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WISCONSIN CHAPTER AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLUMBING ENGINEERS PO Box 13593, Wauwatosa, WI 53213

ASPE News May 2019, Vol. 33, No. 5

CHAPTER OFFICERS PRESIDENT

Jill Imig, P.E.

HGA

333 East Erie St

Milwaukee, WI 53202

e-mail: [email protected]

VICE PRESIDENT, TECHNICAL

Aaron Bock, P.E.

Erdman Company

1 Erdman Place

Madison, WI 53717


VICE PRESIDENT, LEGISLATIVE

TJ Smith, P.E.

Ring & DuChateau, LLP

17400 W. Capital Drive

Brookfield, WI 53045

E-mail: [email protected]

ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY

Ryan Koenig

HGA

333 East Erie St

Milwaukee, WI 53202


CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

Shawn Royster

H.J. Pertzborn

802 John Nolen Drive

Madison, WI 53713


VICE PRESIDENT, MEMBERSHIP

Richard E. Davison

Soderholm & Associates

W134 N4973 Campbell Dr

Menomonee Falls, WI 53051


TREASURER

Mark Dahl

Hydro-Flo

3655 N 124th St

Brookfield, WI 53005


AFFILIATE LIAISON

Dan Schmidt

Badgerland Trading Co.

2415 S. 170th St.

New Berlin, WI 53151

Email: [email protected]

ASPE Young Professionals (AYP) Liaison

Jon Millard

HGA

333 East Erie St

Milwaukee, WI 53202


NEWSLETTER EDITOR

Steve G. Mellone

Northland Sales, Inc.

17949 W. Lincoln Ave.

New Berlin, WI 53146


WEBMASTER

Steven Skattebo

RTM Engineering Consultants LLC

316 North Milwaukee St Ste 560

Milwaukee, WI 53202

Email: [email protected]

Local Chapters Are Not Authorized to Speak for the Society www.aspewi.org

May Chapter Meeting

New Methods of Legionella

Control—KILL and CAPTURE

Guest Speakers: Rich Davison, Water Control Corp.

Date: May 23 2019

Time: Social Hour 5:00

Dinner and Presentation 6:00

Location: TBD in Madison area

Cost: $ 20 members

$ 5 students

$ 25 non-members

Please RSVP by EOD on Monday May 20

to: Aaron RSVP Link

Save the Date

ASPE Brewers Outing—Sept 19 in Rexnord Suite

Due to limited availability tickets will be limited to ASPE

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From The

President’s Desk

By Jill Imig, P.E.

Congratulations to our very own student member Nora

Ureche who was awarded an Alfred Steele Scholarship to

pursue a degree in Architectural Engineering from

MSOE!

Thank you to NIBCO for the fun night of Networking at

AXE MKE!

It’s hard to believe that this is the last technical session of

the 2018-2019 season already - this year has seem to pass

by exceptionally fast! Reflecting back I am so proud of

all that we have accomplished as a chapter. Wisconsin

remains a strong solid chapter and the full credit for that

goes to our membership. I always enjoy coming to the

meetings and seeing the mix of age ranges and how every-

one openly interacts with each other. My goal is to always

make ASPE a welcoming experience for members and

visitors alike. Looking back to when I first joined ASPE

as a student member in 2006, I can remember often being

the youngest and the only female at the meeting, yet I

never felt singled out or like I wasn’t welcome. Kudos to

all of you for making this the greatest chapter in ASPE!

For those of you that were following all of the emails sent

out in the last month you saw that April was a very busy

month. We started the month out by a visit from ASPE

President Carol Johnson. Carol spend a full day at MSOE

speaking with the students and meeting with leader-

ship. In the evening, Carol presented to SWE on the topic

of “Making it in Leadership”. The presentation was well

received by all in attendance and I must not that a good

portion of the room was young men. I was inspiring to see

Carol’s message impact such a great group of future lead-

ers. We also had the honor of providing a special meeting

in which Carol presented to the chapter on what the Na-

tional board has been up to and what we can expect to see

in the future. The meeting turn out was small, but I think

those in attendance would agree that Carol and her board

on are the right track and we can expect great things in the

near future. The last event of the month was the AYP

networking event at AXE MKE. We had a blast (and I

came out of the night with $25)! This truly was a full

night of fun, laughs, learning and perhaps a few bruises or

two. Thank you to NIBCO for sponsoring this event.

Looking ahead to the summer, we will again be doing a

Brewer Game and a golf outing. I am still working out the

details of the Brewer Game as we needed to adjust the

format slightly this year due the lack of ticket availability.

Look for the sign up to come out shortly. Our golf outing

will be August 15 at the Broadlands Golf Club. Look for

the sign-up to come out at the end of June.

Hope to see you at the meeting!

Registration for the 2019 ASPE Tech Symposium is open! Join your peers on October 24-27 at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Hotel for the 2019 ASPE Tech Sympo-sium, which will offer numerous opportunities for net-working and professional development, including the popular Product Show on Thursday night. You can regis-ter now at aspe.org/2019tech.

