Have you Responded Yet to our Survey? Please Do.

Your AIPG Texas Section Board is conducting a survey of the Texas membership regarding how the Board may be able to help you.

The survey period will be closing soon so be sure to fill out and complete the survey sent to your e-mail addresses.

Whether you are a professional or student, let us know you opinions on the questions asked.

If you didn’t received the survey, let us know and we’ll get one out to you ASAP.

Our best to you all,

Henry M. Wise, P.G., C.P.G.
President
AIPG Texas Section

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Rice University Environmental Engineering Department Offers Free/Fee On-Line Course on Natural Attenuation

Rice University professors and environmental industry associates will build upon basic environmental science and environmental engineering principles to discover how to best implement MNA as a viable treatment for groundwater contamination plumes. Additionally, they will delve into the history behind and make predictions about the new directions for this technology. Any professional licensed to work in the environmental remediation industry will benefit from this in-depth study of MNA. They will use lectures, readings, and computational exercises to enhance your understanding and implementation of MNA. At the completion of this course, students will have updated understanding and practical tools that can be applied to all possible MNA sites.

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Last Minute Alert: Proposed Changes to the Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills Guide.

Matthew R. Cowan, P.G., District IV Representative to the AIPG Texas Section Boardspoke last night to the Houston Geological Society’s Environmental and Engineering Group about proposed changes to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills guide. He noticed that there were a few critical changes that the general public and specifically the geological community, should be aware of that affect the middle-school (6-8 grades) TEKS on topographic maps, and High School Courses with regards to fossil significance, etc.  These areas are fundamental components of Earth Science (Geology).

We have just been made aware of the proposed changes. Comments are due by the end of day of Friday, December 16, 2016.

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The Wise Report

On October 28, 2016, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) received a petition from Lloyd Gosselink on behalf of the Owner/Operator Members of the Uranium Committee of the Texas Mining and Reclamation Association (TMRA-UC or petitioner).

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The Wise Report

The Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) adopts amendments to §3.15, relating to Surface Equipment Removal Requirements and Inactive Wells, with one change to the proposed text as published in the August 26, 2016, issue of the Texas Register (41 TexReg 6311). The RRC adopts the amendments to more accurately track when inactive wells have been returned to production, thereby reducing the administrative burden for the operators of those wells and associated costs to industry. The RRC adopts the amendments with an effective date of January 1, 2017.  For more information go to:  http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/archive/December22016/

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An Overview of Groundwater Management in Texas – So Secret, Occult, and Concealed

November 9, 2016 – Robert E. Mace, Ph.D., P.G., Deputy Executive Administrator, Water Science and Conservation, Texas Water Development Board, Austin, presented “An Overview of Groundwater Management in Texas – So Secret, Occult,  and Concealed,” at the Houston Geological Society Environmental & Engineering Dinner Meeting & Seminar, HGS Announcement (here). PDF of Presentation Slides and Paper (more).

Glenn Lowenstein, P.G., CAPM, and President, Terrain Solutions, Inc. provided an ethics presentation prior to the lecture by Dr. Mace.

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