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010 ASCE PittsburghSectionNewsletter_ad.indd 1 3/10/2010 11:55:23 AM -2- Pittsburgh Section Newsletter A New Home for the Benedictine Sisters

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%ULDQ$VKEDXJK3DUWQHU $6&(/LIH0HPEHU &RQVWUXFWLRQ 6XUHW\,QGXVWU\3UDFWLFH*URXS 'LUHFW EDVKEDXJK#EJODZOOSFRP  %OXPOLQJ *XVN\//3 3LWWVEXUJK,*UHHQVEXUJ 3KRQH,)D[ ZZZEOXPOLQJJXVN\FRP The Benedictine Sisters' new convent. Construction completed in Spring, 2013. The Benedictine Sisters of Pittsburgh, an order of Catholic nuns dedicated to service and worship, are building a new convent in Richland Township to provide improved accessibility for their aging members, greater energy efficiency and a better layout than their old, multi- story facility on Perrysville Avenue. The new 27,000 SF, one-story facility contains living quarters, an activities room, a cafeteria, offices and a worship center designed to better serve the Sisters’ needs. The convent is located on a steeply-sloped, 11.8 acre hilltop property that required significant planning to fit CONSULTING GEOTECHNICAL, GARVIN FORENSIC, ENVIRONMENTAL the new building and facilities, including a geothermal heating and cooling system, within BOWARD BEITKO & MATERIALS SCIENCE ENGINEERS useable area. BUILT ON REPUTATION Garvin Boward Beitko Engineering, Inc. Pittsburgh Office Somerset Office “Raudenbush Engineering, Inc. really had to work to locate the building, parking, three 180 Bilmar Drive, Suite IV 632 Center Avenue, Apt. A Pittsburgh, PA 15205 Somerset, PA 15501 different stormwater retention systems, rain garden, and geothermal wells all within the site,” Phone: 412.922.4440 Phone: 814.443.2548 said Mike Tarle, Director of Design/Build for Massaro Corporation, the project’s general [email protected] [email protected] contractor. Engineering • Planning • Construction & Environmental Services Raudenbush, the civil engineering firm on the project, completed a topographic survey that provided the basis for their designers to complete the site layout and grading plans for the building, parking areas, and stormwater management facilities. GAI-Pittsburgh 385 East Waterfront Drive The stormwater management system included two infiltration tanks, a raingarden and a level Homestead, PA 15120-5005 412.476.2000 l gaiconsultants.com spreader to handle the increased flow from the new building, parking lot and access drive. “Raudenbush really helped Massaro navigate the confusing array of applications and approvals from the DEP, PennDOT, and utility companies,” says Tarle. Construction activities disturbed approximately 7 acres and required numerous permits. Raudenbush guided the project through the municipal approval process; obtained an NPDES permit, which included submission and review of the stormwater management and erosion and sedimentation control plans; prepared a HOP application for the driveway to access the adjacent state route; provided coordination for the connection to public utilities; and completed a PA DEP planning module—including coordination and notification of the treatment, collection and conveyance operators, the Allegheny Valley Joint Sewer Authority, Deer Creek Drainage Basin Authority, and Richland Township Municipal Authority.

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Volume 96, Number 9 / May-June 2013 -3- Contact Your Elected Policy Makers and have coffee with them.

