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AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL GEOLOGISTS Northeast Section

NEWSLETTER Indian Summer 2010

www.ne-aipg.org

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NEWSLETTER EDITOR PUBLISHER & ADVERTISING MANAGER

Bill Prehoda Dick Young United Water New York Consulting Geologist 360 West Nyack Rd 179 Intervale Road West Nyack, NY 10994 Parsippany, NJ 07054 845-620-3306 (Office) 973-335-2569 (Office) 845-620-3318 (Fax) 973-335-9799 (Fax) [email protected] [email protected] The Newsletter of the Northeast Section of the American Institute of Professional Geolo-gists is published four times annually and is mailed directly to Section Members under a Bulk Rate Permit as Dated Material at Parsippany, New Jersey. Design and Layout by Bill Prehoda and Dick Young. The Newsletter is printed in Parsippany, New Jersey by Staples. Preparation and distribution are accomplished by the Young family. Many thanks are ex-tended to all who helped in compiling this issue.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Executive Committee Directory ...................................................................... 5 Executive Committee Meeting Schedule ........................................................ 7 Presidential Ramblings .................................................................................. 8 Rocks in Their Heads ................................................................................... 15 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 3/8/10 ............................................. 22 AIPG/AGWT ASR Conference ..................................................................... 27 Where in the World? .................................................................................... 28 News of Members ........................................................................................ 29 Mining Film ................................................................................................... 37 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 5/12/10 ........................................... 39 Piggyback Mailing Information ..................................................................... 43 News From the Northeast ............................................................................ 50 2010 Spring Meeting Roundup .................................................................... 59 It’s Time For A Trip! ..................................................................................... 65 25 Years Ago in the NEAIPG Newsletter ..................................................... 74 Angelo Tagliacozzo Scholarship Fund Update ............................................ 76 2010 Index of Advertisers ...................................................................... 82-83 Angelo Tagliacozzo Scholarship Fund—List of Contributors ....................... 84

AIPG NORTHEAST SECTION NEWSLETTER

INDIAN SUMMER 2010 EDITION NO. 120

PUBLISHED BY THE NORTHEAST SECTION OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL GEOLOGISTS

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2010 NEAIPG EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESIDENT Mike Greenman, CPG-10442 890 Grant Place North Bellmore, NY 11710 [email protected] PRESIDENT- ELECT Jeff Frederick, CPG-10989 Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. 17-17 Route 208 North Fair Lawn, NJ 07410 Office: (201) 398-4318 Email: [email protected]

SECRETARY William (Tom) West, CPG-08935 Haley & Aldrich of New York 200 Town Centre Drive, Suite 2 Rochester, NY 14263-4264 Office: (585) 359-9000 Fax: (585) 359-4650 E-mail: [email protected] TREASURER Robert P. Blauvelt, CPG-06508 EWMA 100 Misty Lane, P.O. Box 5430 Parsippany, NJ 07054 phone (973) 560-1400 x168 fax (973) 560-0400 E-mail: [email protected] MEMBERS Dennis McGrath, CPG-08578 The Louis Berger Group, Inc. 565 Taxter Road, Suite 510 Elmsford, NY 10523 Office: 914-798-3716 Fax: 914-592-1734 E-mail: [email protected]

Bill Prehoda, CPG-09289 United Water New York 360 West Nyack Rd West Nyack, NY 10994 Office: (845) 620-3306 Fax: (845) 620-3318 E-mail: [email protected]

Laurie Scheuing, CPG-09898 46 Homestead Road Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-5808 Office: 518-695-9445 E-mail: [email protected]

George Tyers, CPG-10274 Roux Associates, Inc. 209 Shafter St. Islandia, NY 11749 Office: (631) 232-2600 Fax: (631)-232-9898 E-mail: [email protected]

Craig Werle, CPG-07412 Roux Associates, Inc. 209 Shafter St. Islandia, NY 11749 Office: (631) 232-2600 Fax: (631)-232-9898 E-mail: [email protected] Open Member Position PAST- PRESIDENT Robert A. Stewart, CPG-08332 Arcadis/LFR, Inc, 87 Church Street East Hartford, CT 06108 Office: (860)290-9300 Fax: (860) 290-9009 E-mail: [email protected] SCREENING BOARD CHAIRMAN Charles A. Rich, CPG-04433 CA Rich Consultants, Inc. 17 Dupont Street Plainview, NY 11803-1602 Office: (516) 576-8844 Fax: (516) 576-0093 E-mail: [email protected] NEWSLETTER EDITOR Bill Prehoda, CPG-09289 United Water New York 360 West Nyack Rd West Nyack, NY 10994 Office: (845) 620-3306 Fax: (845) 620-3318 E-mail: [email protected] DIRECTORY OF MEMBERS EDITOR Curtis A. Kraemer, CPG-06019 Shaw Group 111 Van Cedarfield Road Colchester, CT 06415 Office: 860-537-2935 Fax: 860-537-3019 E-mail: [email protected] PUBLISHER & ADVERTISING MANAGER Richard H. Young, CPG-03356 Consulting Geologist 179 Intervale Road Parsippany, NJ 07054 Office: 973-335-2569 // Home 973-335-2289 Fax: 973-335-9799 E-mail: [email protected] WEBMASTER Mike Greenman, CPG-10442 890 Grant Place North Bellmore, NY 11710 E-mail [email protected]

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2010 NORTHEAST SECTION SUBCOMMITTEES Advertising Sales: Dick Young Advisory Board Delegate: Open Financial Planning and Treasury: Bob Blauvelt, Curt Kraemer, Dick Young Legislative Liaison and Registration: Tom West (NY), Russell Slayback (CT), Sam Gowan, Tim Stone, Dorothy Richter (NH), Laurie Schueing (NY) Membership: Open Nominating: Bob Blauvelt Public Affairs: Dennis McGrath Scholarship: Sam Gowan, Dean Herrick, Len Rexrode, Craig Werle, Arnie Schiffman, Tom West, Dennis McGrath Section Directory: Curt Kraemer, Dick Young Section Meetings: Open Section Newsletter: Bill Prehoda, Editor; Dick Young, Publisher Screening Board: Charles Rich (Chairman), Don Bruehl, Carol Graff, William Penn, Daniel Toder, Andrews Tolman

2010 Executive Committee Meeting Schedule January 11 March 1 May 12 – Spring Meeting July 12 September 7 October 13 Fall Meeting (TBD) December 6

Meetings are typically held from 4:00 to 6:00 pm at the offices of Louis

Berger Group, Elmsford, New York or via teleconference Meetings are open to all members—hope to see you there!

