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Date: Time: Location:

Thursday, May 16, 2019 5:30 pm - 7:45 pm Prairie House Restaurant 10001 Highway 380 Cross Roads, TX 76227

Sponsored by: Archer Western

Expansion of Riverbend Water Reclamation Plant Using Ballasted Activated Sludge

Speakers:

Sam Barraco, P.E. (Carollo) Jody Zabolio, P.E. (UTRWD)

Followed by plant tour at Upper Trinity Regional Water District’s Riverbend Water Reclamation Plant

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WEAT-NTS Newsletter May 2019

May 2019 Dinner Meeting

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Leadership Message

Greetings to all -

I look forward to seeing everyone at our May meeting at Prairie House Restaurant, followed by a plant tour hosted by the Upper Trinity Regional Water District. We’ll have a lot going on at the May meeting, including officer elections, recognition of several local science fair winners, and a presentation prior to the plant tour. The seating capacity is limited - please register early!

Phil Spitzer will take the reins as president when the “WEAT year” ends in June. Our nominating committee has recommended Sherri van der Wege to fill the Section Rep. role as Jeff Caffey moves to the Vice President role at the State level; Heather Wootton has been nominated as Secretary. Both of these nominees, along with the rest of our numerous officers and committee chairs, will continue to bring energy and enthusiasm to the North Texas Section!

Texas Water 2020 will be in Fort Worth – planning will begin soon, and numerous volunteers will be needed. As WEAT Co-Chair for the conference, I’d love to hear from anyone who would like a role in the conference.

As you’ll see on subsequent pages of this newsletter, we have an incredible team of volunteers working hard to do good things for our members, our communities, and for deserving students throughout the area. It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as president of the section for the last year, and it is exciting to know that we have so many active members ready and willing to help continue and expand our traditions.

See you at the May meeting!

President Message from the

Mark Perkins


WEAT-NTS & WEF Events

Date Event Location (*Tentative) Topic/Speaker (or contact)

5/16/19 WEAT-NTS Dinner Meeting (Plant Tour)

Prairie House Restaurant—Cross Roads, TX

Dinner followed by plant tour hosted by UTRWD and Carollo

5/18/19 Spring Trash Bash

Multiple Locations in Fort Worth

RSVP to Chris Vela

6/20/19 WEAT-NTS Dinner Meeting

TBD — Fort Worth* Summer Social

9/13/19 Daryl Hall Memorial Golf Tournament

Waterchase Golf Club — Fort Worth, TX Brandt Miller

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Daryl Hall Memorial Golf Tournament 2018 RecapThe 2018 Daryl Hall Memorial Golf Classic was a tremendous success thanks for our sponsors,

volunteers, host and golfers! The weather could not have been better and it included a heartwarming show of gratitude from the Hall family to John Bennet on the heels of the May 2018 graduation of

Jared from Tarleton State University (TSU) with his master’s degree and Stephanie from TSU with her bachelor’s degree. Both were honored as Outstanding Graduates in their respective degrees. Thanks

to all of our sponsors and donors, over $15,800 was raised in support of the Daryl Hall Scholarship Fund! In keeping with Daryl’s desire to give back to our industry and help others, the Daryl Hall

Memorial Scholarship Fund continues to extend financial assistance to employees of North Texas Utilities and their children for education thanks to your support. We hope to see you again this year!

2018 WINNERS

Taylor Perrine, Chase Bentley, Jamie Cavender, Jim Morgan (not pictured)