Incumbant Phone Number PA House District 1 Patrick Harkins (D) (814) 459-1949 62 David Reed (R) (724) 465-0220 2 Florindo Fabrizio (D) (814) 455-6319 63 (R/D) (814) 226-9000 3 (D) (814) 835-2880 64 R. (R) (814) 677-6413 4 Curtis Sonney (R) (814) 897-2080 65 (R) (814) 723-5203 5 (R) (814) 683-5550 66 Sam Smith (R) (814) 938-4225 6 (R) (814) 827-6054 67 (R) (814) 362-4400 7 (D) (724) 981-4655 69 Carl Metzgar (R/D) (814) 443-4230 8 Richard Stevenson (R) (800) 287-0085 71 Brian Barbin (D) (814) 536-9818 9 (D) (724) 656-1112 72 (D) (814) 536-8400 10 (D) (724) 752-1133 73 (D) (814) 674-8939 11 Brian Ellis (R/D) (724) 283-5852 74 (R) (814) 765-0609 12 (R) (724) 772-3110 75 (R) (814) 375-4688 14 Jim Marshall (R) (724) 847-1352 78 (R/D) (814) 623-9097 15 Jim Christiana (R) (724) 728-7655 79 John McGinnis (R) (814) 946-7218 16 (D) (724) 266-7774 80 Gerry Stern (R) (814) 695-2398 17 (R) (724) 588-8911 81 Mike Fleck (R) (814) 644-2996 19 (D) (412) 471-7760 20 (D) (412) 321-5523 Pennsylvania Senate District 21 (D) (412) 361-2040 21 (R) (814) 677-6345 22 Erin Mulchany (D) (412) 343.2094 25 Joseph Scarnati (R) (814) 726-7201

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-4- Pittsburgh Section Newsletter

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Regional offices throughout the country Port of Pittsburgh Commission Report: Project success through global reach and local knowledge “The Time to Avert a Failure is NOW” “Failure to Fix Part 1” – Inability to recapitalize our waterway assets www.aecom.com Work to complete the Mon River improvements at Elizabeth and Charleroi has nearly come to a complete stop. Congress has added no significant new money to the project in the past five years. Originally scheduled to be completed in 2004, it may now have to wait to 2031 or more. There is no doubt that the Corps needs more money. As currently structured, funding for the Inland Waterway Trust Fund, is inadequate to address the ballooning cost of just one project, Olmsted. Therefore, projects like the Lower Mon, priority number 2, will be delayed for a very long time. The Inland Waterway User Board has worked with Corps staff to develop a 20 Year Capital Development Plan that called for higher User Fees along with more federal investment, but it, or something like it, needs to be approved by Congress and the President, or we will lose the battle to modernize this system. “Failure to Fix Part 2” – The on-going maintenance problem Lacking funds to modernize and, more importantly, lacking adequate funds to maintain the existing system, General Peabody, USACE - Mississippi River Division, told the Inland Waterway Conference attendees in Louisville that “if we do not get serious about listening to each other, this system will fail”. He said that if nothing positive happens, we will “fail to fix”.

Is Hope on the Way? Senator Casey introduces RIVER Act U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), introduced the RIVER Act, Reinvesting In Vital Economic Rivers and Waterways Act of 2013. “This legislation is about increasing investments in our waterways and reforming the current process to reduce waste and limit cost overruns,” said the Senator. The bill intends to make our waterways more effective and efficient, to increase the federal government’s funding of the region’s waterways and to increase overall investment through the creation of an additional revenue stream financed by users. The bill also contains to waterways project management reforms to reduce cost overruns. Key features of the River Act include: • Process reforms to help ensure that cost and project schedules are met; • Development of a 20 Year Capital Plan; • A rise in commercial towing user fees from 20 cents to 29 cents/gallon; and • An increase in waterway investments to enable timely project completions. Chairman Shuster introduces WRDA as priority #1 • U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, whose district now includes important parts of the Monongahela River and recently named Chairman of the House Transportation and John Frydrych, P. E. Bridges/Structures 300 Corbet Street, Suite 200 B Ecological Services Infrastructure Committee, has said his #1 priority is passage of a “Water Resources Tarentum, PA 15084-1817 Land Development Engineering (724) 224-2330 Site Planning and Development Act” (WRDA). WRDA is the vehicle that authorizes the lock and www.rasmithnational.com Surveying Visualization dam projects. It could be the vehicle to fix the funding stream for our waterway 3D Laser Scanning infrastructure. A House resolution “Waterways Are Vital for Economy, Energy, Efficiency and Environment” (WAVE-4) has been introduced in the House this session. WAVE-4 could be a House companion bill to the Senate RIVER Act. However the provisions of WAVE-4 must become incorporated into the WRDA bill. To do this, the Chairman needs to hear from other Members. What to do: – Get background on the issues at http://waterwayscouncil.org/ – Complete the form to contact your Senators and Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Congressman State College State College Selinsgrove Selinsgrove – Copy [email protected], so we can record how much you care. sse-llc.com sse-llc.com For more information, contact James McCarville, Executive Director, Port of Pittsburgh Commission, (412) 201-7335, [email protected] Construction Inspection ● Land Development ● Survey Construction Inspection ● Land Development ● Survey Traffic Engineering ● Transportation ● Structural Traffic Engineering ● Transportation ● Structural