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Presidential Ramblings

Mike Greenman, CPG-10442

President, NEAIPG As I look through the list of Northeast Section members, it be-comes obvious that the vast majority of our members are in the groundwater and environmental disciplines. When I was attending college in the 1960’s, a traditional geology program at the City University did not include a course in groundwater nor did it have courses in soils. If one wished, they could take an Engineering Geology course in the Civil Engineering De-partment. Permission to take the course was not a given, and depended on availability and enrollment, with Civil engineer-ing students getting first preference. This is a far cry from the current programs which seem to be oriented towards a multi-disciplinary approach to environmental issues. When I began working as an engineering geologist in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, many of my contemporaries said that they would not consider the field and insisted that the only place to be was in petroleum geology. Several years later, these same people came looking for work when the oil busi-ness went bust and all of a sudden engineering geology was no longer beneath them. Engineering, as opposed to petro-leum geology, seems to be a constant because things are al-ways being built, and soil borings must always be done as a precursor to building. During the fiscal crisis of the early 1970’s, the City of New York let maintenance go by the way-side since the money came out of the expense budget. Work-ers doing the maintenance were let go. In a quirk of municipal finance, there was money to build new since this money came from the sale of bonds. I remember going to one site in East-ern Queens to do soil borings for a series of seepage basins to handle heavy rain. I noticed that the street in question had basins along its whole stretch. Each basin was clogged with

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debris. If the City had the money for maintenance, the ba-sins could have been cleaned and there would be no need for the new basins. The Department for which I worked, General Services, was responsible for a wide array of public buildings. These in-cluded, police stations, fire houses, courthouses, prisons, museums, zoos, human resource centers, homeless shel-ters, libraries, health facilities, municipal buildings, etc. In addition to these public buildings, we did work for sewers, highways, bridges, parks, hospitals and sanitation facilities. Each type of structure had its own intrinsic design features and corresponding foundations. There were many interest-ing experiences over the years that were unique to the differ-ent projects. One of the funnier experiences occurred at the Bronx Zoo. We received a request to do borings for a new structure in a pen that was housing a cow. The Zoo was having no suc-cess breeding an animal called a guar. It was decided to use a cow as a surrogate mother and an embryo was implanted in the cow and carried to term. The cow gave birth to the baby guar but was obviously not happy with the whole affair. When we went to the holding pen for the cow, the head of construction for the zoo climbed the fence into the pen to show us where he wanted the borings. No sooner had he gone over the fence, than he vaulted back over. He had been charged at by the irritated cow. The cow was removed from the area before we commenced our borings. Prisons were not an especially friendly work environment. When I started with DGS, there were two or three separate prisons on Rikers Island. By the time I retired from DGS, there were 11 prisons and several expansions including re-ception centers, fencing, kitchens and security. As a geolo-gist just out of school it was not a very pleasant experience working near a prison work gang and being verbally threat-

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ened by a prisoner wielding a shovel. He was doing it just to get a laugh from his fellow inmates. Some projects required going through the prisons to get to prison yards. It was very spooky hearing the gates clang shut behind you and being in with the general prison population. Especially after being warned that you could be stuck behind bars if there is a lock down. Construction problems were always interesting and some were out and out stupid. We were called in on a problem at a police station in the Bronx where it seems that the station was built right in the middle of a former drainage area of one of the former major streams in the Bronx. The building’s basement was flooded every time there was a rain storm with the theory being that the water found its way into the for-mer water course and then into the basement of the police station. What could not be figured out was that the base-ment was designed with a drain around the outside of the



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foundation to stop the buildup of water pressure around the walls. The drain led to a sump which was then pumped out, or should have, if water flowed into it. We were called in to see why water was not being sent to the sump. One person in our party looked into the sump, reached into the drain pipe and pulled out a rag. It seems that during installation of the drain, the workers needed to work in a dry condition and had stuffed the drain with a rag. They had forgotten to take the rag out upon completion. Sometimes you just get lucky such as at a newly-constructed library in Brooklyn. The library had a terrible smell in it after it opened and the library just happened to be my local branch. I remembered going in and saying that the smell seemed to be natural gas. The library system had called in Brooklyn Union Gas Co. and according to their explosimeter, it was not natural gas. We were asked to do a series of soil borings around the site to try to determine the source of the smell (assuming that it came from the ground). Research showed that the library was built on the site of a former marsh and stream. After several days we were on the last of the borings when we hit a gas line that was not marked out by the utility companies. The library did not have gas ser-vice. What were the odds of hitting a 1” line with a 4” diame-ter hole. As it turned out, when the building previously on site was demolished, the gas service was never turned off. Gas was being released into the soil under the slab and then getting into the duct system. The odds of hitting that line seemed astronomically small, however as anyone in the drill-ing business can tell you, it happens all the time. The library that was closed during this time was allowed to reopen. Also under the category of just getting lucky is the case of a police station in the South Bronx. We did a series of borings across from the station in a vacant lot. The borings were done on a grid across the site and rock was shallow, less than ten feet below the surface. On one of the borings in the



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middle of the site the rock just disappeared (these were the days before ground penetrating radar and other investigative tools). We did a series of rock probes starting at the boring and radiating out in all directions at 5 foot intervals. We dis-covered a narrow cleft in the rock, no more than 10 feet wide, where a stream may have eroded a narrow valley. If we didn’t hit this small cleft there would have been large cost overruns in the construction of the foundation. As it was, the designers were able to redesign some of the footings and design beams to span the area. Again, luck prevailed. Many of the engineering problems encountered in New York City concern old water courses and marshes that have been covered over. Builders have forgotten or choose to ignore the fact that water will continue to flow through these buried streams. I will talk more about these problems in future Ramblings, as well as the wealth of information available concerning these water courses. Of concern are the ethics of designers, engineers, and builders who continue to build in unsuitable areas as sites become less desirable. -The End


Rocks in their heads This is an interesting development, and often (if not ever) heard of - the State of California is entertaining the idea of dropping the official state rock - serpentine. Why defrock the state rock? It seems that the asbestos found in the rock, and asbestos' cancer causing issues, is too much for some people to be honoring the rock on a statewide basis. Detrac-tors claim that chrysotile is a less harmful form of asbestos, but this fact doesn't seem to be gaining traction and propo-nents of the defrocking claim it is a consumer safety issue. That got me thinking about state rocks, and what do we have here in the Northeast section? See for yourself:

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State Gem or Gemstones Maine Tourmaline Massachusetts Rhodonite New Hampshire Smokey Quartz New York Garnet Vermont Grossular Garnet Mineral Connecticut Garnet Massachusetts Babingtonite New Hampshire Beryl Rhode Island Bowenite Vermont Talc Rock or Stone Massachusetts Roxbury Pudding Stone (Jasper) New Hampshire Conway Granite Rhode Island Cumberlandite Vermont Granite, Marble, Slate -The End—Ed.

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Meeting Minutes

NORTHEAST SECTION – AIPG

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES

The Louis Berger Group, Inc. 565 Taxter Road, Suite 510

Elmsford, NY 10523

Monday, March 8, 2010 1. Call to Order – 16:05 hrs: By Phone - Bob Blauvelt, Mike Greenman, Dennis McGrath, Bill Prehoda, Dan St. Ger-main, Laurie Scheuing, Jeff Frederick, Bob Stewart, Craig Werle, Dick Young, George Tyers, Minutes by W Thomas West 2. Secretary’s Report: The Secretary’s report covering the January meeting was circulated electronically prior to the meeting. The meeting minutes were reviewed and a motion was made, seconded, and approved to finalize the January meeting minutes pending any additional revisions received by March 12, 2010. 3. Treasurer’s Report: The Ex Com reviewed and dis-cussed the Angelo Tagliacozzo Memorial Geologic Scholar-ship Trust Fund (ATMGSTF) and Section Treasurer’s re-ports. Bob Blauvelt has started preparing monthly Treas-urer’s reports and a draft 2010 Section budget (see New Business Item below) was distributed for discussion during the March 2010 Ex Com meeting. 4. Correspondence: No new correspondence.