WOA scholarship will help a deserving member at-tend the 2019 ASPE Tech Symposium The scholarship will cover the registration fee, special events, roundtrip airfare, hotel accommodations, airport transportation, and meals, as well as a one-year ASPE membership renewal. To be eligible, you must be a fe-male student enrolled in an engineering program at a college/university or employed in the engineering field with less than five years of work experience. Applica-tions are due May 31

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From the

Vice-President, Legislative By TJ Smith, P.E.

Hello ASPE Members,

Now that the winter weather is hopefully behind us I thought it

would be a perfect time to discuss freeze protection within

plumbing systems. I hope that none of you had to deal with the

issue of a frozen or burst pipe over the winter but I would doubt

that that’s the case.

If you have ever been a part of a project that has had freezing

issues within the plumbing system you know there are a consid-

erable amount of resources spent to restore service when pipes

and mains freeze. This is especially true when you take into

account the water damaged caused by burst pipes, the potential-

ly difficult working conditions and the urgency from the facility

to repair the damages.

Most applications for freeze protection seem straight forward

enough on projects but there are always situations that aren’t as

clear. For example, if an architect shows plumbing fixtures on

an exterior wall should those branch lines be insulated? Should

they be installed with heat trace? Knowing when to account for

these circumstances can save hours a back tracking, finger

pointing and stress during the cold winter months in Wisconsin.

According the Michael Frankel’s book, Facility Piping Sys-

tems, it was believed that when ice formed inside a pipe or ves-

sel, it started on the pipe wall and grew uniformly inward until

the entire pipe was blocked. It was also thought that the only

apparent difference between the freezing that occurred in static

and flowing water was the difference in the rate due to the heat

created by the flowing water.

In actuality, it was found that as the ambient temperature fell,

an ice-water mixture was produced in the shape of rippled ice

surfaces that oved along with the water flow of water. This mix-

ture was found to be in the shape of a taper in cross section with

the smaller end pointed downstream. Further lowering of the

ambient temperature did not lead to thickening of the ice but

rather, a progressively closer spacing of the narrow ice bands.

In order to prevent the freezing of water in underground piping

systems, the pipes must be buried far enough below grade so

that the soil used as backfill provides enough insulation from

the air temperature to prevent the freezing process from start-

ing.

The most common way to protect interior water lines from

freezing is to either drain the line during the winter months or to

heat trace the portion of the system exposed to freezing condi-

tions. Heat tracing is typically achieved by an electric cable

installed within the supply piping insulation that maintains a

temperature above freezing conditions.

I hope everyone will enjoy the warm weather to come and I

look forward to seeing everyone at the next ASPE meeting.

From the

ASPE Young Professionals Liaison By Jonathan Millard

Happy May!

Last month was a busy one for our chapter! Between the

national president’s visit, our regular ASPE meeting, and

our Axe Throwing networking event, we had a lot going

on!

I want to thank Evan McSorley and Aaron Kilburg from

Nibco for sponsoring the Axe Throwing event! We had a

great turnout of engineers, contractors, and reps all get-

ting together for a fun night of axe throwing and network-

ing.

As a chapter, our goal is to have 2 or 3 AYP networking

events a year, geared towards the younger professional

but open to all chapter members. If you have an idea for a

fun event that brings together professionals or have an

interest in sponsoring and/or co-sponsoring an event, feel

free to reach out to me!

Looking forward besides the Chapter Meeting on Le-

gionella, we have the annual brewer’s game and chapter

golf outing coming up this summer. Both events always

have great turnout and are a fun time; we’ll hope to see

you there!

From the

Vice-President, Technical By Aaron Bock, PE

Hello everyone,

This month we have a presentation by Rich Davison from

Soderholm on new methods of controlling Legionella. In

plumbing systems. Rich has been working in water treat-

ment for 8 years with Water Control Corporation compa-

ny. He is currently in technical/engineering sales for the

company. As a UW Whitewater alumnus, Rich has many

years of industry experience. He has experience as a

member of ASPE (membership VP), ASSE instructor for

Cross Connection Control and product technical special-

ist. Rich has been involved with the design, construction,

installation, and commissioning of many of commercial

water treatment systems including softening, high purity

water, filtration, disinfection and water reclaim equip-

ment. Water Control is a 46-year-old industry leading

manufacturer with thousands of water treatment systems

installed nationwide. Currently, they are very active in

legionella and pathogen control, water reclamation sys-

tems (rainwater, graywater, condensate, etc) and high pu-

rity water systems (reverse osmosis and deionized water)

for commercial, industrial and institutional applications.

See you all at the next meeting.

From the Vice President of

Membership

By Rich Davison

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The ASPE membership is expanding in April and into

May. We have several new members that are looking to join

us over the last few weeks:

Welcome back Matthew Marciniak of IAPMO! This brings

our current membership very close to the 140 mark at 137 and

counting!

The ASPE connect platform is very active with daily updates

and key membership benefits to take advantage of. We also

have an updated CEU online with ASPE June 19th to put on

your calendars. Legionella & pathogen control will be pre-

sented and discussed. You will not want to miss out!

Happy Birthday in May fellow ASPE members!!

Thomas R. Boehnen

Travis Lee Buchholz

Sheila M. Downing CPD

Paul Ginter

Brad Horning

Thomas King RD

Patrick Shawn O'Neill

David A. Rawls

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