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    Salary level

    I would say it depends where you are at. If you were willing to put up with what goes on in the oil fields you can probably make a pretty good living. Then you will also have to deal with the ups and downs in the oil prices. Check out craigslist in Midland/Odessa TX. They have positions...
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    Off-site Lake for detention

    My situation at the time was discharging into TVA's lake system which had dams to control flooding situations and TVA owned the land up to a certain storm event elevation. So they were considerably larger than 2.5 acres and landowner issues didn't really exist. I think it would still be...
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    Off-site Lake for detention

    It has been a while since I have done this but the municipality where I once worked had approved the methodology several years ago, things may have changed. Determine the watershed limits for the lake and then determine the time of concentration for the entire watershed hydrograph. You can...
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    Tennessee Professional Privilege Tax

    You can avoid paying the tax by submitting your inactive status paperwork. It is what I did. I was no longer living/working in TN so not using the license. You would probably want to pay the yearly renewal fee which is cheaper than the tax. It was originally my home state though and where I...
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    Equipment for detecting underground utilities

    I work in the electrical utility industry at the moment and perform a lot on 811 calls or "one calls". Typically each utility or pipeline owner will mark the approximate location of all utilities using the type of utility locator I mentioned above for information purposes only These locations...
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    Equipment for detecting underground utilities

    If the utility in question has a tracer wire, other means of passing an electric current through it, or is an electric line that is how most 811 "one call" locators locate their respective utilities. Locating depth can be tricky as the 811 guys will tell you there is no guarantee that the...
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    construction industry career advice

    Those 50 year olds have a lot of knowledge to share most likely. I've worked for Fluor and it was fun at the time. Unfortunately it was a very political type situation on an ARRA project during the lean years and they were a subcontractor gunning for a larger/longer stint as the prime...
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    Retaining Wall On Property Line Ontnio

    You also might need to verify that there is not already some form of easement such as a utility easement. It was typical in one larger city where I worked to have property within the city limits having a 5' utility easement on either side of all property lines. Building a wall in that easement...
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    no outlet velocity calculated

    So I am working on a detention pond checking 2-yr 24-hr, 5-yr 24-hr, 10-yr 24-hr and 100-yr 24-hr storm events. I am required to list exit velocities for each storm event. Unless things have changed when you are below 5 fps vegetation is adequate erosion control. I have not being doing this...
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    Submerged Storm Pipes

    Why don't you also lower the retention basin in addition to the storm sewer so that your storm sewer maintains minimum cover and stays above the normal water surface elevation? Maybe the elevation of your discharge point to the offsite area will not allow that? If your storm sewer pipes are...
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    Energy Dissipator

    I'd go with the HY-8 free computer software. Not nearly as fun as the design manuals it is intended to somewhat automate but much easier and quicker to use.
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    Using another engineers drawings

    I see, unfortunately I know not of the legal aspects personally. I know when the City Engineering Dept. began asking for these stamped as-built drawings the firm I worked for had questions about asking our engineer to certify/stamp basically a licensed surveyors work and who ever updated the...
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    Using another engineers drawings

    In a jurisdiction I previously worked in the City Engineering Dept. required stamped as-built drawings and calculations to certify that the plans would function as originally designed. Chances are things were not built exactly as designed. Those items would need to be adjusted to reflect that...
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    Using weighted Curve Numbers for Basin Routing

    For what ever reason the City in the Upper Midwest I am living in has an engineering firm who acts as a reviewer of drainage calculations and other things and they require that the weighted Q method is used. I have no idea why. I did some research to try an understand the method and located...
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    Considering transitioning from MEP consulting to utility

    REC = Rural Electric Cooperative. For a better definition of utility vs coop see link below https://www.saveonenergy.com/f-a-q/whats-the-difference-between-a-co-op-and-a-utility/
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