1993. Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District officials blamed intense backtoback storms and almost unrelenting rain for the massive sewage overflows. To visualize how much sewage was dumped by the district, consider these calculations: The 4.6 billion gallons would fill Miller Park 15 times over, from its base to its retractable roof. The sewage spill would also fill the U.S. Bank office tower on the lakefront 41 times.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/29/04
Sources
*Survey of the state's civil engineers conducted in December 2004.
TRIP Fact Sheets, February 2005
Texas Transportation Institute, 2004 Urban Mobility Report Government Performance Project, Grading the States 2004 The State of Garbage in America, Biocycle Magazine 2004 Condition of America’s Public Schools, 1999
EPA Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey, 2001 EPA Clean Water Needs Survey, 2000
Association of State Dam Safety Officials
Wyoming
Top Three Infrastructure Concerns*
151. Roads 152. Schools 153. Bridges
Key Infrastructure Facts
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Vehicle travel on Wyoming’s highways increased 58% from 1990 to 2003. Wyoming’s population grew 11% between 1990 and 2003.·
Driving on roads in need of repair costs Wyoming motorists $30 million a year in extra vehicle repairs and operating costs—$82 per motorist.·
21% of Wyoming’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.·
There are 3 statedetermined deficient dams in Wyoming.·
Wyoming has 79 high hazard dams. A high hazard dam is defined as a dam whose failure would cause a loss of life and significant property damage.·
The rehabilitation cost for Wyoming’s most critical dams is estimated at $71.5 million.·
Wyoming's drinking water infrastructure need is $80 million over the next 20 years.·
Wyoming generates 1.39 tons of solid waste per capita.·
Wyoming recycles 1.7% of the state's solid waste.·
49% of Wyoming’s schools have at least one inadequate building feature.·
68% of Wyoming’s schools have at least one unsatisfactory environmental condition.Sources
*Survey of the state's civil engineers conducted in December 2004.
TRIP Fact Sheets, February 2005
Texas Transportation Institute, 2004 Urban Mobility Report Government Performance Project, Grading the States 2004 The State of Garbage in America, Biocycle Magazine 2004 Condition of America’s Public Schools, 1999
EPA Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey, 2001 EPA Clean Water Needs Survey, 2000
Association of State Dam Safety Officials
2005 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure Advisory Council Bios
ASCE Leaders William P. Henry, P.E., F.ASCE
President, ASCE
William P. Henry's area of technical expertise is water resources planning and engineering. He co
founded the small business Aqua Resources, Inc. Currently he is the marketing manager for the Seattle office of Schaaf & Wheeler Consulting Civil Engineers, a small water resources engineering firm. Henry has served as an ASCE director and has been president of the San Francisco Section.
Patrick J. Natale, P.E., M.ASCE, C.A.E Executive Director, ASCE
In November 2002, Patrick J. Natale began his tenure as the executive director of the American Society of Civil Engineers. In January of 1999, Natale was appointed the executive director of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). Prior to joining NSPE, Natale held numerous toplevel management positions with the Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) of New Jersey.
During his 28year career with PSE&G, he was responsible for managing sales, marketing, strategic planning and customer service.
2005 Advisory Council
C. Michael Walton, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE Advisory Council Chair
Dr. Michael Walton is professor of civil engineering and holds the Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). Walton's distinguished career in transport policy and engineering analysis spans more than 30 years and is highlighted by his contributions to many transportation professional societies and technical publications.
Donald L. Basham, P.E.
Donald Basham is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chief of Engineering and Construction. Basham's career in engineering, construction, and program and project management spans 36 years. In his current assignment, he is responsible for policy, program and technical expertise in the execution of over $10 billion of design and construction programs for the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense, other federal agencies and over sixty foreign nations.
Jeanette A. Brown, P.E, DEE, F.ASCE
Jeanette A. Brown is the executive director of Stamford Water Pollution Control Authority. She is also an adjunct professor of Environmental Engineering Manhattan College. Brown has 30 years experience in wastewater treatment; she is considered an authority on operations of biological nitrogen removal processes and sludge management. She is currently vicepresident of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE.
John Bennett, P.E.
John Bennett is currently serving as vice president with AECOM Consult, Inc. He has over three decades of experience in rail and public transportation policy, planning and management/organization development. He also has extensive experience in capital program development and management including multiyear rail investment programs involving multiple agencies such as the $100 million Penn Station Central Control project.