Richard Wagner, Adam Evans, Marc Cottingame, Lance Ferland

Andy Spicher, Matt Russell, Jim Beer, Bob Russell

1 1st: AUGUSTA CAPITAL PARTNERS 2 2nd: DALLAS WATER UTILITIES, HDR, & CDM 3 3rd: HARTWELL ENVIRONMENTAL

LONGEST DRIVE IN FAIRWAY #9

Tyler KayCLOSEST TO LINE #13

Jared SchmerseCLOSEST TO PIN #7

Todd CanfordCLOSEST TO PIN #14

Collin Brown

September 13, 2019Waterchase Golf Club

Fort Worth, TX

Registration opensJune 12, 2019

Team and volunteer registration form to follow with sponsorship opportunities


President-Elect Phil Spitzer (469) 626-4918 Email

President Mark Perkins (817) 719-0372 Email

Officers & Committee Chairs

Vice President Grace Sober (214) 765-8731 Email

Treasurer Rami Issa (214) 326-1983 Email

Deputy Treasurer Elle Frier (214) 640-1769 Email

Secretary Nicole Conner (214) 288-7609 Email

Past President Matt Jalbert (469) 475-0922 Email

Section Rep Jeff Caffey (817) 806-1723 Email

Past Section Rep Heather Wootton (912) 377-7480 Email

Audit Phil Spitzer 469-626-4918 | Email

Fundraising Heather Wootton 972-377-7480 | Email

Public Ed/Science Fair Chris Vela 817-339-2299 | Email

PWO Steve Golhar 214-671-9112 | Email

Awards Andre Garces 214-951-0807 | Email

Historian Paul Roach Email

Scholarships Chris Young 817-806-1700 | Email

YP - Dallas Kaylee Dusek 972-377-7480 | Email Reyna Reyes 214-522-8778 | Email

Communications Phil Spitzer 469-626-4918 | Email

Nominations Matt Jalbert 469-475-0922 | Email

Seminar Lance Klement 972-377-7480 | Email

Constitution/Bylaws Amy Robinson 817-332-8727 | Email

Photography Malcolm Cowdin 972-262-5186 | Email

YP - Fort Worth Marc Cashion 817-403-1140 | Email Paula Monaco 817-806-1718 | Email

Website Andy Paulson 469-619-1241 | Email Nicole Conner 214-288-7609 | Email

Finance Rami Issa 214-326-1983 | Email

Programs Grace Sober 214-765-8731 | Email

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The WEAT-NTS Nominations committee is pleased to present the slate of officers for the 2019-2020 year for WEAT-NTS. We had a number of great candidates nominated and a very close race. The two open positions for the upcoming year are Secretary and Section Representative.

Please attend the upcoming May meeting to vote on this new slate of WEAT-NTS Executive Committee Officers:

President – Phil Spitzer

President-Elect – Grace Sober

Past-President – Mark Perkins

Vice-President – Nicole Conner

Treasurer - Rami Issa

Deputy Treasurer - Elle Frier

Secretary – Heather Wootton

Section Rep – Sherri van der Wege

Past Section Rep – Jeff Caffey

Section Officers 2019-2020


The 10th Annual WEAT-NTS Sporting Clays event returned to the Dallas Gun Club on March 8, 2019. A big thanks goes out to our many sponsors, volunteers and participants. This year’s tournament brought over 120 participants and volunteers. This year’s sponsors included:

Sporting Clays Recap

Sporting Clays Heather Wootton

For more information, contact:

Team Awards Name Score

1st Place Archer Western #1 91.8

2nd Place Prime Controls 90.3

3rd Place BASF 86.3

Most Honest APAI 27.3

2nd to Last Jacobs 37.5

Individual Awards Name Score

Men’s 1st Place Barrett Miller 97

Men’s 2nd Place Josh Childers 96

Men’s 3rd Place Rod Lunkwitz 96

Women’s 1st Place Amy Robinson 46

Women’s 2nd Place Keri Kelley 43

Most Improved Bob Comeau +33

Most Honest Ron Patel 4

Most Generous Sponsor:

Prime Controls

Top Volunteers:

Nyla Langford & Agata Ristow

Event Organizer and Committee:

Heather Wootton Nyla Langford Agata Ristow Joshua Rogg

Archer Western

Alpha Testing

APAI

CDM Smith

Core & Main

Daryl Hall

Garver

Gupta

Hach

HDR, Inc

Jacobs

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Perkins

Precision Pumps

Prime Controls

Reynco

TNP

Walker Engineering

SPONSORS


Team Awards

Archer Western #1 1st Place Team (91.8)

Prime Controls 2nd Place Team (90.3)

BASF 3rd Place Team (86.3)

Jacobs At Least We Weren’t Last (37.5)

After a long day of shooting, teams were rewarded with a BBQ lunch provided by BASF. This event would not be possible without our volunteers and willing participants. Thank you all who helped to make this event a success. We look forward to another successful event next year!

THANKS TO OUR VOLUNTEERS


Individual Awards

Barrett Miller Men’s 1st Place (97)

Josh Childers Men’s 2nd Place (96)

Rod Lunkwitz Men’s 3rd Place (96)

Amy Robinson Women’s 1st Place (46)

Bob Comeau Most Improved (+33)

Keri Kelley Women’s 2nd Place (43)

Ron Patel - Most Honest (4)


Young Professionals

YP Fort Worth Paula Monaco Marc Cashion


YP Dallas Reyna Reyes Kaylee Dusek


May 2019 Happy Hour—Fort Worth

Thank you to all who attended the North Texas WEAT and AWWA Young Professionals Happy Hour on May 9th, 2019! A special thank you to the event sponsor, Newman Regency Company.

