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DECEMBER WINE TASTING AND DINNER MEETING
Reservations due to Robin Spencer at
rspencerchmm@home.com or call Robin at 925-254-2917 by 11/27/2001.
And, if you thought wine tasting was great, you're in for a GRAND experience when Mr. John Harrison, Official Taster of Dreyers' Grand Ice Cream (an Oakland original), takes the podium at 8 p.m. for the sweetest talk you've ever heard. Think you are a big ice cream eater? John has tasted over 180 MILLION gallons of ice cream! As a hazardous materials manager, you know that it takes technology to bring ice cream to your freezer. Bring your hazmat and energy questions for John to answer and check out his website at www.Dreyers.com.
We would like to take this opportunity to invite companies and individuals to sponsor a bottle of wine at $20. We will display your name at the table and thank you publicly in the next newsletter. Please indicate if you'd like to do this when you make your reservation.
NCC-ACHMM Annual Wine Tasting and Dinner
Speaker: Mr. John Harrison, Official Taster of Dreyers' Grand Ice Cream
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Date:Wednesday, December 5, 2001 |
Location: Oakland
Grill 3rd and Franklin Streets (301 Franklin) Oakland, 2 blocks from Jack London Square |
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6:00 p.m. Wine Tasting (SHARP) 7:00 p.m.: Dinner 8:00 p.m.: Ice Cream Presentation |
Price:
$26 (add $2 for no RSVP); Dinner Selections (choose one).
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October Meeting Highlights
THANK YOU TO WINE SPONSORS AT THE OCTOBER MEETING
To cap off a spectacular program at the Presidio last month (see summary in the next article), our Programs Chair, Jennifer Coats, invited attendees to bring a bottle of wine for the catered dinner in exchange for some marketing and publicity. What a success! The chapter warmly thanks you all. We think some companies and/or individuals may have been left off this list, and for this we sincerely apologize as we endeavor to improve our system of accounting. If you are not on this list, please let us know! Thanks now, to: ATC, Bechtel, Geo/Resource Consultants, NCC-ACHMM, Spencer Environmental, and Weiss Associates.
SUMMARY OF OCTOBER 17th, 2001 MEETING AT THE PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO
Tour of Environmental Programs at the Presidio
Synopsis prepared by Jim Breitlow/CHMM and NCC-ACHMM Secretary
Jennifer Coats, CHMM and NCC-ACHMM Program Chair, and several of her coworkers arranged a very interesting tour of the Presidio Trust's environmental programs at the Presidio of San Francisco. The tour elicited very high interest, with more than 40 members and non-members gathering for the tour and the dinner presentation that followed in the Log Cabin at the Presidio.
The U.S. Congress created the Presidio Trust with the mission of making the Presidio, formerly an Army base and now a unit of the National Park System, financially self-sustaining. At the same time, the Trust also has the formidable task of remediating contaminated sites and furthering the environmental objectives of a national park.
First stop on the tour was the site of the Letterman Complex, where the former Letterman Army Medical Center and the adjoining Letterman Army Institute of Research are being deconstructed to make way for the Letterman Digital Arts Center, the future home of Lucas Film's digital arts campus. The deconstruction so far had generated over 234 tons of salvageable materials (e.g., boilers, air conditioning units, and cabinetry), and over 1600 tons of recyclable metals. When deconstruction is completed, construction of the Digital Arts Center will begin in about a year.
The tour also included a presentation of the Trust's integrated pest management program at the golf course, where environmentally benign pest control methods and materials are tested and developed. The tour concluded with an exploration of Battery Howe-Wagner, which is one of the facilities maintained by the Trust for disaster preparedness.
Chris Nelson, the Trust's Environmental Remediation Manager, gave the dinner presentation on the stakeholder issues involved in the remediation of contaminated sites. In an agreement with the Army, the Trust is receiving $100 million to finance the cleanup. The Trust also has a $100 million insurance policy to cover any cleanup cost overruns and to provide cleanup funding for any previously unknown environmental conditions. Several stakeholders have an interest in the remediation. The principally involved regulatory agencies are the National Park Service, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, and the Regional Water Quality Control Board. Also involved are the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers (primarily on wetlands issues), and the City and County of San Francisco (focusing on hazardous materials and hazardous waste management, and the remediation of underground storage tank sites). The Presidio has an active Restoration Advisory Board, representing the public at large and providing feedback from neighborhood and civic groups, to review the scores of documents prepared in conjunction with conducting the remediation.
The NCC-ACHMM sincerely appreciates the time and effort that Jennifer and the many other Trust representatives invested in this very successful event.
September 2001 Board Meeting Minutes
Click here to review the NCC-ACHMM Board Meeting
Minutes prepared by Jim Brietlow.
Our February Dinner Meeting was Tech Night! The latest on interactive databases for the Hazardous Materials and Safety Industries was presented with hands-on demonstrations. For highlights, please see our February Highlights page.
Available at our meetings: An important reference book: "Hazardous Materials Management Desk Reference". Published by McGraw Hill for the Academy of Hazardous Materials Managers. The copies will only be available to the meeting attendees at this time. Contact Georgina Dannatt for details gdannatt@juno.com.
Read Highlights of 2000 ACHMM Annual Convention developed by Barney Popkin, Vice President, NCC-ACHMM. [Highlights of 2000 National Convention]
See the article by Barney Popkin on the Hunters Point Shipyard Metals Loading published in a prior issue of the Newsletter.
2002 NCC-ACHMM Officers and Contacts: