Water Well Journal
Issue link: http://read.dmtmag.com/i/592194
There is enough concrete in Hoover Dam to build a two-lane highway from New York to San Francisco. Ed Butts, PE, CPI, in "The Wonder of Hoover Dam", page 60 "The heart and soul of the system is the loop well . . . It's an engineered structure that needs to be constructed as designed , which means you control the borehole. It's huge to get that in (the CSA-448 proposed standard for ground source heat pump systems)." John Pitz, CPI, in "Industry Newsline", page 14 November PUNCH LIST The December issue of Water Well Journal will focus on the state of the industry with articles on aquifer storage and recovery, what to do as crew members retire, and well development as it relates to water quality. " Working with people— it's more that than it is physical and putting the borehole in and installing the hand pump. That's really just the start of the whole process." David Powell, CWD/PI, in "Sustaining the Future", page 23 Workplaces that establish safety and health management systems can reduce their injury and illness costs by 20% to 40% . In today's business environment, these costs can be the difference between operating in the black and running in the red. Jerome E. Spear, CSP, CIH, in "A Team Approach to Injury and Illness Prevention", page 50 Some 2.78 million trillion gallons of groundwater, 30.1 percent of the world's freshwater, are estimated for the entire planet of Earth. in National Geographic, April 2010 "When you talk to somebody and you're confident, you give the customer a much higher level of confidence in your ability because that's really all they've got to go on." Jeffrey T. Williams, MGWC, CVCLD, in "Giving Back", page 46 84 November 2015 WWJ waterwelljournal.com