Meeting Minutes - ASCE Surface Water Hydrology Committee
Sunday, May 20, 2001; 9:00 AM to 12:00 pm
Rosen Plaza Hotel, Orlando, Florida

Chair Paul DeBarry convened the meeting at 9:05 AM and welcomed all present. Attendance list was distributed.

I. Agenda review and approval

Agenda was approved as modified:

1. Awards discussion was moved to item IV to coincide with the visit of the EWRI Watershed Council representative

2. Bijay Panigrahi will represent the Watershed Council in place of Wayne Huber

II. Minutes from Minneapolis meeting were approved

III. Administrative matters

1. Meetings:

EWRI will have a Congress annually beginning in 2003. In lieu of a Congress in 2002, several specialty conferences will be held. Candidate meetings for the annual SWHC meeting include

a. May 2002 in Roanoke, VA NEED DETAILS ON THESE MEETINGS

b. September 2002 in Portland, OR

Paul will raise the issue of committee meetings at the Council meeting Sunday afternoon and report back to the committee electronically after the conference.

All EWRI/ASCE-sponsored meetings can be viewed at the ASCE website, http://www.asce.org/conferences

2. Control members:

As of October 1, 2001, the SWHC Control members will be

Paul DeBarry, Ex-Chair (Industry)

Jose Salas, Chair (Academics)

Rollin Hotchkiss, Vice-Chair (Academics)

Robert Swain, Secretary (Government)

The following were proposed as unsupported control members

Jurgen Garbrecht (Government)

Randall Graham (Industry)

Rao Govindaraju (Academia)

Ananta Nath (Government)

3. Committee membership:

Paul will send membership list to everyone on the committee. He asks, "If you do not respond, you will be dropped from the committee." He will also ask for members' updated information.

4. Honorary members: we will nominate Arlen Feldman for honorary membership status within ASCE.

ACTION: An assignment needs to be made for preparing the submission materials.

5. Committee organizational procedures:

The EWRI handbook is on the website and includes all forms required for committee activities. LOOK UP WEB ADDRESS.

6. Issues to take to the EWRI Watershed Council: Paul will discuss next year's SWHC meeting venue.

7. Proposed SWHC web page:

Discussion centered on where the server for a website may be, who would initially make the site functional, and who would maintain it. Allen Hjemfelt volunteered to investigate putting the website on a University of Missouri server, and Rollin Hotchkiss volunteered to discuss placing the server on the EWRI website. The committee was told that EWRI will maintain Technical Committee websites as a service to its members. It was agreed that if EWRI would provide such a service on a timely basis, it would make it easier for subsequent committee members to have the website updated because it would not be associated with a member who was no longer serving on the Committee. Rollin and Allen will coordinate their efforts and report to Paul. It was agreed that the Vice Chair will assume the responsibility of making sure the website is updated and current. Proposed content includes:

a. membership rosters

b. meeting agendas and minutes

c. dates and deadlines appropriate to the Committee

d. links to Task Committees (TCs) and TC rosters, lists, and progress reports

IV. EWRI Watershed Council report: Bijay Panigrahi raised the following:

1. How can TCs better integrate activities across EWRI?

2. EWRI will provide two web-based services for technical activities:

a. web site maintenance and upload service

b. communications assistance - you will be able to communicate in a running stream of comments on any issues of importance and be able to send messages to members without maintaining local email lists.

3. EWRI would like to increase the number of awards made to its members. Non-named awards may be made during the year. Nominations may be made to the Council. Contact Jerry Anderson, EWRI awards representative, for more information (NEED JERRY'S CONTACT INFO HERE).

4. EWRI encourages the development of short courses and one-track specialty conferences within a Congress beginning in 2003.

5. EWRI measures "success" using activity levels of TCs and products.

6. Remaining budget requests for this FY (through September 30) due to Bijay by June 01.

7. FY 2002 requests should be made through Paul DeBarry by July 01. EWRI is changing the way budgets are allocated; TCs will not apparently receive an automatic budget but will be allocated funds according to requests and other criteria.

8. Awards:

The Watershed Council wants to know if the SWHC wants to continue being the ad-hoc awards committee for the Arid Lands and Ven Te Chow awards. Other Technical Committees are seeking input to these two awards. It was agreed that

a. Joe Van Mullen wil take over the Arid Lands Award from within the SWHC.

b. Anand Prakash will write a proposal to form a TC on the Ven Te Chow Award with representation from other Technical Committees. TC Chair will be proposed as member of SWHC.

The Watershed Council wants nomination packages for all nominees for both awards.

V. Review of 2001 SWHC activities:

Notes from individual TCs will be made available on the SWHC website once it is established.