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5. Old Business: ● Spring Meeting – The spring meeting is scheduled to be he ld a t L i be r t y S t a t e Pa rk ( h t t p : / /www.libertystatepark.org/) on May 12th. The meeting will include a presentation and tour by Dr. Frank Gallagher of the ecological and environmental restoration activities at Liberty State Park. After the meeting, dinner will be held at Casa Dante (voted best Italian restaurant in North Jersey) located in Jersey City, NJ. Bob Blauvelt agreed to help prepare the meeting announcement for distribution in the next Section newsletter. ● Short Course – Due to time limitations for announcing the short course, the Executive Committee agreed to elimi-nate the short course from the spring meeting agenda. The Executive Committee agreed that presenting a short course would be a viable fund-raising mechanism, but noted that ad-ditional efforts to market the course prior to the meeting would be required for the short-course to have sufficient par-ticipants and be successful. ● Vacant Executive Committee Positions: Jeff Fredrick has agreed to assume the president-elect position that was vacated when Mike Greenman assumed the office of Section president. A motion was made, seconded, and approved by the Section officers to accept Jeff Frederick’s nomination to the vacated president-elect position. Currently there is one Member-at-Large position vacant on the Executive Commit-tee, and a brief discussion was held regarding efforts to fill the open Member-at-Large position.

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6. New Business: ● ATGMSF 2010 Awards – The scholarship chair, Den-nis McGrath, provided a summary of the scholarship commit-tee’s evaluations and recommendations for 2010. The schol-arship committee recommended awarding five scholarships totaling $7,000 as follows: Cindy Colon, Rutgers University - $2,000 Cameron Morissette, Salem State College - $2,000 Daria Vilanova, Southern CT State College - $1,000 Jessica Farrell, Eastern CT State University - $1,000 Angelica Ventrelli, Hofstra University - $1,000 After the scholarship recommendations were presented and discussed, the officers of the ATGMSF (the current Section officers) made a motion, which was seconded and approved, to accept the recommendations of the scholarship commit-tee. Finally, after much discussion, the Executive Committee entertained a motion to contribute $4,000 from the Section fund to the ATGMSF trust fund, with a provision to re-evaluate additional contributions (to match the total amount of the 2010 scholarship awards) at the next Section meeting. The motion was seconded, discussed, and approved. ● Draft 2010 Section Budget – Bob Blauvelt has pre-pared a draft 2010 proposed Section budget. After a brief discussion, it was agreed that the draft budget needed fur-ther review and revisions prior to being voted upon. Bob Blauvelt agreed to obtain additional information regarding the cost of publishing the newsletter as well as advertising reve-nue from Dick Young. Bob Blauvelt will then revise and re-submit the draft Section budget at the Spring meeting. 5. Adjournment – 1755 hours.


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AIPG 47th Annual Meeting & Conference - AGWT 10th Florida ASR Conference

The American Ground Water Trust’s 10th Annual Florida ASR Conference is being organized jointly with the Ameri-can Institute Professional Geologists (Orlando, Sept 12 – 15). The 2010 event has tracks with two full days of aquifer recharge presentations and many other conference ses-sions covering different aspects of geology. This event pro-vides the latest information on research, operational experi-ence and regulatory issues associated with Aquifer Re-charge. Aquifer recharge field trips (pre and post confer-ence) provide a unique opportunity for visits to seven differ-ent recharge sites. The links below will connect you with details of this “must attend” event for all water professionals who are involved, or are likely to be involved with aquifer recharge. DETAILS OF Sept 12th AQUIFER RECHARGE FIELD TRIP http://www.agwt.org/events/2010/2010FL_Fieldtrip1.htm DETAILS OF Sept 15th AQUIFER RECHARGE FIELD TRIP http://www.agwt.org/events/2010/2010FL_Fieldtrip2.htm EXPLANATION OF THE AIPG AGWT CONFERENCE PARTNERSHIP h t t p : / / w w w . a g w t . o r g / A S R / 2 0 1 0 F L _ A G W T -AIPG_Conf_Partnership.pdf CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM http://aipg.org/Meetings/2010%20Annual%20Meeting/Orlando_Registration_Form.pdf ONLINE REGISTRATION ON THE AIPG WEB-SITE http://aipg.org.

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WHERE IN THE WORLD?

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NEWS OF MEMBERS

Donald W. Richardson, CPG-10682, RBP, Vice Present of EWMA, reports that he par-ticipated in the NAIOP Commercial Real Es-tate Development Association Seminar Series regarding regulatory updates in the New Jer-sey Department of Environmental Protection Site Remediation and Land Use programs. The program was held on June 16th in New Brunswick, NJ and also featured the new NJDEP Commissioner Mr. Robert Martin. Don moderated a panel of experts opining on site remediation reform meas-ures and the impacts to re-development. The event offered an overview of the changes happening at NJDEP and the overall regulatory process geared toward clarification and discussion of the impact of new environmental leg-islation on business, including real estate transactions, environmental insurance, relationships with consult-ants, ethics, and the NJDEP Site Remediation Program. Don also spoke at the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education’s event, “2010 Envi-ronmental Law Section Forum Weekend,” on the topic of “Post Remedial Care Liabilities and Solutions.” The program was held at the Golden Inn Hotel & Resort in Avalon, New Jersey. Jeff Frederick, CPG 10989, has graciously volunteered to fill the NEAIPG President-Elect position due to the elevation of Mike Greenman, CPG-10442 to NEAIPG President after the untimely loss of our President, Kurt Stokes, CPG-07934. Thank you Jeff for your current and future efforts for the Sec-tion!

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Tom Johnson, CPG-07422, reports that his daughter, a ge-ology student, forwarded this very interesting letter regarding our Italian colleagues across the pond: Subject: Letter of support for Italian earthquake scientists indicted for failing to predict the L'Aquila Earthquake

Dear colleagues and friends,

Two weeks ago the L’Aquila Prosecutor’s office indicted of man-slaughter the members of the National High Risk Committee that met in L'Aquila one week before the Mw6.3 earthquake.

The charges are for failing to provide a short term alarm to the population before the earthquake struck, killing more than 300 people.

The president of INGV, Enzo Boschi (member of the High Risk Committee), and the director of the National Earthquake Center, Giulio Selvaggi (just accompanying Boschi to the meeting as tech-nical specialist), are among the scientists in seismology and earth-quake engineering now under investigation together with some civil protection officials.

