The Intern

Update

I have not posted in awile so I thought i'd give everybody an update of what i've been doing during my internship here at Johnosn County Wastewater. Currently I am working witht the permitting, and engineering department on various tasks. I am still doing light tabling and residential plan review, but have branched out and am learning about the commercial review side. I am also helping the permitting department with some databasing and other tasks. I have been busy here at JCW and am still enjoying the work I do.

Field Work

This past week I spent the days going out into the field with all of the inspectors and observing inspections around the county. I learned what different inspections required, and how different areas of the county see different types of inspections because of the growth in different areas. I learned a lot about the different companies that are in the area, and how some are easier to work with than others. Overall it was a great learning experience and I hope to get out more often. This Thursday will officially begin my internship during the school year. I will keep up to date as I begin new projects, learn new information, or just something exiting comes up. Keep Posted !

Update

I am still working with all of the new and re-submittal for residential sewer lines. I have continued to learn new information about the plans, and am becoming familiar with the tendencies of individual engineering firms. I was surprised how often the same people make the same mistakes over and over again.

New Project: Peak Flow Corrections

I have started a new project for Matt Bond that basically involves me going through a ton of sheets that were created after recording the flow of holding tanks within the JCW district and changing the gallons per tested time into gallons per day. This was done incorrectly previously, so I now have to go back and re-do all of the calculations. I made an excel program to make this process a lot faster. Here's a picture:

I should finish this project by the end of the day if all goes well and I don't get any weird sheets that require a lot more work I have not updated recently, so here's a re-cap of what I've been doing:

New Submittal, Residential Sewer Line Reviews
Residential Sewer Light Tabling
GPS Locating
Misc. Projects (Peak Flow Calc., Filing, Number Checks, Quick LT, etc...)

I am enjoying the work I'm doing here at JCW, and as school is right around the corner I look forward to a great school year working during my 5th and 6th hour for work release. From now on I will update either when I get a new project, a special event happens, or I just haven't updated in awhile. So keep posted for new information !

Day 23: Light Table and # Check

Today I finished all of my light tabling, # checking and any other assorted tasks I had been given for the week. I did a total of 6 plans on the light table, checked #'s on 2, and then updated my time sheet etc.

New Submittal # Check

Today I got 3 new plans to run the numbers on. I worked on them all day and got about 1 and a half done. I will finish the other 1.5 on Monday.

Day: 21 Light Table

We finally got the old light table back together and I had a stack of about 10 plans to do, so the rest of my day was pretty self explanatory. Lots and lots of light tabling.

Day 20: Light Tabling

5 new plans, ready to light table, and, no light table. We are currently in the process of getting a new light table and after taking apart the old one and half building the new one we found out that the new one is the wrong kind. SO today I worked on my blog and did a few other things while waiting for the old light table to get back together, which didn't happen today, so we'll see what happens tomorrow.

HOLIDAY

Our offices were closed for the 4th. Heck yes for the USA !

INFO: Blogging Links & Presentation File Download

http://lab188.com (Keith Krieger's Blog)

- If you search through the category's you can find the information, including all links to blogging sites, and information. Please give credit to Keith Krieger as he is a web "guru" in our community. We thank him for the presentation on blogs. It was an excellent source of information. Thanks !

JCW BLOG PRESENTATION

This is the presentation Ryan Metcalf, Greg Hardy and myself put together for the Johnson County Wastewater presentation. It is now available for download, and can be used and modified however you would like. Please credit our work if you plan to use this presentation, as we did spend quite a bit of time on it. Thanks !