The YPs enjoyed an evening of great networking, appetizers, and cocktails at the Woodshed in Fort Worth with a great view of the Trinity River. Continue to check the WEAT-NTS website for upcoming North Texas events!!

Month Event (Location)

June Happy Hour (Dallas)

July Volleyball League (Dallas)

August Village Creek Water Reclamation Facility Tour (Fort Worth)

September AWWA Casino Night (TBD)

October Happy Hour (TBD)

UPCOMING EVENTS


Public Outreach

Public Ed. Chris Vela


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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

Personal News

PROJECT MANAGER—North Texas Municipal Water District

The NTMWD is currently hiring for a full time Professional Engineer. This position will be responsible for quality control review of engineering projects. The successful candidate will track work progress of the various engineering design and construction projects utilizing scheduling software. The candidate will reviews change orders, requests for information, field changes, and pay requests.

Candidate will also act as a project manager for assigned projects and maintain project management procedures. Requires experience in municipal water and wastewater design and construction. Salary range $85,204 - $126,103 annually DOQ. For more details and to apply online please visit our website at www.ntmwd.com for full posting.

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Send your announcements and pictures to Phil Spitzer to be included in the next newsletter.

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Thanks, Wes Eckenfelder

At the Gloyna Breakfast at Texas Water last month, Betty Jordan gave a Jordanesque presentation recognizing the lives and careers of three notable educators in our industry – Doctors Ernest Gloyna, Davis Ford, and Wesley Eckenfelder. These men made significant contributions, individually and jointly, to the body of knowledge in the water environment and resources arenas. Their careers crossed paths in the last half of the 1960’s as faculty of the UT Austin Civil Engineering Department program with many of our industry leaders having studied under their tutelage. Ernie and Wes had distinguished careers in education until their passing earlier this year and in 2010 respectively. Davis currently leads a consulting firm after many years at UT Austin. Betty described this as “we are standing on the shoulders of giants.”

Wes Eckenfelder was widely known as the “Father of Industrial Waste Management”. He taught for thirty-six years, established several consulting firms, and authored over thirty books. He received numerous awards domestically and internationally, had two prestigious awards named for him, and WEAT remembers him with the Eckenfelder Lecture Series. Even with this accounting of accomplishment and recognition, the story is only half told.

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Historian Highlights


Wes’ wit was legendary. I feel sure that anyone who has had the pleasure of attending his lectures has a story. For example, he would fit a graph line among a seemingly unrelatable set of data points knowing his audience would have a degree of skepticism. The audience was next presented with evidence of the line’s prediction accuracy - point Eckenfelder. He lost his vision in his later years. When asked highly detailed questions during his lectures, he could identify the exact overhead projector slide that would yield the answer, much to the amazement of his audience.

This leads me to my favorite story about Wes. As I recall 35 years ago, getting this newly chartered North Texas Section of WEAT up and running presented some challenges. After each dinner meeting, a handful of officers and volunteers met to count the proceeds, secure the next speaker and identify a consultant to underwrite the next meeting. The section was operating on a meeting-to-meeting basis and we needed a spark. Wes Eckenfelder found time to be the last speaker of our first year of existence. We sold out the venue, the presentation was predictably great, and the section’s credibility was solidified. This allowed the section to have a planning horizon beyond the next meeting and proceed with building the organization we have today.

You are right Betty – we are standing on the shoulders of giants.

Paul Roach, Section Historian


Section Rep. Jeff Caffey


March Meeting Recap

Scholarships

The WEAT North Texas Section March dinner meeting was held at Texas Star Conference Center on March 21, 2019. The speaker was Julie Nargang, executive director of WEAT. Her presentation was an overview of the 86th legislative session. Julie provided information about committees relevant to the wastewater industry and a summary of related bills which were filed. General topics included flood planning, water quality, biosolids, produced water, spill reporting, desalination and groundwater, work force development, lead testing, and cyber security.