We think that the allegations against the scientists are completely unfounded and we look for support on this from the international scientific community working on earthquakes and in the Earth sci-ences in general.

We invite you to sign the letter addressed to the President of the Italian Republic, published at the web page www.mi.ingv.it/open_letter/ . We also would be glad if you could extend this invi-tation to other seismologists that can possibly share our initiative.

We hope that by this action we can increase the awareness of people on earthquake risk reduction through education, prepared-ness, and a long term program of building reinforcement. Vince Uhl, CPG-06519, of the Lambertville, New Jersey based firm of Uhl, Baron, Rana & Associates, Inc., has been away from the states for awhile working on water resources development projects in Southwest Afghanistan. Vince and his firm recently completed a groundwater resource investi-

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gation in Farah Province southwest Afghanistan for the Farah Provincial Re-construction Team (PRT). Vince spent 2 months in-country working with UBR’s Afghan partner firm, Basic Afghanistan Services (BAS), to con-duct field surveys evaluat-ing the groundwater re-source development po-tential for irrigation use in several areas of the Province. Vince indicates that the study confirmed that there are oppor-tunities for irrigation development in the Province as well as the need for demonstration of new irrigation tech-nologies and best practices. Technical input and guidance to improve irrigation appli-cation efficiency will reduce water usage, allow more areas to be irrigated and reduce pumping costs. It was recommended that this be accomplished through demonstra-tion plots on existing farms, and for new farm development. The project was completed in the latter part of 2009 under United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funding, and a Phase 2 project involving Training Workshops for local drilling companies, USAID contractors, and govern-ment ministries, as well as technical assistance in well siting,



Vince Uhl along the Farah River

Irrigation Well Drill Site in Southwest Afghanistan

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design and installation for irrigation use is in progress. Anthony Rana of UBR is cur-rently in Afghanistan leading this effort. UBR has been work-ing in Afghanistan since 2003 in the ar-eas of water resources exploration, develop-ment and manage-ment. Alfred Moffit, CPG-11106, Director, Site Assessments and Compliance Ser-vices for EWMA in the Parsippany, NJ office questions whether or not every-one is aware of a law New Jersey De-partment of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) follows that places a cap on the amount of oversight costs (fees) NJDEP can charge for a specific site, and problems related to the practice. Alfred and his firm EWMA have negoti-ated a refund for several clients due to excess oversight costs based on this law and other reasons. Alfred indicates that the NJDEP typically issues invoices on a quarterly basis for oversight costs. As stated in P.L. 2002 Chapter 37 supplementing NJSA 58:10B-1 et al., there is a 7.5% cap on the oversight costs that can be assessed by NJDEP as of July 1, 2002. This 7.5% cap is reviewed upon issuance of the no further action (NFA) for the case but only if the consultant, attorney, or client bring this information to NJDEP’s attention. Alfred reports that his clients are also



Vince Uhl at a drill site in Farah Province

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receiving invoices with old or duplicate charges for oversight fees which his firm has successfully challenged and obtained up to 30% reduction. On a recent case, EWMA informed NJDEP that, since July 1, 2002, NJDEP oversight fees were $23,440.95 while environ-mental costs associated with this project during the same timeframe were $34,566.36. Since the site received NFA, the maximum amount of oversight fees under this regulation should only be $2,592.48 (7.5% of $34,566.36). EWMA pro-vided NJDEP with documentation supporting this claim to obtain a refund for the client. Alfred strongly recommends that, upon receiving the NFA letter or Remedial Action Outcome (RAO) the NJDEP over-sight invoices from 2002 on be reviewed to determine if this 7.5% cap applies to your project. The impact of the LSRP program has yet to be determined on oversight fees as they can still be assessed for portions of a project. What is going on in your world? Drop us a line - [email protected].


Mining Film Reportedly, a topic not too often seen in films, mining, will be the focus of a new film under-way called "Switchback". Apparently the movie is to document the Irish immigrants who worked in the former iron mines in the eastern Adirondacks. The location for the film shoot will be in Moriah, New York and other areas of Essex County. The movie will be featuring ac-tor Paul Sorvino and his son, Michael Sorvino. The film was to have started production in May.

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Meeting Minutes

NORTHEAST SECTION – AIPG

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES

Liberty State Park Jersey City, New Jersey

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

1. Call to Order – 1325 hrs: Mike Greenman, Bob Blau-velt, Dennis McGrath, Bill Prehoda, Jeff Frederick, and Dave Streetmith (PA Section member); by phone Laurie Scheuing; minutes by W Thomas West. 2. Secretary’s Report: The Secretary’s report covering the March meeting was circulated electronically prior to the meeting. The meeting minutes were reviewed and a motion was made, seconded, and approved to finalize the March meeting minutes pending any additional revisions received by May 28, 2010. 3. Treasurer’s Report: The Ex Com reviewed and dis-cussed the March and April monthly Angelo Tagliacozzo Me-morial Geologic Scholarship Trust Fund (ATMGSTF) and Section Treasurer’s reports. Bob Blauvelt had prepared and distributed a draft 2010 Section budget during the March 2010 Ex Com meeting; no action was taken during the May 2010 meeting regarding the draft Section Budget. 4. Correspondence: No new correspondence.


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5. Old Business: ● Short Course – Due to time limitations for announcing the short course, the Executive Committee agreed to elimi-nate the short course from the spring meeting agenda. How-ever, Bob Blauvelt indicated that the presenter (Lee Slater) would be interested in possibly presenting a revamped Geo-physical short-course in association with the Section later this year. The Executive Committee agreed that presenting a short course would be a viable fund-raising mechanism, but noted that additional efforts to market the course prior to the meeting would be required for the short-course to have sufficient participants and be successful. ● Vacant Executive Committee Positions: Currently there is one Member-at-Large position vacant on the Execu-tive Committee. A brief discussion was held regarding ef-forts to fill the open Member-at-Large position. ● ATGMSF 2010 Awards –Dennis McGrath noted that all of the scholarship recipients had received/cashed their award checks with one exception. Dennis intended to follow-up with the award-winner to confirm that they did receive their check. In addition, Dennis is planning on getting the 2011 ATGMSF award announcement out to the colleges in August 2010. 6. New Business: ● Draft 2010 Section Budget – Bob Blauvelt has pre-pared a revised draft 2010 proposed Section budget and is planning to distribute the revised budget to the Ex Com for review prior to the next (July) meeting.



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The NE/AIPG Newsletter has expanded the options offered to advertisers to include Piggyback Mailing. Now you can include pre-printed promotional flyers or brochures along with our normal mailing of the Newsletter. Piggybacking gives NE/AIPG advertisers a cost-effective way to get their promotional material into the hands of NE/AIPG's targeted audience of decision-makers. That audience has grown to over 700, including 600± NE/AIPG Members and Applicants throughout New York, New Jersey, and the six New England states, 50± AIPG National and Section Officers, over 80 advertisers, and others. Likewise, NE/AIPG benefits from additional income and from keeping members current on available, innovative products and services. Rates depend upon the size and weight of the promotional piece. A single 8 1/2” by 11" sheet of 20# paper, pre-printed, and pre-folded costs $0.20 each to Piggyback. To schedule Piggybacking your promotional information or to learn more, just call Dick Young at 973-335-2289.