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Word Teasers: What is the difference between ‘syste mic’ and ‘syste ma tic’? . Are they synonyms? Or do they have totally different meanings? What is the difference between ‘use ’ and ‘utilize’. Are they synonyms? Or do they have totally different meanings? What does the suffix ‘-ology’ mean? Which is correct: ‘I wish I was . . .’, or ‘I wish I were . . .’ Why? Why would one use ‘In order to do something . . .’ in place of ‘To do something . . .’? Which would be better: ‘Because of . . .’ or ‘Due to the fact that . . ‘?

-6- Pittsburgh Section Newsletter What is a TMDL? It’s is going to cost us a lot of money. What is it? TMDL is the Total Maximum Daily Load that can be imposed on a stream, river, or other water body when it fails to support its designated uses. In the words of the federal regulations: A Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) is the amount of pollutant loading that a waterbody can assimilate and meet our water quality standards. (Section 303(d) of the Federal Clean Water Act (40 CFR §130.7(a))). Bill Brown, Chief of the TMDL Development Section in the Division of Watershed Protection of the PADEP put it this way at a recent meeting of the Pittsburgh EWRI: The TMDL process is a planning tool to develop pollution reduction goals that will improve impaired waters to meet water quality standards. Compare this to the total maximum load that can be applied to a bridge: Gibson-Thomas Engineering Co., Inc. Consulting Engineers ISO 9001-2008 Certified Established 1916 Waterbody: Bridge: Water •• Wastewater Bridge & Highway• Civil & Municipal Cor po rate O ff i ce : Harrisburg Area Office 717-612-9880 1004 Ligonier Street Pitt sburgh Area Office 724-935-8188 • LA = Load Allocation (non-point • Dead Load – the ‘background’ P.O. Box 853 Clarion Area Office 724-526-2190 Latrobe, PA 15650 Indiana Area Office 724-471-2246 sources; restoration activities) weight of the structure Telephone: (724) 539-8562 [email protected] www.gibson-thomas.com

• WLA = Waste Load Allocations (point • Live Load – the weight of the objects sources; incorporated into NPDES moving across the bridge and their permits to discharge to the waterbody) impact that varies with their speed. when quality matters • MOS = margin of safety (uncertainty) • FOS – factor of safety allowed for unknowns, such as overweight Engineering Architecture and Design Services vehicles, deterioration of the Since 1955 structure, human error, etc. 412.754.0801 www.eadsgroup.com To protect the human food chain in the Altoona - Clarion - Johnstown - Pittsburgh - Somerset - Cumberland Chesapeake Bay, we have seen stringent standards applied to the Susquehanna River that drains to it, so that fish and shellfish thrive and are safe to eat. Since the Ohio River basin is home to fish and wildlife along with dozens of drinking water sources, and portions have been designated as impaired, TMDLs could apply there soon also. GEOTECHNICAL ENVIRONMENTAL Innovative Solutions for OIL & GAS So, since it will cost us so much money to unload our waterways, just how do they come Complex Problems. STRUCTURAL Offering comprehensive multi-disciplinary SEISMIC up with these limitations that we will have to pay to meet? civil engineering services. HYDROLOGY Corporate HQ\Pittsburgh, PA & MINING The PADEP conducts an Aquatic Life Use Survey, much like one would survey the (412) 856-9700 ENGINEERING ground and underlying soil conditions before designing and building a bridge.

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Look for more information from Bill Brown’s explanation in upcoming newsletter issues. For more information, contact Bill Brown, at PADEP, 717-783-2951, [email protected]

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