Topic: Trade Street Widening Project-Town of Matthews, North Carolina

Presenter: Mr. Ben Taylor, P.E.

Ben will be presenting the "Trade Street Widening Project" currently under construction for the Town of Matthews. This heavily congested corridor will benefit from added travel lanes, bike lanes, and sidewalks. The presentation will discuss the traffic planning, roadway design, and construction. The presentation will also include the future crossing of Four Mile Creek.

Ben Taylor has been a Project Manager for Kimley-Horn and Associates for over a decade. Before that, he worked at NYSDOT for 7 years. Throughout his career, Ben has led transportation-focused projects including roadway widenings, roadway re-alignments, intersection reconfigurations, interchange reconfigurations, bridge replacements, and greenway projects in NC, SC, and GA. He is a registered Professional Engineer in NC and GA.

Topic: Update on NCDOT Division 10 Projects
Presenter: Mr. J. Scott Cole, PE
Mr. Cole is acting Division Engineer for Division 10 of NCDOT, which includes all transportation operations within Anson, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Stanly and Union Counties. Mr. Cole is a graduate of NC State University, and has 26 years of professional experience with NCDOT. He has been a registered Professional Engineer in North Carolina since 1995, and enjoys outdoor sports in his free time.

Topic: City LYNX Gold Line – Phase 1 (formerly known as the Charlotte Streetcar)
Presenter: Ms. Tonia Wimberly, Senior Project Manager, City of Charlotte, E&PM

Additional meeting information can be found here.

Topic: First Ward Park and Master Plan.

This presentation will discuss the design and construction aspects of the First Ward Park that is currently being built adjacent to the UNC Charlotte Center City Building. Additional information about the First Ward Park can be found here.

Presenter: Mr. Jason Dolan, RLA

Mr. Dolan is a landscape architect for ColeJenest & Stone, and is the project manager in charge of developing a First Ward master plan, which included First Ward Park, for Levine Properties.

Topic: StormTank Module and StormTank Pack – A new and innovative subsurface storm water storage system.

Presenter: Mr. Dylan Faircloth

Mr. Faircloth is a regional sales manager for Brentwood Industries, headquartered in Reading, Pennsylvania. Mr. Faircloth is a Georgia native and graduate of Davidson College. He has spent the last 30 years of his professional career in the commercial real estate and construction industries, and currently resides in York, Pennsylvania. He is responsible for his company’s storm water products sales in Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas.

Topic: Coal Ash Leachability: Technical and Policy Considerations

Presenter:  Dr. John Daniels, P.E., Chair, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNC Charlotte

Dr. Daniels currently serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNC Charlotte. He also chairs the National Ash Management Advisory Board for Duke Energy.  While at UNC Charlotte, Dr. Daniels has led numerical, laboratory, and field-based projects for utilities and consultants, as well as state, national, and foreign agencies. Much of this work has focused on physical and chemical controls on soils and industrial byproducts, with a focus on coal fly ash. His laboratory participated in the validation testing as part of the approval process for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Method 1314, one of the latest methodologies for evaluating the leaching potential of coal fly ash. His work with organo-silanes to render soil and ash hydrophobic has been recognized as a potential method for reducing infiltration and leachability, as cited in the U.S. EPA’s proposed rule on Coal Combustion Residuals.

Thanks to everyone who made our Spring Clean-Up a success!

About 20 volunteers woke up bright and early to help keep our portion of Little Sugar Creek clean and beautiful.

Stay tuned for information about our next stream clean-up, which should be sometime in September or October.

Civil Engineers’ New Report Card Assesses Condition of Nation’s Infrastructure

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