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● Fall Meeting – The fall meeting is tentatively sched-uled for either Wednesday October 13th or October 20th. A venue/topic for the meeting has yet to be determined; the Fall Meeting agenda will be discussed/confirmed at the next Ex Com meeting in July. ● Section Website – The Section website has served the section well, but since it is over 10 years old, it was de-veloped on an older web-platform, which limits some of its access capabilities and functionality. Recognizing that most of the Ex-com members are not web-design savvy, Dennis McGrath suggested exploring the possibility of have a sepa-rate section account on the National website to increase visi-bility and obtain additional functions. Dennis agreed to re-port back to the Ex Com with additional details on upgrading the Section website at the next Ex Com meeting. ● NYSCPG Update – Laurie Scheuing provided an up-date on the licensure efforts in New York State. The licen-sure bill was re-written and introduced in the NYS Assembly. According to Laurie, edits were made to the bill (without NYSCPG authorization) that included reciprocity for profes-sional surveyors. The NYSCPG contacted Senator Thomp-son who agreed to revise the bill and remove the surveyor’s language. The bill is currently in the finance committee un-dergoing review. Laurie acknowledged that the NYSCPG could always use additional members and that the newsletter was being distributed electronically to all current (and previ-ous members). Finally, a meeting scheduled with the chair of higher education (Deb Glick) was recently canceled; the meeting was reportedly canceled due to the ongoing NYS budget deficit/crisis. As a result of the economic and political forecast, Laurie did not believe that there was a favorable environment that would allow the licensure bill to pass during the 2010 fiscal year. 5. Adjournment – 1510 hours.


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News From the Northeast New Hampshire The New Hampshire PG Statute 10 Years Later Submitted by: Dorothy Richter, CPG-07033 It is hard to believe that it has been ten (10!) years since the bill establishing the licensing of Professional Geologists in the State of New Hampshire was signed into law (RSA 310-A:118-139). Many NE-AIPG members will never forget the melodramatic 2½-year roller coaster ride we had in getting the bill passed. It would never have happened without the individual contributions made by multiple members of the geologic community and the support of NE-AIPG.

Fortunately, any controversy or melodrama is long gone. The PG license is now well respected in New Hampshire, as we all knew it would be, and the New Hampshire Board of Professional Geologists (PG Board), which issues the li-censes, is firmly established and running smoothly. It seems timely to provide an update to the NE-AIPG membership.

The PG Board is a part of the Joint Board of Licensure and Certification. The PG Board consists of five professional ge-ologists (including Dorothy Richter, CPG-07033, and the State Geologist David Wunsch, Mem-0147), plus one public member. Appointment to the Board is made by the Governor and Executive Council for five-year terms, except for the State Geologist, who is a Board member by definition in the statute. The staff of the Joint Board smoothly performs most of the administrative duties.

In the past decade, the NH PG Board has issued 794 PG li-censes, 639 of which were in good standing as of June 1, 2010. The drop of 155 licenses is primarily due to non-

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renewals, many of which occurred during the first round of renewals following the end of the ‘grandfather’ period. The geographic distribution of active PG licenses in the NE-AIPG states is:

New Hampshire 235 Massachusetts 208 Maine 44 New York 32 Connecticut 25 Vermont 21 New Jersey 15 Rhode Island 6 Total 586

(Approximately 84 are NE Section AIPG members) The Joint Board staff has administered the ASBOG examina-tion, required for PG licensure in New Hampshire and other states, since the end of the initial ‘grandfather’ period for li-censing without examination. We have data for September, 2007 - March, 2010, during which 42 people took the Funda-mentals of Geology portion of the examination, and 32 passed (76%). In the same time frame, 32 individuals took the Practice of Geology portion of the test, and 31 passed (97%). The New Hampshire pass rates are much higher than the national averages of 58% and 71%, respectively, reported by ASBOG for the same time period.

The continuing education requirements of the PG statute seem to have been met by almost all licensees. The Joint Board contracts an outside party to randomly select 5% of the pool of PG licensees for an annual audit of compliance with the continuing education requirements. The PG Board is not informed whom is selected for audit and does not re-view results unless an individual refuses to cooperate with the audit. Be sure to keep good records of your continuing education activities, and please cooperate with the Joint Board staff if you are selected for audit. NE-AIPG provides

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many wonderful opportunities to help fulfill the continuing education requirements.

Unlike many other State licensing boards, the PG Board has not received any formal complaint about a NH PG since the Board was established. To date, there have been only three disciplinary matters brought before the Board, all of which were uncontested. Two of the disciplinary actions were re-lated to non-compliance with the continuing education re-quirements of the statute uncovered during the annual au-dits, and resulted in involuntary revocation of the licenses. One disciplinary matter was due to a felony conviction of a licensee for crimes unrelated to the practice of geology, and resulted in voluntary surrender of the license.

New Hampshire’s ethics and right-to-know statutes require that all questions, concerns, clarifications, suggestions, for-mal complaints, or any other matters to be considered by any State Board, including the PG Board, must be submitted in writing to the Board offices. All State Board business must be conducted only during scheduled meetings, for which minutes are kept and which are open to the public. Oral or other informal communications by Board members with members of the public or licensees outside of Board meet-ings are not permitted to avoid the appearance that any indi-vidual speaks for a Board.

Members of the PG Board are explicitly instructed not to re-spond to any individual or to discuss Board matters outside of scheduled meetings. Please do not contact individual PG Board members with your questions, but do send them in writing to the Joint Board offices. In most cases, the Joint Board staff will promptly answer administrative questions, and more substantive issues will be considered by the PG Board at its next meeting.

Please remember, too, that the PG Board cannot provide opinions about many professional issues. The role of the PG Board is limited to licensing Professional Geologists in the

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State of New Hampshire in accordance with the licensing statute. The purpose of that statute, for which we all worked so hard, is to regulate the practice of geology “in order to safeguard life, health, property and the environment and to promote public welfare” (RSA 310A:119). Please do visit the PG Board website for information and to review the statute that governs the Board and its administrative rules at www.nh.gov/jtboard/geo.htm.

