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Note from the Editor
We are
up and running into 2013 and we are back on track with a regular
newsletter. You will now receive
two newsletters a year, as well as two President’s Communiques. If there is anything you think should
be included in our newsletter please let me know. Let’s hope that 2013 is a good and
successful year for all of us!
Lindi Richer
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President’s
Message
With the issue of this, the first newsletter of 2013, I’m
glad to see we are back on track to providing you with a bi-annual
newsletter. The first newsletter of the year is
scheduled for issue shortly after the SAIEG AGM and Gala Dinner as well
as the first council meeting for the year. This
issue also coincides with my first term as President of SAIEG. I’d like to thank our past president
for captaining the SAIEG ship over
the past two years. The seas were luckily not
too rough and I’m hoping the relatively calm weather prevails during my 2
year tenure as President. Thank you to those who
provided your vote of confidence in me. I’m
looking forward to the challenges which lie ahead and hope to live up to
the honourable reputations of the 14 past presidents of SAIEG.
Richard Puchner
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REMINDER
– SAIEG New Postal Address:
PO Box 1603
Houghton
2041
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Regional Report Backs
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Western Cape
There
are no major works requiring geotechnical input currently in the Western
Cape, apart from geotechnical investigations for proposed windfarms & solar farms at preliminary
level. Windfarms
are focused mainly in the Western Cape & Eastern Cape and solar farms
in the Northern Cape… Read
more
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Eastern Cape
Engineering
geologists in the Eastern Cape continue to soldier on in what are
relatively tough economic times. This though is
a large province with a need for infrastructure development and
maintenance… Read
more
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Limpopo
Is anyone interested in taking over from Fred as
Regional Representative of Limpopo Province? Please
contact the President of SAIEG.
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International News
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AEG
In
September last year Richard Puchner attended the AEG AGM as Chair of the
South Africa Section. It was held in Salt Lake
City, Utah… Read
more
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Shale Sinkhole
Sinkholes
are only expected to occur within the dolomites of the Chuniespoort Group. The
overlying Pretoria Group should under normal circumstances provide
protective cover. Especially in the case below
where it is 190m thick. On the 5th of
December 2012 a 25m deep sinkhole occurred in a storm water drainage
canal, astonishingly ingesting several metres of ferruginous shale of the
Timeball Hill Formation underlying the
residential establishment Hillshaven situated
on the Far West Rand… Read more
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 SAIEG AGM & Gala Dinner
SAIEG held the 29th AGM and Gala Dinner on the 1st
March. The event began with the
Annual General Meeting which included a message from the new President, a
financial review, reportbacks from the various
provinces and International societies.
The AGM was followed by the Gala Dinner and the Guest speaker was
Darrel Schmitz giving us Personal Perspective on Hurricane Katrina… Read more
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 Report back: SAIEG AEG Shlemon Specialty Conference
The first Shlemon specialty conference held in South Africa was
hosted in Sandton from 7-8 March and was
titled: Life After Mining: “Enviro-geotechnical” look at seismic, water,
and air pollution issues... Read
more
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Awards
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Gold Award
The SAIEG Gold Medal Award is SAIEG’s
premier award. It is given in recognition of
outstanding lifelong service by an individual to the profession of
Engineering and Environmental Geology in South Africa. The
award is given to a senior member of SAIEG, and in exceptional
circumstances, may be presented to a person who is not a member. This year we were pleased to award it to a
longstanding SAIEG member, Mr Isak Venter during the Gala Dinner on 1
March 2013.
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Student Awards & Sponsorships
Students nominated by Lecturers from TUKS and KZN and elected by
SAIEG council to receive a prize, will receive their price at the
university rather than the SAIEG Gala Dinner, since travelling to the
event may be a problem for some of the students. The intention is to hand
over the prize, which will comprise a book voucher, during the graduation
ceremony.