Charles C. Calhoun, Jr., P.E., F.ASCE
Charles C. Calhoun is a consultant in the private sector. He retired after over 35 years of distinguished service as the deputy director of the U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station's Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory. Calhoun is the immediate pastpresident of the Board of Governors of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute (COPRI) and has served as the chairman of ASCE's Waterway Committee. He is also a vice president and commissioner of the U.S.
Section of the International Navigation Association.
Edward J. Hecker
Edward J. Hecker has been with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers for 31 years. Ed has spent most of his career engaged in the Corps emergency management program. Selected as chief of the Readiness Branch at Headquarters in 1991, Ed has been a key leader in managing the Corps’ preparedness and response to numerous major disasters over the past 10 years from Hurricane Andrew in 1992 to the events of September 11. He has played a central role in building the Corps’ outstanding relationship with FEMA.
W. Craig Helms, P.E., F.ASCE
W. Craig Helms is founder and manager of Civil Engineering of The Carolinas, LLC which deals in all phases of various infrastructure systems including water, sewer, roads, landfills, and facilities. Mr. Helms has worked for federal and state governments as well as private practice for the last 28 years. He has served in numerous positions with ASCE and other professional organizations. He has received numerous professional honors and awards for his dedicated, continuous service.
Andrew W. Herrmann, P.E., F.ASCE
Andrew Herrmann is the Managing Partner of Hardesty and Hanover LLP, Consulting Engineers, headquartered in New York, and serves as partnerincharge for many of the firm's bridge projects.
During his 30 plus years with the firm he has been responsible for the design, inspection, rehabilitation, construction support, analysis, and rating of fixed and movable bridges, highways, railroads and major transportation projects He is past chair of ASCE/SEI's Committee on Bridges and their Steel Bridge Committee. He is presently cochair of ASCE/SEI's 2005 Structures Congress in NYC.
Brad Iarossi, P.E., M.ASCE
Brad Iarossi served as Chief of the Dam Safety Program for Maryland's Department of the Environment for over 16 years. With expertise in environmental regulation and water projects, Iarossi served as chair of ASCE's National Water Policy Committee, served on the CGA Committee, is past president of the Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) and has been the Chairman of ASDSO’s Legislative Committee since 1992.
Leon Kempner, Jr., Ph.D. P.E., M.ASCE
Dr. Kempner has 31 years experience as a structural engineer for the Bonneville Power Administration.
Career assignments include structural engineering analysis, design and research of transmission line facilities. Kempner is active in many national and international Electrical Transmission Engineering professional organizations and has contributed to many technical publications addressing transmission line structural engineering issues.
Conrad G. Keyes, Jr., Sc.D., P.E. /P.S., Hon.M. ASCE, F. NSPE
Conrad Keyes is the Founding President of ASCE's Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI), a Professor & Department Head Emeritus of Civil, Agricultural, & Geological Engineering of New Mexico State University, and proudly serves as consultant to the US Corps of Engineers Albuquerque District and Sandia National Laboratories. He has been involved in numerous water resource projects throughout the southwest and is a former member of the U.S. International Boundary &
Water Commission, the Rio Grande Compact Commission, and the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission. He currently is on the Paso del Norte Watershed Council in the El Paso and southern New Mexico region.
Fred Klancnik, P.E., F.ASCE
Fred Klancnik is president of the planning, design and engineering firm of JJR. He has 33 years of experience designing recreational development projects, specializing in urban waterfront regeneration.
He has been responsible for planning and engineering of national parks/lakeshores; state/regional parks and beaches; and urban parks, plazas and promenades. Notable projects include the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Milwaukee Lakeshore State Park, City of Lake Forest Park, and Chicago's Navy Pier. Mr. Klancnik received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and Master of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Wisconsin. He is a fellow of ASCE and the editor and coauthor of the ASCE Planning and Design Guidelines for Small Craft Harbors (Manual 50).
