End basically were just trying to produce a good water product that doesnt negatively impact the receiving water so that we have recreation and no bad impact on fish and aquatic life. Solids is whats happening. By sludge, what exactly do you mean . Is that the actual technical term . Its a technical term and its used in a lot of different ways, but this is organic sewage sludge. Basically what it is is, oh, maybe things that come out of your garbage disposal, things that are fecal in nature. Its sludge left in the water after the primary treatment, then we blend those two over and send them over to digestion. This building is built to replace tanks here that were so odoriferous they would curl your hair. We built this as an interim process. Is there a coagulant introduced somewhere in the middle of this . This coagulant brings solids together and lets the water run through. That gives us more time in the digestion process, more time to reduce the amount of solids. These are the biggest
Our effectiveness at providing relief for our fellow citizens does require preparation. Vice admiral beeman spoke emphatickly of readiness yesterday. Readiness is no accident but is a deliberate outcome of focus and hard work. Dod is now stepping up to the plate in a very formal and direct way but this will only work as well as our local state and federal civil authorities partner with us to ensure our capabilities are known, understood and well planned into their responses. Well, i thank you for the opportunity to fill in for admiral roughhead. This new mission area thats coming our way i think in a more deliberate form is important to us. I have been a believer in it for years and i think what we are starting it see here in San Francisco is a model of how we can approach our ability to spert our fellow citizens. So thank you very much for the chance to speak to you and with that, sir, i open it up to questions. Is that right . applause . Okay, sir, were ready for the panel. Yeah, if
Really unbelievable. We availed ourselves of resources going forward. We had the same like any data set, you find great things about it. Then theres missing values or is thisxtion that got auto populated. We fixed a lot of things. We fixed a lot of gps coordinates. We would love the ability to post that back up. Even if youre not crowd sourcing new things, you can definitely crowd source quality of a data set that way. Yeah, its been a really great experience working with 100 plus and motion loft. Just to respond, i think that this is a whole new opportunity actually what youre talking about. In addition to reaching out to the private sector to generate more data sets as you just mentioned, theres also the opportunity to have better data sets from the work that youve done, scrubbing them and harmonizing them. I think there is also this really great opportunity to generate whole new types of data sets like motion loft is doing. And i think that this is going to present something kind of
Relationships at our bases and stations and the ability to roll out and assist is something you would expect to work out pretty well. Some of that has matured, in fact. In the state of california we have established a number of agreements, most particularly the wildfires where both third fleet and the Expeditionary Force assign helicopters in the need we are requested, its preplanned, our pilots are trained, we have the gary thats necessary and we can respond. Most of the things we have done in the past, though, have come on almost random occurrences in the event of a complex catastrophe, so that is a little bit different for us. There has been movement within dod and we have grown and matured certainly our presence in the fema regions has expanded, new capabilities have been delivered to the states, and we have developed the much more responsive and functional command structure, i believe, with the dual status commander and thats somebody who can Bridge National guard and active or fe
Welcome, shall, to the uss macon islands. My name is lewis loeven and im the executive director of the San Francisco fleet Week Association and what a great fleet week were going to have for 2012. Thank you. This is the second time weve had the uss macon islands and i want to thank captain pringle and his entire crew. What a great ship and what a great crew. They turned this swear hanger deck around all right night and turned it into a Conference Room and it looks absolutely beautiful. Thank you, captain, and your entire crew. Im going to make this short because were already running a little bit behind schedule, but San Francisco fleet week for the third year is organized with i object credible participation from city, civilian agencies from all around the region and all of us our fabulous United States military, the coast guard has been fabulous in providing assets to protect everybody out on the bay. It is one heck of a Logistics Program to get this whole program started and here we