New York

Licensure Effort in New York, Submitted by: Laurie E. Scheuing, CPG-09898, PG 2010 NYSCPG President

The New York State legislature has been consumed by the budget negotiations. We are still without a state budget, so as you can imagine our bill to license geologists has not received much attention. We have, however, made some progress this year. Our “same-as” bills (A-4774C and S2784-B) were introduced into the Sen-ate and Assembly last year and because of the two-year legis-lative cycle did not need to be reintroduced this year. On Janu-ary 6, 2010, the bills were referred to the Higher Education committees in both houses. On March 10, 2010, the Senate version was reported out of the Higher Education committee and committed to codes. We were able to avert last minute changes to the language of the Senate version of the bill, and on June 22, 2010, the bill passed the NYS Senate. We have also reestablished communication with the Profes-sional Land Surveyors. We have had a conference call with their representatives and their lobbyists and hope to continue to have fruitful discussions in the future. We have also had meetings with each of our sponsors, Senator Antoine Thompson and Assemblyman Steve Englebright, as well as Assemblymember Deborah Glick, chair of the Higher



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Finally, we are redoubling our membership efforts. Thanks to all our individual, prospector, and corporate members. If you are not a member, I encourage you take a few minutes and join NYSCPG. Please pass the information along to your col-leagues and your employers and see if they would consider one of our various levels of corporate sponsorship. It is imperative that we increase our membership ranks so that we can say that we have the support of the geologists within the state and also to raise the funds to hire a professional lobbyist to move the bill through the process during the next legislative session.

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2010 SPRING MEETING ROUNDUP Liberty State Park Interpretative Center

Jersey City, New Jersey On Wednesday, May 12, 2010, the Northeast Section of AIPG invited all who wanted to brave the elements to attend a presentation and tour by Dr. Frank Gallagher (NJ Depart-ment of Environmental Protection and Rutgers University) of the ecological and environmental restoration activities within Liberty State Park. Liberty State Park is one of the state's most dramatic parks with the Manhattan skyline, the Statue of Liberty, and Ellis Island provided as a spectacular back-drop (even on an overcast, somewhat rainy day we chose for the trip). A two-mile promenade, Liberty Walk, links a picnic area, Inter-pretive Center, and the Central Railroad of New Jersey Ter-minal (CRRNJ), while presenting visitors with a sweeping view of the Hudson River. There is also an In-terpretive Center which is an environmental and historical education facility located on "Freedom Way". Open year-round, the Center features exhibits focusing on the natural

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history and ecology of the Hudson River Estuary and offers programs for school and community groups and the gen-eral public. Mem-bers of the ExCom gathered at the cen-ter for our "pre-meeting" gathering of the ExCom.

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After the ExCom meeting, our next stop was to gather at the historic CRRNJ terminal, which was a grand railroad terminal for trains approaching and leaving metropolitan New York. Once the group was assembled, Dr. Gallagher provided us with an excellent kick off lecture regarding the processes by which the former Jersey Central Rail Yards, which sit atop highly contaminated soils, have been converted into a fully functioning and recovering eco-system. According to Dr. Gal-lagher, "The State of New Jersey has spent the past 30 years acquiring the land, planning and building a park infra-structure that is suitable for public recreation and protecting the associated habitats. With approximately five million visi-tors annually, the park's development has been an extraordi-nary success". Dr. Gallagher indicated that "The four com-ponents of the restoration project include the creation of ap-proximately 46 acres of salt marsh, the creation and/or en-hancement of approximately 26 acres of freshwater wet-lands, the creation of approximately 50 acres warm weather grasslands and the enhancement of approximately 100 acres of urban successional northern hardwoods and maritime shrub assemblages."

Following the technical presentation, Dr. Gallagher led the group on a van tour of selected locations in the restored brownfields area, starting with a restored pond/wetland area. Dr. Gallagher pointed out the special adaptations that flora and fauna have made in order to survive and thrive in this unique urban setting.

Becoming increasingly hungry, the group thanked Dr. Galla-gher for his presentation and parted ways. The group some-how found its way through Jersey City to Casa Dante which has been voted Best Italian Restaurant in North Jersey for 3 Consecutive Years (and reportedly a favorite haunt of none other than Bob Blauvelt). Parking is very interesting in this neck of the woods. Obviously, a great meal was had by all at this wonderful restaurant and plans for the next meeting were beginning to emerge. The end—Ed.

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While musing on locations for the Fall Meeting (TBA), we discussed a (somewhat) new destination in the Hudson Valley of New York, the “Walkway over the Hudson” in Poughkeepsie, NY. The Walkway is a new New York State Park, being dedicated as part of the Hud-son Fulton Champlain Quadricentennial in October 2009. The Walkway is billed as the longest pedestrian bridge in the world

at 1.28 miles long and, even more spectacular is that it is 212 feet above the Hudson River. I have been to the bridge a couple of times now, and have to say it is worth the diversion, if not a trip in itself. Both days that I visited were sunny and both were windy—and being over 200 feet above the Hudson, it can be windy. The Walk-way is very popular and there were a lot of people at the

park. You can either get on the Walkway in Pough-keeps ie , NY on the East side of the River, or in High-land, NY, on the West side

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of the River (my en-trance way). According to the new ASCE dedica-tion plaque on the bridge, "The Pough-keepsie-Highland Bridge is the oldest surviving steel canti-lever bridge in the world and, when built, had the long-est truss and canti-lever spans. The bridge pro-vided the first, and only, all-rail route across the Hudson River south of Albany, and it facilitated the movement of coal eastward and manufac-tured goods westward for 85 years." Trains first started cross-ing the bridge in 1889, however after a fire on May 8, 1974, the railroad ceased operation due to the expense of repair. In 1992, organized efforts began to provide public access to the bridge and also to connect rail trails on both sides of the Hudson River. The Walkway Over the

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Hudson organization assumed ownership of the bridge in 1998. Significant progress was made when in 2007 the organization partnered with the Dyson Founda-tion to access public and private funding to conduct rehabilitation of the bridge. As part of the reha-bilitation, the bridge was still sound after all these years although with some replacements to the structure. The rails and ties were removed and replaced with large concrete decking panels. Railings keep the wind from blowing you off the deck. Geology? There is reportedly approxi-mately 70 feet of river deposited clay, silt, sand over a 15 feet of gravel on bedrock. The bridge piers set on the gravel layer. Sedi-mentary shale and limestone underlie the east and west approaches. Visit the websites at http://www.walkway.org/index.php and http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/178/details.aspx. The end—Ed.

(Its Time For a Trip Continued from page 68)

Top: Looking south at the Mid-Hudson Bridge; above looking North; below, barge approach-ing the Walkway from the South.

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25 YEARS AGO IN THE NEAIPG NEWSLETTER Indian Summer 1985

• The Fall Meeting, by popular demand, was back at the

Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory in Palisades, New York. The featured speaker was Dr. Kim Kastens, giving a talk on “The Structural Volcanic Expression of a South-slipping ridge-transform-ridge plate boundary’ high resolution surveys at the Clipperton Transform Fault.” A tour of the computer mapping facilities by Dr. William Haxby followed the speaker. Of course, complimentary cocktails were offered to the thirsty audience. After the $20 buffet dinner, Dr. Haxby discussed his work on inter-preting gravity field data transmitted by the short-lived SEASAT satellite that circled the earth in 1978.

• The Petroleum Information Corporation of Denver, Colo-rado, offered well data, production data, drilling reports, logs, maps and software in their advertisement where it indicated that “searching for oil is hard enough without searching for information.”

