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By now the turkey has probably been digested and you’re right in the middle

of the holidays. The leaves have fallen and the year is coming to a close. I would like to look back and see what we’ve been able to accomplish. We’ve

had tours of such nice plants such as Gresham, Forest Grove and Durham.

We’ve had two very good workshops on activated sludge and microbiology.

Now we’re planning for 2013. We’ll announce those plans in future newslet-

ters once they are a little firmer.

We’ve had members come and members go. I am particularly excited that many of our new members are fairly new to their careers as well. Many of the-

se new members seem to know what has taken me close to twenty years to

figure out. That the more people you know in this field, the easier it will be to

move around or advance if you choose. The more activities you join in and the

more skills you acquire; and the more valuable you become to your employer

and to other people as well.

Some may lament that many of the folks they meet are much like them, just

beginning to build their career, but one of these days they won’t be building

their career, they will have built it. You may have heard people say, “It’s not

what you know, but who you know.” I don’t believe that, but I do believe that the people you know are the

ones who know what you are capable of. I am fortunate to know a number of exceptional people in this field. I

wish I could say, it was part of my grand plan, but to be honest, it was more of dumb luck of getting to work

with people who know a lot of great people.

You need to be able to do a good job or it won’t matter who you know. So if someone were to ask me, “How

can I build my career?” I would tell them to do a good job and network. Once you’re done with a task, re-

view it and see how you could do it better next time. You need to set high standards, but don’t get too hung

up on being perfect. But right after doing a good job, the second most important thing is to network. Go to

short schools and conferences. Offer to give presentations. I know that there are many

people who can give presentations better than I can, but I still try to give a least one presentation a year. I do that for a few

reasons;

If I keep giving them, I’m bound to get better.

I happen to believe that I have knowledge that doesn’t get

passed on very often. I get a chance to meet different people and we can learn

from each other.

Many people loathe giving presentations, so giving

presentations is a great way to stand out from the

crowd.

As in life, 2012 had its share of sorrows and triumphs. Here is hoping that 2013 will be even better. Happy Holidays!

Joel Borchers, President Lower Columbia Section ([email protected])

QUARTERLY E-NEWSLETTER

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

4TH QUARTER 2012 DECEMBER 2012

PACIFIC NORTHWEST CLEAN WATER ASSOCIATION

LOWER COLUMBIA SECTION

Inside this issue:

What is PNCWA, LCS, YP? 2

YP Event: Bridgeport Brewery Tour 3, 4

Wastewater Math Challenge 5

Summary: Microbiology Workshop 5

Upcoming Tour: Sulzer Pumps 6

Stockholm Junior Water Prize 2013 6

PNCWA Mentorship Program 7

PNCWA - LCS Contacts 9

Calendar of Events 10

Solutions to Wastewater Math Challenge 11

The Young Professionals division of the PNCWA LCS

is open to anyone under 35 years of age or with less

than 10 years of experience in the clean water indus-

try. LCS’s YP events are held quarterly and expose

rising professionals to the fundamentals of

wastewater treatment technology. Industry profes-

sionals are encouraged to attend as well. Each event

is designed to promote learning specific to our in-

dustry. Events range from touring municipal

wastewater treatment plants, breweries or even hap-

py hour events for networking. If you have an event

you would like to suggest or to learn more about the

PNCWA, please contact the YP chair:

Dana Devin-Clarke ([email protected]) or

More information on events, as well interesting news bits from around the web can be found on

the group’s Facebook page at www.facebook.org/LCSYP.

PNCWA is a professional organization for people in clean water industries in the states of Ida-

ho, Oregon, and Washington. Members include wastewater treatment plant operators, consult-

ing engineers, scientists, water and wastewater treatment equipment manufacturers and repre-

sentatives, and students.

Mission Statement:

“Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association (PNCWA) is dedicated to preserving and enhancing

the water quality in the states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. We promote the technical devel-

opment of our members, the dissemination of information to the public and the advancement of

science needed to protect the water environment.”

What is Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association (PNCWA)?

What is Lower Columbia Section

(LCS)?

“A young professional is

anyone under 35 years of age or anyone with

less than 10 years of

experience.”

PNCWA– LCS E-NEWSLETTER 4TH QUARTER 2012

The Lower Columbia Section is one region of the PNCWA encompassing Portland (OR) and

surrounding areas of Northwest Oregon.

What’s Going On in the Lower Columbia Section?

