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UCTA Gulf Coast Meeting Highlights
UCTA Gulf Coast's Aug. 2 luncheon meeting featured Scott Taylor,
director of engineering for Conroe, TX. Taylor has more than 30
years of professional experience in the water and wastewater field,
leading both public infrastructure delivery and private sector planning and design.
In his current role, he directs the department responsible for
performing a variety of technical engineering work to ensure that
Scott Taylor
public and private infrastructure is analyzed, designed, constructed
and inspected in accordance with City
Codes, policies, standards and regulations.
This includes delivering capital projects, and
managing public and private infrastructure
development - a huge challenge in this fastest growing city (50,000 plus population) in
the country.
"Conroe grew 8 percent last year, to
about 84,000 people," he reported. "CurScholarship winners able to attend the August
meeting included (from left) Kenneth Scott
rently, growth is exceeding estimates, with
Walker II, Kaytlyn Vacrecka, Rahul Kilambi,
100,000 people forecasted by 2022."
Jessica Vera and Karly Brightwell.
The meeting also featured recipients of
the UCTA chapter's 2017 Scholarship award ($1,000 each) for use toward their education:
Karly Brightwell, Colleen Catania, Rahul Kilambi, Sara Olshefski, Kenneth Scott Walker II,
Kaytlyn Vacrecka, Jessica Vera and Ashney Vyas.
To be eligible for the award, students must be dependent children of full-time
employees -- in good standing -- of UCTA member companies, and enrolled in full-time,
post-graduate or undergraduate course study at an accredited two- or four-year college,
university or vocational-technical school.
Winners are selected based on cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale), classification (year/level of college) and heavy emphasis on the discussion paper students must
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Lane Construction Wins
$580-Million Tunnel Project

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LATEST INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENTS

Lane Construction Corporation and its parent,
Salini Impregilo, received a $580-million
contract for the Northeast Boundary Tunnel
(NEBT) project in Washington, D.C. This large,
deep sewer tunnel will increase the system's
capacity, significantly mitigating the frequency, magnitude and duration of sewer flooding.
It will also help improve the water quality of
the Anacostia River.

The joint-venture formed by Lane's subsidiary, S.A. Healy, and Salini Impregilo won the
design-build contract after being identified
as the best-value proposer by the District of
Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC
Water). Lane has a 70-percent stake in the
joint-venture and Salini Impregilo has the
remaining 30 percent.
NEBT, the biggest component of DC
Water's Clean Rivers Project, will be 50 to 160
feet below ground and run 27,000 feet just
south of Robert F. Kennedy Stadium to the
intersection of Rhode Island Avenue NW and
6th Street NW. It will be aligned to intersect
the existing chronic flood areas along Rhode
Island Avenue NW.
In times of flooding, the tunnel will receive
flows from the sewer system captured by
diversion facilities and convey them to DC
Water's Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater
Treatment Plant. The NEBT project will also
include construction of ventilation control
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