Fall application deadline: June 28, 2019

Scholarships Chris Young


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2019 Combined NTX Event CalendarEvent Date Organization Event Time Location

5/9/2019 TSPE Dallas Monthly Meeting 11:30 - 12:00 Maggiano's, 205 North Park Center, Dallas, TX 75225

5/9/2019 TSPE Ft Worth Monthly Meeting 11:30-1:30 Reata, 35th Room, 310 Houston St., Fort Worth, TX

76102

5/11/2019 ASCE Fort Worth YM Social at Top Golf 11:00 - 1:00 Top Golf Fort Worth, 2201 E. 4th St., Ft. Worth, TX

76102

5/13/2019 ASCE Dallas Branch Meeting 11:00 - 2:00 Vouv Meeting & Event Space, 4445 Sigma Rd., Dallas,

TX 75244

5/15/2019 ACEC Texas Business Conference May 15-16 Addison, TX

5/16/2019 CMAA North Texas Awards Gala 6:00-9:30 Dallas Zoo, 650 South R. L. Thornton Freeway, Dallas,

TX 75203

5/16/2019 WEAT - NTS Dinner Meeting and Plant Tour 5:30 - 8:00 Prairie House Restaurant, 10001 US-380, Cross

Roads, TX 76227

5/17/2019 TACWA Bimonthly Meeting All Day Flower Mound

5/18/2019 WEAT/TAWWA/UCTA 5th Annual Spring Trash Bash 9:30-11:00 Fort Worth

5/19/2019 APWA National conference May 19-22 Salt Lake City, UT

5/22/2019 ACEC Tarrant May Meeting with Michael Morris 11:45 Fort Worth, TX

5/23/2019 UCTA North Texas Chapter Luncheon 11:30 - 1:00 Texas Star Golf Course, 1400 Texas Star Pkwy, Euless,

TX 76040

5/23/2019 WEAT 8th Annual Water Reuse in Texas

Conference

May 23-24 McAllen Convention Center

6/5/2019 APWA Texas 2019 Annual Conference Jun 5-8 Renaissance Hotel, Austin, TX

6/9/2019 AWWA ACE 2019 Jun 9-12 Denver, CO

6/10/2019 ASCE Dallas Branch Meeting 11:00 - 2:00 Vouv Meeting & Event Space, 4445 Sigma Rd., Dallas,

TX 75244

6/13/2019 TSPE Ft Worth Monthly Meeting 11:30-1:30 tbd

6/13/2019 TX Assoc. of Water Board

Directors

Annual Conference Jun 13-15 Fort Worth Convention Center, Fort Worth, TX

6/19/2019 TMUA Utility Leadership and Management

Conference

Jun 19-21 Westin Irving Convention Center Las Colinas, 400

West Las Colinas Boulevard, Irving, TX 75039

6/19/2019 TSPE Conference and Annual Meeting Jun 19-21 Hilton College Station & Conference Center Hotel,

College Station, TX

6/20/2019 TAWWA - NCT Lunch Meeting 11:30 tbd

2019 Combined NTX Event Calendar6/20/2019 WEAT - NTS Summer Social 5:30 - 8:00 tbd


7/16/2019 NACWA Utility Leadership Conference & 49th

Annual Meeting

July 16-19 Minneapolis, MN

7/26/2019 TACWA Bimonthly Meeting All Day Houston

7/28/2019 EPA Annual Region 6 Stormwater Conference 7/28 - 8/1 Denton Convention Center, Denton, TX

7/31/2019 WEAT Biosolids/Odor & Corrosion Control

Conference

7/31 - 8/1 San Marcos, TX


8/8/2019 UCTA North Texas Chapter Luncheon 11:30 - 1:00 Texas Star Golf Course, 1400 Texas Star Pkwy, Euless,

TX 76040


8/19/2019 WEAT CMOM Conference 2019 Aug 19-20 Austin Convention Center

9/8/2019 APWA PWX Conference Sep 8-11 Seattle, WA


9/13/2019 TACWA Bimonthly Meeting All Day San Antonio

9/13/2019 WEAT - NTS Daryl Hall Golf Tournament All Day tbd

9/21/2019 WEF WEFTEC 2019 Sep 21-25 McCormick Place, Chicago, IL

10/10/2019 ASCE 2019 National Convention Oct 10-13 Miami, FL


10/13/2019 ACEC Fall Conference Oct 13-16 Sheraton Grand, Chicago, IL


10/25/2019 TAWWA - NCT Robert F. Pence Drinking Water Seminar All Day Petroleum Club, 777 Main, Ft Worth

10/25/2019 TSPE Board of Directors Meeting 1:00 tbd

10/25/2019 WEAT - NTS Opstoberfest All Day Knights of Columbus Hall, Arlington

11/1/2019 TPWA NCT Branch One Day Seminar November tbd

11/8/2019 UCTA Clay Shoot All Day ?


11/15/2019 TACWA Bimonthly Meeting All Day Arlington

12/12/2019 TAWWA - NCT Holiday Dinner Meeting 5:30 tbd



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