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Home Projects Water / Wastewater Austin Clean Water Program
Austin Clean Water Program
The Austin Clean Water Program (ACWP) was created in 2001 to comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's order to eliminate sanitary sewer overflows from the City's wastewater interceptor system. Many of the projects administered by the ACWP contain tunnel sections, and three of the most significant include the Barton Creek Lift Station Relief Tunnel, the Shoal Creek 29th to 34th Street Tunnel, and the Little Walnut South Tunnel. For each of these projects, Lachel provided construction management services including resident engineering and inspection, contract administration and contractor submittal review. Project details were as follows:
The Barton Creek Lift Station Relief Tunnels, Section 1 and 2 were constructed utilizing mechanical excavation methods. Section 1 consisted of 1,700 ft of 91-inch excavated diameter tunnel driven through Colorado River Terrace alluvial material using a digger shield with ribs and boards for support. Section 2 consisted of 1,530 ft of 97-inch excavated diameter tunnel driven through the Del Rio (clay) and Georgetown (limestone) formations using a shielded TBM with ribs and boards for support. Both tunnels were pipe-in-tunnel completions with 33-inch diameter FRPM (Hobas) pipe. The project also included excavation of two deep shafts to depths of 75 and 78 ft respectively, in order to provide for construction of a temporary lift station and a vortex drop structure.
The Shoal Creek Tunnel project consisted of approximately 3,400 ft of 102-inch excavated diameter tunnel driven through the Del Rio and Georgetown formations with a Lovat TBM and supported using ribs and boards. The pipe-in-tunnel section was completed with 66-inch diameter FRPM (Hobas) pipe and cellular concrete backfill. The project included associated shaft construction for vortex drop structures and system tie-in work. The 29th Street shaft was roadheader excavation and utilized steel ribs and liner plate for support.
The Little Walnut South Tunnel project consisted of roughly 9,600 ft of 101-inch excavated diameter tunnel driven through the Taylor (claystone) and Austin (limestone) formations using a Dosco shielded TBM. It also included a separate interstate highway crossing and 540 ft of 108-inch tunnel excavated using a main beam TBM. The two tunnel segments were completed with 48-inch and 60-inch FRPM (Hobas) pipe and cellular concrete backfill. The work also included associated shaft construction and tie-in work.

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Volume 18 Issue 47 | April 7 - 13, 2006
Meetings for the 21st century
By Andrei Codrescu
We love meetings in this country. On any given day there are hundreds of meetings unfolding in every city. Professionals meet to exchange ideas, hobbyists meet to trade items, companies meet to unveil products, scholars meet to present papers, even criminals meet to share the latest in cracking safes. Some of these meetings come with entertainment and fanfare, others are sober-minded, and some are secret. Members elect their officials, pass on priceless gossip, and make career moves. Meetings are one of the great pleasures of American democracy, as Alexis de Tocqueville noted, because they allow the citizens of this huge continent to break momentarily out of isolation and reassure one another of the worth of their endeavors.
And then there are meetings of crisis, meditations in an emergency, as the poet Fank OHara called the need to think fast. These are meetings of citizens who must decide the fate of people and places. Hurricane Katrina spawned meetings all over the country to discuss everything from exile, diaspora, engineering, race, architecture, and culture. These themes, though born of Katrina, are recognizable also as the major themes of the 20th century. The re-emergence of these questions marks the end of the 20th century and puts us squarely into the 21st. We must no longer meet as we did in the 20th century. We must make of our meetings more than the blah-blah that made most conferences in the past so pleasantly ineffective.
Ive now been to enough meetings in both centuries to know that they are a good thing, and Ive sat on enough panels to know that they are sometimes useful. The meetings I attend are, for the most part, occasions for scholarly or poetic speculation on the state of our minds in unique historical circumstances. Hurricane Katrina is one of those perfect cluster of real questions that can spin easily into the most abstract concerns. The Storm changed a city and put the whole idea of cities under scrutiny. The real questions will take years and money to answer. Are we going to have safe levees? What will happen to the poor? What will the city look like? The abstract questions are no less vexing; What is a city? What is culture? Whose money talks? What (except money) talks? And then there is the underlying question: how do we talk about all this in a new century to try to make it matter?
I have two solutions: 1. Reverse every seemingly obvious relation of power: instead of top to bottom thinking, reformulate the questions from the point of view of the poor and the powerless. This reversal of perspective will free great creative forces because people without money have great imagination. People with money just want to go back to business as usual and are full of fear. Let the fearless and the penniless decide. In a true democracy, that would be the case, but in our mediated world of advertising, true democracy is rare. Let the poor decide: This is Jesus way, not the American way. And its the 21st century.
2. Never end a panel without forming a post-panel working group that will meet regularly and try to get things done. A panel should be like a group marriage: once hitched the panelists should be obliged to keep on relating. This, of course, is not the American way either. But its the 21st century.
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Part music festival, part movie night and part live-action horror experience, Sydney's Horror Movie Campout is inviting Australians to spend a night in the woods with them, a couple of clowns, a demon or two and a handful of axe-wielding maniacs.
This event isn't the first of its kind — a couple have been held before in Adelaide and Melbourne, and and now it's Sydney's turn on March 12. Well, Sydney-ish if you're going to get technical. There aren't many large, wooded areas in Sydney city where no one can hear you scream, so they'll be moving an hour north to Mt Penang Gardens on NSW's Central Coast.
You'll need to bring your own tent, bedding and seating for the event, but HMC is providing all the entertainment. Scare actors roam the grounds to keep campers on their toes, or you can put everything you've learned from horror movies to the test to try and survive the 'Death Chamber' scare maze.
