Program will focus on how to minimize risk of flooding in populated areas

DATE: March 22, 2004
CONTACT: B.J. Almond
PHONE: (713) 348-6770
EMAIL: balmond@rice.edu

PROGRAM
WILL FOCUS ON HOW TO MINIMIZE RISK OF FLOODING IN POPULATED AREAS

Last lecture in Rice University’s Texas Water Seminars Series will
be Tuesday night

How to effectively
minimize the risk of flooding in populated areas will be the focus of
the final program in the Texas Water Seminar Series, Flooding and Watershed
Management, at Rice University Tuesday night.

Philip Bedient,
the Herman Brown Professor of Engineering in Rice’s Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will deliver the keynote presentation.
Panelists will include Burton Johnson of Harris County Flood Control,
Kevin Shanley of the Bayou Preservation Association, Jim Thompson of
J.F. Thompson, Inc. and Charles Penland of Walter P. Moore & Associates.

The seminar,
which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. March 23
in McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall, on the Rice campus, 6100 Main St.

Rice University’s
Shell Center for Sustainability is hosting the final installment of
the series. The four-part Texas Water Seminars series explored issues
related to water supply, potable water quality, coastal and surface
water quality, and flood and watershed management. For more information
about the seminars, go to <http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~eesi/scs/TexasWater.htm>.

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