Intermountain Chapter Corrosion Symposium and Business Meeting

LOCATION: Central Utah Water Conservervancy District – BUilding 2 @ 1426 E. 750 N. | Orem, UT 84097

Date: June 4th, 2024

Time:8:00 AM

Agenda & Minutes:

8:00 to 9:00 AM – Sign in and Vendor Booths
9:00 to 9:30 – Intermountain Chapter Business Meeting

• INTRODUCTION (PETE)
• REVIEW MINUTES FROM PREVIOUS MEETING (WILL)
• BANK ACCOUNT (WILL): $5,911.81. Expenditures: $1,000 AMPP Scholarship & $1,000 Chapter Scholarship. Revenue: $1,203.12 vendor who contributed (Trenton, Mobiltex, Mesa, Dairyland, Gateway Company, Farwest Corrosion, and WBI Engineering)
• OFFICER RE-ELECTIONS (KEN)
  • Volunteers: Michael Cave (Michael.cave@blome.com) & Ryan Egbert (regbert@bowencollins.com)
• SCHOLARSHIP (PETE)
• Other Items:
  • Total attendee count: 76
  • Future meetings – send out round table questions prior to the meeting
  • SIEO will be in Bosie in January 2025

9:30 to 11 AM – Speakers

• Dominion Energy – Kristi Hoffmann
• Mobiltex – Don Olson

11 to 11:15 AM – Break
11:15 AM To 12 PM – Speakers

• Gateway Company – Thomas Nudd

12 to 12:45 PM – Lunch Provided BY INFINITY CORROSION GROUP
12:45 to 2:15 PM – Speakers

• Mesa Products – Charlie Poore
• Infinity Corrosion Group – Erik Lewellyn

2:15 to 2:30 PM - Break
2:30 to 3:30 PM - Round Table DIscussion
SCHOLARSHIP RAFFLE

• Ryan Egbert was the scholarship raffle winner

3:30 Adjournment

AMPP INTERMOUNTAIN SECTION

JUNE BUSINESS MEETING AND SYMPOSIUM AGENDA

Day & Time: June 13th, 2023, 9AM to 4PM

Locations: Central Utah Water Conservancy District - Building 2 1426 E. 750 N. Suit 400 Orem, UT 84097

8:00 to 9:00 Vendor Booths

9:00 – 9:40 Business Meeting

1. Introduction of meeting attendees (Pete)
2. Election of new officers (Pete)
3. SIEO is January 10-12
4. Review and approval previous meeting minutes (Will)
5. Review Chapter Funds (Will)
   1. Current Balance – $5707.91
   2. $3371.56 One Time Disbursement from Area funds
6. How to join the AMPP Intermountain Chapter (Will)
7. Group Discussion
8. AMPP Scholarship and Member Development
   1. How much, any requirements, and how to decide?
   2. $1,000 for each AMPP Scholarship and Member Development
   3. Scholarship winner will register and pay for the class and than the Intermountain section will reimburse.
   4. Names were put in a hat and drawn out by Pete. Ryan Egbert was the scholarship winner for the Intermountain Chapter.
9. SW WY UT CP Coordinating Committee, July 13th Online
   1. Talk to Kristi from DE to be added to the invite list.
10. Schedule of Future Summer Meetings
    1. Does June work best for everyone? Keep with the June meeting to avoid vacations in July and August
11. Next business meeting
    1. Will be with SIEO on Jan 10-12
12. Corrosion Topic for Future Meetings
    1. Central Area Conference Sep 11-13th

9:45 – 10:15 Speaker 1: Cody Nelson – Jacobs

10:15 – 11:00 Speaker 2: Tim Bechtel – Dairyland

11:10 – 12:00 Speaker 3: DC Interference Kent Carter – ICORR Technologies

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch Provided by Infinity Corrosion Group

1:00 – 4:00 Corrosion Questions - Round Table Discussions

2 Professional Development Hour (PDH) certificate is attached for those who attened.

Attendance: Please see attached attendance list.

