control reservoir, large floods like the floods of the 1930’s would not occur because the flow was stopped by the dam. The site then began to be used to show the power of the flood control of Lake Tra-vis. 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 wa-ter mark documenting the 1869 and 1935 floods. The few public memories of these great floods that impacted the City of Austin are the photographs archived by the Austin Public Library and made available on The Portal To Texas History website.
Melinda Luna PEHistory and Heritage Committee Chair
A Short History of the Colorado River Streamgage at Austin’s Congress Avenue Bridge
Photograph, June 15, 1935; University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
Boone. Photograph, 1935; University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, Austin Public Library
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