AIPG Georgia Section

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AIPG Georgia Section

• What Has the Georgia Section Accomplished?
• 2003-2005

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Field Trips

• Cumberland Island
• Brunswick and Savannah
• Caving in NW Georgia and Tennessee
• Ocoee Gorge and Ducktown
• Waterfalls of Rabun County
• Granite quarries

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Cumberland Island
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Cumberland Island with Georgia Southern
University students
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Dr. Fred Rich from Georgia Southern
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Brunswick paper mill and groundwater issues
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Savannah community plannedwater well from the
Floridan aquifer
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Caving in NW Georgia and Tennessee
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Caving in Tennessee
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Caving in Tennessee
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Fault between Valley and Ridge and Blue Ridge
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Joint AL, GA, TN AIPG Ocoee Gorge
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Ducktown copper mining area
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Rabun County waterfall
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Rabun County Minnehaha
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Elbert County granite
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Oglethorpe County granite
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Atlanta Metro Site Visits

• Geotechnical cores for Atlanta tunnel project
• Roswell Road dual phase system
• Stone Mountain horizontal recovery wells
• Buford Highway - mobile treatment unit
• Surface geophysics demonstration

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Conventional cores for Atlanta tunnel
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Conventional cores for Atlanta tunnel
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Roswell Road remediation system
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Roswell Road remediation system
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Bill Murdy discussing remediation system
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Georgia State Universitystudents attended
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Trailer mounted dual-phase remediation
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Trailer mounted dual-phase remediation
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Surface geophysics with GSU students
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Continuing Education Classes

• Bioscreen classes
• Atlanta
• Savannah
• EPD Tradeport
• Consultants office
• Biochlor class
• In design phase - almost complete

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Bioscreen at GSU in Alpharetta
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Bioscreen in Savannah
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Bioscreen at Tradeport for EPD
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Interaction with Geology Students

• Georgia State University Chapter
• Student memberships Section gives one per
  university
• Career presentation
• Visits to six geology departments

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Georgia State University Chapter
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Luke Davis from Georgia Southern
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Dr. Bill Frazier and Shaun Lovelace from Columbus
State University
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Other activities

• Monitor proposed state laws through GAWP
• Cobb County groundwater use
• Georgia Geologic Survey activities
• Seminar on free product
• Attend Savannah Area Geological Society
• Sponsor Atlanta Geological Society meetings

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Display at Atlanta Geological Society