Margaret E. Layne P.E., M.ASCE
Margaret E. (Peggy) Layne, P.E., directs the Advance program, a National Science Foundation sponsored program to increase the number of women faculty in science and engineering, at Virginia Tech. She spent a year as ASCE’s Congressional Fellow in the office of Senator Bob Graham, where she was responsible for water, wastewater, and solid and hazardous waste policy issues. Ms. Layne has 17 years of environmental engineering experience, and was formerly a principal at Harding Lawson Associates in Tallahassee, FL, where she managed the office and directed hazardous waste site investigation and cleanup projects
Kathi Littmann
Kathi has over 25 years of experience in construction project and program management. This experience includes general contracting/atrisk construction, and the development and leadership of successful project teams. Kathi is currently Vice President, Director of Program Management for HNTB
Architecture Inc. and responsible for the development and expansion of the HNTB program management practice nationwide.
Eva LernerLam M.ASCE
Eva LernerLam has 27 years of experience in transportation planning, operations, research and policy making. Founder and President of the Palisades Consulting Group, Inc., she is also the publisher of a bi
weekly electronic newsletter, “Palisades Transit Security Newsletter,” and serves on numerous professional society and homeland securityrelated committees and panels dealing with transportation security issues. Eva has received numerous professional achievement awards, including the 1995 ITE Metropolitan Section New York/New Jersey Engineer of the Year and the 1998 ASCE Frank M. Masters Engineering Achievement Award.
Roger M. Millar, Jr., P.E., F.ASCE
Roger Millar is vice president of DMJM+Harris, Inc. He has over 25 years of professional experience with an extensive background in public and private sector transportation, land use and environmental projects. Millar is chair of the ASCE National Infrastructure and Research Policy Committee and past chair of the Pacific Northwest Council of ASCE.
Peter G. Nicholson, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Dr. Peter Nicholson is a professor of civil engineering and graduate chair for the Dept. of Civil &
Environmental Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He chairs the Embankments, Dams &
Slopes Committee for the GeoInstitute of ASCE of which he has been an active member for the past 12 years. Nicholson has been consulting on dam safety, design and rehabilitation for almost 20 years in Hawaii and California.
Robert E. Nickerson, P.E., M.ASCE
Robert Nickerson is an independent consulting structural engineer specializing in the design, analysis and upgrading of electrical transmission systems and has over 25 years of experience in the electrical utility industry. This experience includes three key areas: analysis and design of transmission structures, research and fullscale testing of transmission structures, and currently as a consultant working with utilities in development of transmission models for system analyses and upgrades.
Randall S. Over, P.E., F.ASCE
Randall Over is the Ohio Department of Transportation's (ODOT) District 12 construction engineer. He is responsible for construction contracts for the Cleveland, Ohio, metro area. He also serves on the ODOT statewide committees for Specifications for Construction Contract Administration, Agency Cost Accounting, and local let federalaid project administration.
Thomas M. Rachford, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE
Dr. Thomas M. Rachford is a vice president with Gannett Fleming, Inc., an engineering and planning firm with 50 offices nationwide. Rachford has been with Gannett Fleming for 30 years and currently serves as corporate quality manager. He is also the immediate pas president of ASCE's Environmental and Water Resources Institute.
Debra R. Reinhart, Ph.D., P.E., DEE, F.ASCE
Debra Reinhart is a professor and interim chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Central Florida. Reinhart is a member of seven national professional and technical organizations; four national committees; and chair of ASCE External Organizations Coordination Committee. She is the author of over 100 books, papers and presentations.
Thomas S. Slater, P.E., M. ASCE
Thomas S. Slater is a leading expert, author and lecturer in aviation engineering and management for PBS&J, a national airport planning and consulting firm in Raleigh, NC. As a member of ASCE's National Transportation Committee, Slater serves as an advisor to the Society on issue of federal and state funding policies. He was named as chairman of the 28th Annual Air Transport Conference scheduled for July 2004. Slater has over 25 years serving the airport and aviation community.
Tom Warne, P.E.
Tom Warne is the president of Tom Warne and Associates, assisting public agencies to become more effective and private companies to become more profitable in the 21st century. Projects and engagements include large designbuild efforts, strategic planning, succession management, legislative initiatives, market analysis, process improvement initiatives and client interventions. In addition, Warne has assisted numerous states, contractors and engineering firms in advancing their designbuild programs.
David Westerling, PhD, P.E., P.L.S., F.ASCE
Dr. David Westerling is a professor of civil engineering at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass.
Westerling is a former ASCE Congressional Fellow and pastpresident of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. He has over 35 years of engineering experience in the public and private sectors. He was recently elected town moderator in Harvard, Mass.