See what’s new, find opportunities for training, and meet your officers at our website. We are

always looking for people interested in getting involved. Check out the Lower Columbia Sec-

tion’s website and the PNCWA at http://lowercolumbia.pncwa.org.

What is the Young Professionals (YP) division?


The tour consisted of an in depth look behind the scenes at

the Bridgeport Brewery in NW Portland. Todd Fleming, the

cellarmaster, took us through each step of the brewing pro-

cess. During the tour, we tasted roasted malt before it was

milled and lautered, handled fresh hops in the walk in freez-

er, visited the laboratory where testing takes place and the

two proprietary yeast strains are stored, and viewed each

step of the brewing process from milling, mashtun, fermen-

tation on down to the bottling line. The fall PNCWA YP tour

event was a widely attended event with 17 attendees rang-

ing from students at Clackamas County Community College,

Portland Community College and Portland State University

to professional junior engineers.

Fun Facts from the Tour:

• Bridgeport Brewery is the first craft

brewery in Oregon which opened

in 1984 under the name Columbia

Brewery.

• The brewery produces over

100,000 barrels per year (~31 gal-

lons per barrel in beer/distillery

use)

• All ingredients and bottling materi-

als are local. Malt and Hops comes

from the Willamette valley, with

malt coming from only 8 miles

away. Bottles come from 82nd

street.

YOUNG PROFESSIONAL SECTION

TOUR: Bridgeport Brewery Tour


• The TV show Leverage has built an exact replica of the Bridgeport Brewery in Clackamas County for

filming purposes.

• Bridgeport purposely damages six packs of beer using heat and sunlight to safeguard the quality of each

batch by replicating the taste caused by possible sources of damage.

• The effect of adding Fluoride to the drinking water may change the taste of beers brewed in Portland.

Currently the brewing community is divided over the support of this measure.

• The brewery uses a heat exchangers to scavenge heat from the waste stream to be reused in the brewing

process and heat the brewpub.

• The brewery sells the

spent grain to local dairy

farmers and composts all

food waste from the

restaurant resulting in a

minimal footprint.

• Four employees bottle

the entire Bridgeport

brewery line, which is done

entirely on site in NW

Portland.

If you would like to receive

information about future

events or have any

suggestions on future tour

ideas please email, Dana

Devin-Clarke

([email protected])

FARWELL: Andrew de Boer


Andrew de Boer, a recent Kennedy/Jenks employee and the Section Director

of LCS has moved back to his hometown of Vancouver, BC. He was the events

coordinator and also the interim Awards chair for LCS.

His contributions to LCS were invaluable and the LCS committee will miss him

deeply.

In Vancouver, Andrew will be working for a municipal district (Metro Vancou-

ver) on a large UV project. If you would like to keep in touch with Andrew his

personal email is [email protected].

An operator needs to mix household bleach (5% strength) with a small amount of sodium hypochlorite (12% strength) to provide enough disinfection until the supply truck delivers on

Monday. The operator purchased 11 containers of bleach with 2 gallons in each and added it

to a day tank which held 15 gallons of sodium hypochlorite. What was the new concentration of the mixed solution and the total number of gallons available to feed during the weekend?

Solutions on Page 12.

WASTEWATER MATH CHALLENGE:

SUMMARY: Wastewater Aquatic

Microbiology Workshop The Wastewater Aquatic Microbiology workshop was hosted by the PNCWA-

Lower Columbia Section in conjunction with Clackamas Community College

on September 13-14, 2012. The workshop was conducted by Dr. Matthew

LaForce, the Department Chair of Engineering Science, at Clackamas Com-

munity College. The workshop was well attended and offered 1.4 CEUs for

attendees. Topics included all aspects of wastewater microbiology from

basic bacteria identification, microscope use and slide making to wastewater

treatment plant operation based on plant microbiology.

The consensus of the attendees was that the instructor’s enthusiasm made the course an enjoya-

ble experience. We are pleased with the feedback and look forward to offering similar opportu-nities for continued education to our Lower Columbia Section members.


PNCWA to host 2013 SJWP in Portland—volunteers needed!

PNCWA is proud to be selected again as the national host for the 2013 Stockholm Junior Water Prize! The competition will be held next June for

more than 50 students in Portland, Oregon.

A planning team is forming and we need many volunteers! What can be

more fun—Portland and enthusiastic students in June. We will have a range

of opportunities for PNCWA members to assist with the competition—and

the more hands the more fun and the less work for any one member. Please join us in organizing this great event. Contact Catherine Chertudi at 208-384

-3912 or [email protected]. You can review the competition

information at www.sjwp.org.

