Unless you happen to be standing on a hilltop or swimming in the ocean right now, you are on a watershed. These unsung wonders of topography and hydrology are an important contributor to the rain cycle and yet we humans tend to abuse them.
"How Watersheds Work" 12 January 2017.
HowStuffWorks.com. <http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/watersheds.htm> 17 January 2017
The American Red Cross has an emergency need for blood and platelet donors to give now to address a severe winter blood shortage. Please make an appointment now to give blood or platelets using the Blood Donor App, by visiting redcrossblood.org or by calling 1-800-RED CROSS.
We are very proud of our own George Merkle, PE, who reached a donation total of 52 gallons today, and Dan Good, PE who is nearing 54 gallons!
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All of us at Maurer-Stutz join in saying thank you and we wish you a happy holiday and a great new year!
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Introduced by Eisenhower in the 1950s, the freeway system—90 percent of which was paid for by federal funding—may be the country’s greatest-ever gift to itself. While it generally follows standard procedures in terms of signage, routing, and numbering, there are points in the system where things get a little weird. (Via Atlas Obscura)
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Please join the Reinhardt Dairy for their Open House that will showcase four vms robotic installations within their four row, 250 cow, facility flush barn with guided traffic, led lighting and sand reclamation lane. The event will be held on Friday, December 9th, from 10am to 3pm 9306 Brickey Road, Red Bud, Illinois, 62278.
Maurer-Stutz designed the systems for waste collection, transfer, storage, treatment (sand and solids settling) and assisted/coordinated the state permitting process. We also performed the conceptual planning, comprehensive nutrient management plan (CNMP) and helped coordinate with the NRCS EQIP cost share including construction phase services for installation and checkout for the EQIP cost share.
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