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October General Meeting
What's With Calgary's Water System?
Speaker: Roy Brander, CUUG Life Member and retired Senior Infrastructure Engineer,
Calgary Water Resources
Roy Brander served as "Senior Infrastructure Engineer" for Calgary Water Resources from 1995 through 2015, working mainly on smaller distribution pipes for most of that period. His presentation will be assisted by advice and material from Alan Beairsto, who managed the operations staff at Water Treatment Plants through an even longer period, and Hugh Costello, who sized and designed much of the larger system of feedermains (those over 400mm), pump stations, and reservoirs that move water across the city from the plants.
How that larger system works in Calgary, feeding water evenly to the reservoirs serving over 20 separate pressure zones, will provide context for the problems that arose in Calgary when a particularly critical feedermain had to be withdrawn from service in June 2024, an outage lasting months. We will then present the much-discussed issues in the media, involving the choice of pipe materials, the inspection of large pipes, and the problems of repair, explaining with material from their careers, and developed by Lily Dupuis of CBC following interviews with Roy.
Roy Brander is a CUUG Life Member. He has given a number of presentations on a wide variety of subjects, including the BSDWall project, the MEPIS Linux distribution, the Titanic, management of Calgary's water mains, and the ASUS Eee PC and Moore's Law. Roy has retired from his position as the Senior Infrastructure Engineer for Water Resources, The City of Calgary, and now lives in a Vancouver condo overlooking Stanley Park. He'll be coming to us virtually from there, via Zoom.
707 Fifth
707 - 5 St. S.W.
Third floor conference room C
There is $3 parking after 16:00 one block south of the meeting location, at the Centennial Parkade (Lot 54).
5:30 PM, Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Snacks at 17:30. Meeting begins at 18:00.
Attendance is free for CUUG members, or $10 (cash only) at the door for non-CUUG members.
RSVP to office at CUUG if you plan to attend.
Christopher Aziz: CUUG Life Member
Christopher Aziz 1999
Christopher Aziz 2024
In recognition of his 25 years of dedicated volunteer service to CUUG, the Calgary Unix Users' Group is pleased to announce that Christopher Aziz has been named a CUUG Life Member.
Chris first joined CUUG's Board of Directors in 1998, immediately taking on the role of President. He has served as President a total of 11 times, more than any other person. Even when he was not on the Board (CUUG bylaws mandate a break after five consecutive years of service), he remained actively involved in the running of the organization. Our continued success is due in no small part to Chris's contributions.
Thank you, Chris, for all that you've done for CUUG!