VOLUNTEER: Stockholm Junior

Water Prize—Portland 2013

Date: December 14th, 2012 (Friday)

Place: 2800 N.W. Front Ave, Portland, 97210

Phone: (503) 226-5200

(Meeting point at Front entrance gate)

Time: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Potential CEUs: 0.2 (currently applied)

RSVP Deadline: Email

[email protected]

by December 10th

Course Topics:

• Pump Hydraulics and Applica-tions

• Performance Curves and operat-ing regions

• System Curves

• Net Positive Suction Head • Requirements and Available

(NPSHR, NPSHA), Suction Specific Speed

• Cavitation and recirculation

• Impeller design and defect on curve shape

• Altering pump performance

• Vibration in centrifugal pumps • Rerate precautions

• Maintenance Basics

Facility Tour: Pumps 101 Presentation

and Sulzer Pumps Tour

• Limited number of places available.

• Hard close-toed shoes required.

• Eye protection will be provided by Sulzer.

• Parking is limited

PNCWA- Lower Columbia Section invites you to attend

a Pumps 101 presentation by Roger Davey, Advance

Engineering Consultant, with Sulzer Pumps (US) Inc,

followed by a pump manufacturing facility tour conducted by Sulzer Pumps, Inc.

The Lower Columbia Section strives to provide educational opportunities for those in the

field of wastewater treatment. We work to do that by offering social events, scholarships, workshops and promoting plant tours around the area. None of this would be possible

without the generous support of our sponsors.

On behalf of the entire Lower Columbia Section of the Pacific Northwest Clean Water As-sociation, we would like to thank:

SUPPORTERS OF PNCWA-

LOWER COLUMBIA SECTION


ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES ARE NOW AVAILABLE!

Contact Joel Borchers at [email protected] for information on sponsorship and advertising.

Thanks to these sponsors!Thanks to these sponsors!Thanks to these sponsors!Thanks to these sponsors!

Brown and Caldwell

Carollo Engineering

Clean Water Services

HDR

Murray Smith and Associates

and a special thank you to

Richwine Environmental.

PNCWA – Lower Columbia Section CONTACTS


Name Officers E-MAIL

Joel Borchers President [email protected]

Dana Devin-

Clarke

Vice President &

Young Professionals

Committee Co-Chair

[email protected]

Bhargavi

Maremanda Secretary-Treasurer [email protected]

Priya Dhanapal Section Director /

Newsletter Co-Chair [email protected]

Tim Munro Scholarship Chair [email protected]

Jeff Hart

Newsletter Co-Chair [email protected]

Susan Gierga Active Member [email protected]

Mike Kebbe Active Member [email protected]

WEF/PNCWA/LCS – Mark your Calendars!


Contact Priya Dhanapal at [email protected] to advertise your event in our newsletter.

When Where What Affiliation Contact

Dec 12, 2012 Webinar

Preparing To

Implement the Revised Total Coliform Rule

AWWA http://apps.awwa.org/eBusMAIN/Default.aspx?

TabID=465&ProductId=29103552

Dec 14, 2012 Portland, OR Sulzer Pump

Tour LCS [email protected]

Feb 24-26, 2013

Indianapolis, IN

Disinfection and Public

Health Confer-

ence

WEF http://www.wef.org/disinfection/

Mar 26-28, 2013

Clackamas Community College

ORWEF -Water Environment

School LCS http://depts.clackamas.edu/wet/new_page_1.htm

Sep 15-18, 2013

Bend, OR PNCWA Annu-al Conference

PNCWA http://www.pncwa.org/calendar---events

We’re on the web! http://lowercolumbia.pncwa.org


(C1 V1) + (C2 V2) = (C3 V3)

C1 = 5 V1 = 11 x 2 gallons = 22

C2 = 12

V2 = 15 V3 = (V1 + V2) = 22 + 15 = 37 gallons

(5 X 22) + (12 X 15) = C3 (37) (110) + (180) = C3 (37)

(290) = C3 (37) 290/37 = C3

7.8% ≈ C3

If you have an interesting project, a new process, or are just plain proud of your plant, let us know. We can organize a Plant Profile for your facility. Contact Priya Dhanapal and let her know that

you want to show off!([email protected])

Want to feature your plant in our newsletter?

SOLUTIONS TO WASTEWATER MATH CHALLENGE FROM PAGE 5

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