• NEAIPG President, Ted Clark, reflected on the very suc-cessful 1985 Spring Symposium held in Troy, New York where 80 plus people were in attendance and excellent papers were presented by a total of 14 speakers. Ted indicated that a highlight of the 2-day program was the panel discussion on “State Groundwater Protection Poli-

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cies and Problems”, with panelists: Dennis Wolterding, Senior Engineering Geologist, NYSDEC; James Murphy, Principal Environmental Analyst, Connecticut Department of Water Compliance; David Butterfield, Groundwater Management Chief, Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, Montpelier, Vermont; and Ar-nold Schiffman, NJDEP Division of Water Resources, Water Quality Management Element, Trenton, New Jer-sey. The Friday afternoon field trip was led by Eric Han-son, Senior Hydrogeologist with Dunn Geoscience, where he discussed the complexities and depositional sequence of some of the area’s major unconsolidated aquifers.

• President Clark also reports that Angelo Tagliacozzo, and the NEAIPG Screening Board, have been promoting the use of a more comprehensive applicant reference form to be completed by the sponsor. The form requires the sponsor to prepare rather definite statements about the applicant’s qualifications, thus allowing the Screening Board to reach more objective decisions.

• The Guest Editorial was provided by David Miller, of Ger-aghty & Miller, Inc., where he opined that all of the groundwater cleanup activities occurring, while mostly justified, may be diverting precious resources away from preventing groundwater pollution in the first place. He suggested that Professional geologists can play a signifi-cant role in balancing the scale between cleanup and pro-tection. David goes on to say that the majority of the con-tamination problems affecting public supply wells that he has worked on are traceable to poor industrial house-keeping practices, disposal of toxic consumer products into home septic systems, leaks from gasoline storage facilities, and runoff from urban, mining, and agricultural activities, not Superfund sites.

• New members listed in the issue included Edward T. Oaksford, Frederick M. Beck, Donald E. Jones, Lonnie D. Norman, Fred L. Troise, James T. Mickam, Robert A. Saar, Dennis R. Sasseville, Thomas W. Fowler and C. McDonald Grout. -The end.

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ANGELO TAGLIACOZZO MEMORIAL GEOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP

Dennis G. McGrath, CPG Chair, Scholarship Committee

As in past years, the announcement and application form are planned for distribution between late August and early Sep-tember. A package consisting of a cover letter, two color an-nouncements suitable for posting on a department bulletin board or circulating to students (8.5 x 11-inch and 11 x 17-inch formats), and an application form will be sent to faculty at colleges and universities in the eight states that comprise the Northeast Section (CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, and VT). Last year approximately 120 letters were sent out. The announcement and application form will be posted on and can be downloaded from our web site (www.ne-aipg.org). The Angelo Tagliacozzo Memorial Geological Scholarship announcement will also be listed on www.scholarships.com, a free college scholarship search web site. The deadline for submitting applications this year will be De-cember 7, 2010. The deadline was moved to early Decem-ber while colleges are still in session two years ago on a trial basis. Previously the submittal deadline coincided with the holiday break when both students and faculty are off-campus and occasional problems occurred submitting a complete package with a faculty recommendation letter on time. That problem has not re-occurred with the early December sub-mittal, so we are sticking with the early December deadline. The Scholarship Committee will begin their evaluations shortly thereafter. By the time the Winter 2010 Newsletter is published, I should be able to report on the number of appli-cations received.

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NEAIPG NEWSLETTER 2010 PUBLICATION SCHEDULE

Winter Newsletter January 22 Deadline (Material to Editor) February 5 Content ready to print February 22 Dispatch by mail/e-mail March 8 Receipt by Members Directory of Members February 19 Deadline (Material to Editor) March 5 Content ready to print April 12 Dispatch by mail/e-mail April 26 Receipt by Members Spring Newsletter March 12 Deadline (Material to Editor) March 26 Content ready to print April 12 Dispatch by mail/e-mail April 26 Receipt by Members Indian Summer Newsletter July 2 Deadline (Material to Editor) July 23 Content ready to print August 16 Dispatch by mail/e-mail September 1 Receipt by Members Holidays Newsletter October 8 Deadline (Material to Editor) October 22 Content ready to print November 8 Dispatch by mail/e-mail November 22 Receipt by Members

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Our success in growing the Angelo Tagliacozzo Memorial Geological Scholarship Trust Fund is largely attributed to your generosity – the members of the Northeast Section - AIPG. Because of the ongoing turmoil in the financial mar-kets, financial need is expected to rise so continued growth of the fund is even more important. The long-standing goal of the scholarship program has been and still is to get 100% participation from the membership. The size of your contri-bution is not as important as making a contribution. Give what you can afford, but give something. Look for the insert in this newsletter and mail-in your contribution today. If your contribution is received before the end of 2010, you will re-ceive a tax-deduction for this year. Remember: the Angelo Tagliacozzo Memorial Geological Scholarship is a scholar-ship for geologists, awarded by geologists. Be a part of our success, give something back to your profession, and help us continue to aid undergraduate geology students in need of financial support!

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Where in the World? (answers from page 28)

Skocjan Caves in Slovenia, reportedly contain the largest known underground canyon in the world and is a UNESCO site. The caves are lo-cated in the original type Karst (Kras) region. According to Unesco, the cave area contains nu-

merous karst features such as sink holes, natural bridges, gorges, potholes, collapse dolines, abysses, under-ground canyon, passages covered with flowstone de-posits, springs etc. Photo from UNESCO.

Where in the Northeast?

A very stunning syncline and anticline in the Ordovician Bascom Fm (limestone and dolostone, Bennington Bypass, Bennington, VT (Photo: Tom Eliassen, 2003). This is a relatively new road cut (road opened in the mid 2000’s) bypassing Bennington, VT (Route 279) that really catches your eye, es-pecially on the westbound lanes looking south so you have some distance between you and the outcrop.

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2010 INDEX OF ADVERTISERS

Alpha Analytical ......................................................................... 69 Aquifer Drilling & Testing, Inc .......................... Inside Front Cover Arcadis ...................................................................................... 19 Atlantic Screen & Mfg. Inc ......................................................... 54 Boart Longyear .......................................................................... 64 Boyd Artesian Well Co., Inc ....................................................... 52 Brinkerhoff Environmental Services, Inc .................................. 32 CSG Environmental Consultants............................................... 36 Church, Stephen B., Co ............................................................ 73 Clearwater Drilling, Inc. ............................................................. 38 Clough, Harbour & Associates .................................................. 67 Complete Environmental Testing, Inc. ...................................... 67 ConeTec, Inc ......................................................... Centerfold (45) Connecticut Test Borings, LLC .................................................. 67 Conrad Geoscience Corporation ............................................... 32 Delta Well & Pump, Inc ............................................................... 6 Directional Technologies, Inc ............................... Centerfold (44) Diversified Geophysics, Inc .............................. Inside Rear Cover Drilex Environmental, Inc ............................................................ 3 Earth Data Northeast, Inc ................................. Inside Rear Cover Eastern Analytical, Inc ............................................................... 20 EcoTest Labs,Inc ...................................................................... 52 EnviRent .................................................................................... 47 Environmental Assessment & Remediations ............................ 52 Environmental Closures, Inc ................................ Centerfold (45) Enviroscan ................................................................................. 30 EWMA ................................................................... Centerfold (47) Expedition Drilling, Inc ............................................................... 16 Gannett Fleming ........................................................................ 24 General Borings, Inc ................................................................. 38 Geo-Cleanse International, Inc. ................................................ 13 GEOD Corporation .................................................................... 14 Geomatrix Consultants .............................................................. 54 Geophysical Applications, Inc ............................... Centerfold (43) GEOSPHERE Environmental Management, Inc. ..................... 74 Hager Geoscience, Inc .............................................................. 23 Hager-Richter GeoScience, Inc ................................................ 58 Haley & Aldrich .......................................................................... 34 Hatch Mott MacDonald .............................................................. 62