Still under discussion, it is proposed
that SAIEG will provide field trip sponsorship to TUKS
and KZN students. A
brief report back of the trip will then be prepared by the students and
published on in the newsletter and on our webpage.
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University News
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KZN
Another
academic year has commenced, with 14 Environmental & Engineering
Geology Honours students ensconced in Geological Sciences at UKZN having been selected from 38 applicants. These chosen ones are embarking on a
variety of Honours projects that will keep the “applied” geology
lecturers on their toes throughout the year... Read more
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Pretoria
The
Department of Geology at the University of Pretoria has been presenting
Hydrogeology as an option in the degree programme Environmental and
Engineering Geology for the past few years. Recently, however, the postgraduate
programmes were split into options of either Engineering Geology or
Hydrogeology, supplying graduates to both industries… Read more
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Electronic
Communication
The
website is continually being updated with current news and events,
although there may be some pages which go unnoticed for a while. If you spot anything outdated or out of the ordinary,
please contact the webmaster.
As
for other internet related communications, we’ve had a hiccup with the
SAIEG Facebook page and a new one had to be created. Please
just go back and “Re-Like” the SAIEG Page with the most recent activity
on it. Facebook
A
LinkedIn SAIEG Group has been created please go and join the group. SAIEG LinkedIn
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Condolences
We are deeply
saddened to have received news of
the recent passing of Fred Calitz’s wife. Our thoughts are with him during this difficult
time.
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Membership
We would like to welcome Sifiso Ngubelanga as Full Member to SAIEG, as well as the following Student
Members:
Dewald Kruger, Eduan Hattingh, Frans Bruwer, Micheal Van Rensburg, Keshan
Naidoo, Gareth Morris-Hale, Stephen Kelly, Dembe
Mudimeli, Zwelihle Gumede, Justice Nxumalo,
A number of new applications were
reviewed and provisionally approved by the SAIEG council. These are:
Tim Biggs (Full Member)
Hermanus Wessels (Full Member)
Khumbulani Zuma (Candidate Member)
Sharla Coetzee
(Candidate Member)
Christiaan Jooste (Student Member)
Existing members of SAIEG have two weeks to
lodge any objections regarding their suitability before they are accepted.
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Membership Application Forms
I’m not sure
if you remember when you first filled in your application form, or
perhaps you’ve recently assisted one of your new staff, but I’m sure you’ll
agree that they could be a bit more user-friendly. A
revamp is currently underway and we hope to have it finalized during the
first half of this year.
A student
membership form which we’d created in 2011 has been hugely successful in
putting students in touch with SAIEG right from the word go. These forms are provided to students at the
University road shows as well as through the lecturers.
Richard Puchner
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Forthcoming Events
As
mentioned during at the AGM, we will continue to run the Logging and soil
profiling course, as well as the Rock Identification course.
A Tony
Brink Memorial Lecture is planned for 2013 and we have a number of
potential evening talks lined up, with a trial run no charge to SAIEG
members. Details will be provided in due course.
A workshop covering the SANS 1936 document is on
the cards, as well as site visits to the Centrifuge at TUKS and Ekurhuleni Dolomite Risk Management.
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Contact Details
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President
Richard Puchner
Email:
president@saieg.co.za
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Membership
Robert Leyland
Email:
membership@saieg.co.za
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Website
Lindi Richer
Email:
webmaster@saieg.co.za
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Vice President
Greg Heath
Email:
vicepresident@saieg.co.za
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AEG Representative
Richard Puchner
Email: AEGrep@saieg.co.za
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Events
Amy Maharaj
Email: events@saieg.co.za
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Treasurer
Amy Maharaj
Email:
treasurer@saieg.co.za
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Newsletter
Lindi Richer
Email: editor@saieg.co.za
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Secretariat
RCA (Dianne Brooks & Yolandé Oosthuizen)
Email: accounts@saieg.co.za
Email: secretariat@saieg.co.za
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CORPORATE
SPONSORS OF SAIEG 2013
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