The event will feature live music from bands The Lazys, Ivy, The Moving Stills and DJ sets from The Rawhide Kid, though the event really starts at sundown when the main cinema screen will fire up. Beginning with a couple of horror shorts, two classic horror movies will be screened to campers in the perfect atmosphere for horror film consumption. Movies are still being voted on (you can see the shortlist at the voting page here) but let's be honest, if they don't play Blair Witch Project then they're doing something wrong.
To see what campers will be in for, check out this video from one of HMC's previous events:
Tickets are available now, with first release tickets priced at $75 plus a $5 fee and second release tickets going up to $85, plus $5 fee. There's also an optional upgrade to a 'glamping' package for $120, which gets you access to a tent for up to three campers and a reserved seating area for the movie screening.
Oh, and make sure to bring your best in horror-themed costumes — for once, clowns are welcome!


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Cognitive Factors that Affect Learning
Dr. Robert Ryan, Department of Psychology
The research of Dr. Ryan and his students has spanned face recognition, the use of the internet for data gathering, and applying cognitive methods in education. One study on face recognition examined people who have high visual skill combined with poorer verbal skills. It showed that they are especially susceptible to having their ability to remember a face disrupted by describing the face. That study was published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology in 1998. In 2013, Dr. Ryan and two of his students published a finding in Computers in Human Behavior that provided further support for the claim that data gathered on the internet is just as reliable as that gathered in a controlled laboratory setting.
However, the bulk of Dr. Ryan and his students' work has examined cognitive factors that affect learning. For example, in 2006 Dr. Ryan published a study in the journal Teaching of Psychology that presented a hands-on exercise to improve students' understanding of a difficult concept in statistics. More recently, Dr. Ryan has engaged several groups of students in a series of studies on math learning. For example, Dr. Ryan and one of his students have recently submitted for publication in Cognitive Technology a study that demonstrates a technique of matching corresponding features of examples of algebra word problems to help students learn algebra. That study is a follow up to a study that Dr. Ryan published in that journal in 2005 that demonstrated how to use a technique of judging the similarity of example problems to improve algebra learning.
Currently, some of Dr. Ryan's research assistants, including Tanajsia Mason (pictured above) are running subjects in a study on the effects of presenting the same algebra problem in different formats. Another series of six experiments conducted with Dr. Steven Howell over seven semesters examined the effects of presenting examples of concepts in statistics in different formats. Those studies showed the benefits of combining the techniques of presenting different types of examples in an interleaved format, focusing the students on the relevant features of the examples, and requiring them to generate answers followed by feedback. Those studies are currently being written up for journal submission. In addition to examining the aforementioned factors, Dr. Ryan has also examined the effects of practicing retrieval of information, and the effects of trying to increase students belief in the value of statistics on their learning.
Dr. Ryan's students are currently helping to examine the implications of the most recent literature on knowledge, learning, and instruction for designing methods for teaching statistics. These students, as others have done over the past 13 years that Dr. Ryan has been at Kutztown, will gain practical experience at designing and conducting experiments, and at presenting the results at professional conferences and publishing them in peer reviewed journals.
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Here are 10 Adorable ideas that you can easily tinker with the little ones of the nurseries, the oldest who started kindergarten and the big ones who go to school!
1) Make feeders to attract butterflies with a plastic tray, beads with necklace and string!
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2) Put down a terracotta saucer in the sun with fruit!
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3) Make a Tic Tac Toe game with pebbles! Acrylic exterior paint and varnish! Let dry well between coats, you may need several layers, depending on the paint brand chosen.
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4) Make a Garden Fairy with shacks sparrows in a terra cotta pot! (Terracotta)
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5) You have broken pots? Do not throw them away !! Make a garden fairy in obviated!
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6) You do not have a pot? Do it in a plastic jar!
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7) Make a bird feeder with popsicle sticks!
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8) Markers for garden with wooden spoons! You can do them in pyrography, with acrylic paint, crayons in water, etc.
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9) Get bottles of soft drink to make watering cans! Drill the cap with a needle that you will have heated on a heat source.
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10) Turn over the pots, run pots of paint to color the terra cotta pots, let dry all night for colorful flower pots!
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The incomparable Henrik Harlaut took home another major win today today at the inaugural Freestyle.Berlin in Germany.
Henrik Harlaut. photo: Dominic Zimmermann
Henrik topped the field with a flawless and stylish double cork 1260, edging out Freestyle.ch champion Sammy Carlson, who placed second, 2009 X Games slopestyle gold medalist TJ Schiller, who placed third, and Jacob Wester, who was attempting some of the first ever double cork 1440's and landed in fourth for his efforts.
TJ Schiller. photo: Dominic Zimmermann
Jacob Wester. photo: Dominic Zimmermann
With two of the five major pre-season stadium big airs in the books, we now look ahead to the highly anticipated London Freeze on October 31st, the recently announced Barcelona Snow Show on November 7th, and the always exciting Stockholm Winter Jam (aka King of Style) on November 21st.
Andreas Håtveit. photo: Dominic Zimmermann
Stay tuned to NS as we'll be bringing you coverage on all three events as the snow begins to fall and the 09/10 ski season quickly approaches.
1) Henrik Harlaut
2) Sammy Carlson
3) TJ Schiller
4) Jacob Wester
5) Andreas Håtveit
6) Jon Olsson
7) Bobby Brown
8) Elias Ambühl
9) Fridtjof Fredricsson
10) Nicolas Vuignier
11) Thomas Hlawitschka
12) Russ Henshaw
13) Jossi Wells
14) Andri
15) Martin Misof
16) Colby West
17) Benedikt Mayr
18) Richard Permin
19) Simon Dumont
20) Oscar Scherlin