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Hetager Drilling, Inc. ................................................................. 21 Jonathan Paul Associates, Inc. ................................................... 9 JPI Associates, Inc. ................................................................... 21 Layne Christensen Company .................................................... 77 Leggette, Brashears & Graham, Inc. ............ Outside Rear Cover Lincoln Applied Geology, Inc. ................................................... 57 McLane Environmental, LLC ..................................................... 20 MC Environmental, LLC ............................................................ 53 Maine Test Borings. .................................................................. 54 Malcolm Pirnie .......................................................................... 81 Morris Industries, Inc. ................................................................ 18 NAEVA Geophysics, Inc. .......................................................... 61 New England Boring Contractors of CT., Inc. ........................... 24 Pennsylvania Drilling Company ................................................ 64 Probe Support Services ............................................................ 86 Pure Earth, Inc. ......................................................................... 32 Quality Inspection Services, Inc. ............................................... 17 Quantitative Hydrogeology, Inc ................................................. 81 R&L Well Drilling, LLC .............................................................. 34 Regenesis ................................................................................. 53 ReRem ...................................................................................... 77 Rich, C. A., Consultants, Inc ......................... Outside Rear Cover Rinbrand Well Drilling Co., Inc. ................................................. 69 Roux Associates, Inc ................................................................ 11 SGS Environmental Services, Inc. ........................ Centerfold (42) SJB Services, Inc. ..................................................................... 36 Soil Mechanics ...................................................... Centerfold (41) Soiltesting, Inc ........................................................................... 58 StoneHill Environmental, Inc ..................................................... 23 Stothoff, Samuel, Company, Inc ............................................... 64 Summit Drilling Co., Inc ............................................................ 66 TAM International...................................................................... 81 Terracon .................................................................................... 70 Thermal Remediation Services, Inc ......................... Centerfold 46 TRC Environmental Corporation. .............................................. 16 URS Corporation......................................................................... 9 Zebra Environmental .........................................Centerfold 48, 72

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FRIENDS OF THE FUND ($1,000+) AQUIFER DRILLING AND TESTING, INC. BANINO, GEORGE LEGGETTE, BRASHEARS & GRAHAM, INC. MILLER, DAVID W. NE-AIPG REXRODE, H. LEONARD , JR. ROUX ASSOCIATES ROUX, PAUL H. SLAYBACK, RUSSELL G. VALKENBURG, NICHOLAS YOUNG, RICHARD H. BENEFACTORS ($500+) BLAUVELT, ROBERT P. EMERSON, MARK HERRICK, DEAN H. HIGGINS, JONATHAN B. (IN MEMORY OF LEO HALL) KASABACH, HAIG F. KAYLER, KYLE STONE, TIMOTHY S. PATRONS ($250+) AIRMAG SURVEYS, INC. ANONYMOUS BRINCKERHOFF, LAURA (IN HONOR OF FRANK MCCARTHY) BURKE, MICHAEL CHAMBERLAIN, JOHN MARK DIMMICK, CHARLES WM. GRAFF, CAROL S. GAVRAS, JOHN M. HARRINGTON, JONATHAN HIGGINS, JONATHAN B. KLEIMAN, AMY MCGRATH, DENNIS Nova Consulting & Engineering RICH, CHARLES A. RICHTER, DOROTHY ROSENFELD, MORDECAI SCHIFFMAN, ARNOLD SOILTESTING, INC. SPONSORS ($125+) ALLEN, BOYD, III ALPHA GEOSCIENCE DE ANGELIS, JAMES ERM-NORTHEAST

GRAHAM, JACK B. GREENMAN, MIKE HINCE, ERIC KOCH, ELLIS KRAEMER, CURTIS A. MASLANSKY, STEVEN P. MATHEZ, MURIEL PIERIBONI, JOHN PREHODA, BILL SCHECHNER, CLAIRE AND LOUIS SHOPE, STEVEN B. STANDISH, RICHARD STEWART, ROBERT A. TSACOYANNIS, NICHOLAS URBAN-MEAD, RUSSELL B. WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC. (MATCHING GIFT ON BEHALF OF GEORGE BANINO)

CONTRIBUTORS ($50+) ARGUDEN, A. TEFVIK Barish, James M. BECKER, ARTHUR E. BELL, DAVID L. BELT, EDWARD S. BUGH, JAMES CLEMENS, ROBERT H. DAVIS, R. LAURENCE ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE, INC. (ON BE HALF OF JOSEPH TORLUCCI) FAKUNDINY, ROBERT GALLAGHER, EVELYN A. HANLON, KERRY HEINDEL, CRAIG HERMAN KARPEL MEMORIAL FOUND. (ON BEHALF OF FRIENDS OF RHODA TAGLIACOZZO) HIXON, RICHARD HNOTTAVANGE-TELLEN, KEN Hoogerhyde, Kevin HOUSMAN, JOHN J. , JR. Jonathan Paul Associates, Inc. KACZOR, SOFIA KETANI, RALPH Mase, David MOZER, ROBERT PENN, WILLIAM E. RICE, JOHN RHYNER, JOHN ROSS, LOREN RYAN, MICHAEL J. SCHEUING, LAURIE (ATMGS Contributors continued on page 85)

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CONTRIBUTORS ($50+) SCOTT, DAVID Sillman, Robert and Roberta STOKES, KURTIS W. SPARROW, LESLIE ST. GERMAIN, DANIEL STONEHILL ENVIRONMENTAL, INC. TATLOCK, DEREK TIMMONS, ROBERT TORLUCCI, JOSEPH TYERS, GEORGE WARING, ANDREW D. WENZ, KENNETH P. WERLE, CRAIG WEST, William T. WOHLFORD, THOMAS

DONORS (UP TO $50) BRADLEY, MARGARET BUSA, MARK D. COX, PETER FALDETTA, SARAH FOURNIER, LEROY GANNETT FLEMING, INC. FREDERICK, WILLIAM T.

HARWOOD, DAVID G. HAGER, JUTTA HERGERT, DAVID KING, DANIEL KOWALSKI, RICHARD G. MAHIER, LUKE SASS, DANIEL B. (IN HONOR OF K. E. CASTER) SHAKTI ASSOCIATES SKEHAN, JAMES SUSCA, MICHAEL VOZZA, SCOTT WEINSTOCK, ERIC

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