1. Neural networks (Rao Govindaraju):

Finished

2. Hydrologic monitoring of wetlands (Ananta Nath):

Extension received through 2001; report due end of September. Wetlands Hydrology has been elevated to permanent Technical Committee status.

3. Mitigating hydrologic disasters (Shou-Shan Fan):

Committee will meet later in the week.

4. Remedial investigations at contaminated sites (Anand Prakash):

One session at Orlando; finish report in 2002.

5. Curve number hydrology (joint TC with Watershed Management, Pete Hawkins):

Allen Hjemfelt reported there were two sessions in the 2000 Ft. Collins meeting, and that most activity is from the Watershed Management technical committee.

6. Paleoflood hydrology (Robert Swain):

Several sessions were sponsored in Minneapolis; a monograph is about 50% finished

7. Statistical distributions in hydrology:

No proposal has been submitted

8. Evolution of hydrologic methods through computers (Randy Graham):

Seeking abstracts for future conferences; two sessions were held in Minneapolis. A mini-symposium is scheduled for the ASCE Annunal Convention in 2002.

9. Hydrologic education (Allen Hjemfelt):

This has been turned over to the Education and Research Council

10. Climate variations, changes, and water resources engineering (Jurgen Garbrecht):

Sessions are being held at Orlando; all TC activities may be viewed at the TC website http://www.grl.ars.usda.gov/tc.htm

11. Darcy Memorial congress on history of hydraulics (Glen Brown):

No report was available.

12. New ideas for TCs may be developed at any time.

Forms are available on the EWRI operations handbook website.

VI. New TC proposed by Fred Ogden on distributed hydrologic modeling:

The Committee encouraged the TC to publish their work as a follow-up to the GIS monograph just being made available now.

VII. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering report:

Editor Levent Kavvas reported good activity in the journal, which is now a bi-monthly publication instead of a quarterly publication. Statistics were distributed for review. There is a proposal being discussed, initiated by the Groundwater Committee, to begin a new journal devoted to groundwater issues. Discussion ensued; suggestions were given to Dr. Klavvas as he continues to interact with other Technical Committees. The sentiment of the SWHC was not to recommend another new journal.

III. New Business

1. Robert Swain reported on the Advisory Committee on Hydrology and the subcommittee on hydrology. They meet quarterly. The 17 members are mostly representatives from the federal government. Dr Glenn Austin is the NWS committee chair. There are four subcommittees. The hydrologic modeling subcommittee will be holding their 2nd Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling conference from July 28-Aug. 1, 2002, in Las Vegas, NV. (NOTE: BOB WILL FORWARD HIS NOTES TO ROLLIN FOR BETTER DOCUMENTATION IN THESE MINUTES).

2. The SWHC will consider sponsoring a symposium in the 20004 EWRI Congress to highlight TC activities.

The meeting was adjourned at 12:04 PM.

Rollin Hotchkiss, Secretary

Name - Phone - Email

Paul DeBarry 570-821-1994 x248 pdebarry@borton-lawson.com

Rollin Hotchkiss 509-335-1927 rhh@wsu.edu

Ananta Nath 941-597-1505 anath@sfwmd.gov

Bob Swain 303-445-2547 rswain@do.usbr.gov

Fred Ogden 860-486-2771 ogden@engr.uconn.edu

Pepe Salas 970-491-6057 jsalas@engr.colostate.edu

Randy Graham 402-399-4889 rgraham@hdrinc.com

Tom Seybert 570-675-9139 tas103@psu.edu

Anand Prakash 847-228-0707 anand_prakash@urscorp.com

Jagdish Virmani 301-228-7658 jvirmani@bechtel.com

Rafael Quimpo 412-624-9870 quimpo@engrng.pitt.edu

Jurgen Garbrecht 405-262-5291 garbrech@grl.ars.usda.gov

Linda Weiss 505-830-7901 lsweiss@usgs.gov

E Zia Hosseinipour 727-791-2375 zhosseinipour@tampabaywater.org

Bijay Panigrahi 407-851-5020 bpanigrahi@bpcgroup.cc

Krishna Krishnamurthy 407-836-7990 m.krishnamurthy@ocfl.net

Ashok Pandit 321-674-7151 apandit@fit.edu

Rao Govindaraju 765-496-3402 govind@ecn.purdue.edu

Rama A. r. Rao 765-494-2176 rao@ecn.purdue.edu

Allen Hjelmfelt 573-882-1142 hjelmfelt@missouri.edu

M. Levent Kavvas 530-753-9584 mlkavvas@ucdavis.edu

Michael Anderson 530-752-6670 mlanderson@ucdavis.edu