POP: From the CA Chapter Director
We had a recent membership push for the California Chapter – and our Golden State Chapter has grown to over 260 members. If each member brings in just one more new member, just a click to join, we can have our membership represented with 500 members before the end of 2006. That’s my goal for [...]
NEWS: Expert sees Katrina-like risk in state
www.sacbee.com/303/story/44358.html Earthquakes, not hurricanes, could destroy levees built on unstable land, professor says. Raymond Seed, a professor of civil negineering at the University of California, Berkeley, calls it the most expensive inch of soil in the history of the world. Seed and a team of 37 engineers and hydrologists found that layer of soil beneath [...]
NEWS: Tempting fate: Are we next?
http://dwb.sacbee.com/content/news/projects/flooding/story/13790554p-14632249c.html IS SACRAMENTO NEXT? “In cities across the nation, rivers, streams, lakes, creeks and seas have made their sinister mark, inflicting damage and heartache when they flood. “There is, however, no major city in America more at risk of a catastrophic New Orleans-style flood than Sacramento.” Please copy and paste the URL noted above [...]