Conducting Pete Gallus

Meeting was conducted in person at Central Utah Water Conservancy District in Orem, UT and Online via Zoom (https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86423193204?pwd=VGtYRG40ZVUxOFlZR0VmQ2RzOGVGdz09) on June 7th, 2022.

Vendor Booths and Lunch: Special thanks to Pete Gallus with Trenton Corporation and David Moss with RJM Precision for providing booth and Candy Balerio with Mesa Products for providing lunch.

Business Meeting

1. Review and approval previous meeting minutes (Will) Bank Balance $1,652.28
2. Introduction of meeting attendees
3. Plaque for Kelly Crystal (former Chairman)
4. Election of new officers
5. Group Discussion

• Fundraising Events: The Section discussed multiple events for fundraising, but for the interim decided not to pursue any.
• Corrosion Topic and survey for Future Meetings: The group discussed several ideas for future meeting topics. They included rectifier classes, specific operator trainings, water filtration, coatings, dealing with water after hydrostatic testing, etc. The section discussed options to include topics relative the water industry.
  • Will Garner will send out an online survey for specific topics at the next symposium/section meeting.
• AMPP Scholarship with specific requirements of engineering, science, corrosion, etc.: The group agreed that the scholarship needs to go to someone studying a corrosion related field.
  • Scholarship timeline will be as follows: June - Section decides if funding is available, August - AMPP Foundation asks if Section would like to award a scholarship, January - Scholarship Application due, Feb-May - Application reviewed and winner selected; June - Section decides if funding is available.
  • This year the section decided not to participate in a scholarship.
• SW WY UT CP Coordinating Committee, June 30 – Online
• Other Topics Discussed:
  • Section needs to keep a list of those in the section area that may not be members of AMPP and include them in future invitations for business meetings and symposiums. Additionally, those invited can forward the invitation to other potential attendees.
  • The section would like to hold more break out session and round tables.
• Next business meeting may be held in January depending on if Sun Valley decides to hold their meeting.

Special Thanks to out Speakers

Speaker 1: Surface Preparations for Pipe Coatings John Hill – Protection Engineering
Speaker 2: Corrosion Erik Llewellyn – Infinity Corrosion
Speaker 3: AC Mitigation Charlie Poore – MESA Products

2 Professional Development Hour (PDH) certificate is attached for those who attened.

Attendance: In person - Please see attached attendance list. Online: Robert Butner, John Hill, Kristi Hoffman, Richard Kiser, Dino Davis, Mike Hurley, Kelly Houston, and 1-801-889-9643

Conducting Pete Gallus

Meeting was conducted online via Zoom (https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83787881116?pwd=Qk1jVjlxTnVwSDFMcjliWFQxTFBOdz09).

• Reminder to update contact information in AMPP. Contact Will Garner for assistance if needed.
• Introduction of new board members
• Looking for a location for an in-person venue for next meeting. If you can host the next chapter meeting contact Pete Gallus
• Bank Balance has note change $1,652.28
• Review previous meeting minutes
• Presentation by Chad Wilding from Dominion Energy, "Circumferentially-Oriented Stress Corrosion Cracking & Data Integration"
• Presentation by Charlie Poore "Material Considerations for an Impressed Current Ground Bed"

1 Professional Development Hour (PDH) will be given to those that attended.

Attendence: Pete Gallus, Will Garner, Chad Wilding, Olan Nielson, Cal Larsen, Charlie Poore, Chris Noble, Chris Sumsion, Craig Campbell, Dan Rubio, Danny Morton, Darcy Mckmickel, Diego Scover, Erik Llewellyn, Jared Stradley, Jeremy Bybee, Jason Mcneil, Joe Fox, Keith Bates, Kelly Facer, Kelly Crystal, Kenneth Winn, Kristi Hoffman, Manzurul Nazim, Rachel Gaide, Richard Kiser, Robert Johnson, Robert Read Arnold, Sequoya Yates, Shane Prudhomme, Stewat Edeards, T Ralphs, T Barker, Zach Sharon, and Brandon Croy.