Sussex County welcomes Joe Wright as new assistant county engineer

Sussex County welcomes Joe Wright as new assistant county engineer

Sussex County government welcomes Joe Wright as its new assistant county engineer, a position that will support the county in the planning and management of major capital projects that include the ongoing airport runway extension, building renovations, parking lot improvements and sewer system expansions.

Wright comes to Sussex County with more than three decades of public service; he retired in May from the Delaware Department of Transportation, where he dedicated nearly 33 years of his career in a variety of capacities, including project engineer, project manager, assistant director of various programs, Sussex County district engineer and statewide director of Maintenance & Operations.

Wright has already taken on a number of duties since joining the county June 10. In addition to overseeing four project engineers who manage ongoing projects, he will be responsible for assisting county engineer Michael Izzo and other staff with consultant selection, negotiation and management, as well as the review and update of standards and specifications for numerous future projects.

A graduate of the University of Delaware, Wright holds a bachelor s degree in civil engineering and is a registered professional engineer in Delaware. He resides in Lewes with his wife and two children.

After launching the electronic fund management system (eFMS) in all the districts in November last year for timely payment of wages to the labourers under MGNREGS, the State Government is planning to use SMS (short message service) to alert the beneficiaries about credit of their wages into their accounts.

The Panchayati Raj Department has asked the district collectors to ensure entry of mobile numbers of the MGNREGS workers in the NAREGASoft, a software developed exclusively by the National Informatics Centre for online credit of wages into the account of the wage earners. You are requested to ensure that mobile numbers of MGNREGS workers are registered in the bank where their accounts are being maintained so that the alert on credit of wages into their accounts can be sent through SMS, said Panchayati Raj Secretary DK Singh in a circular to the collectors. Singh requested the Collectors to do the job in mission mode to enable the Department to launch the e-governance service for timely payment to the workers.Since the NAREGASoft has no scope to edit or update mobile numbers of the registered workers against their bank or postal accounts, Singh wrote to the Ministry of Rural Development to make necessary changes in the software for revising the mobile numbers and deleting the frozen accounts.

The objective of eFMS is timely payment of wages to labourers in a most transparent manner, official sources said.The broad objective of eFMS is to enable online fund transfer from a central fund positioned at the State Headquarters to block and panchayat levels. It would reduce the related file maintenance, correspondence and delays in the transfer of funds to the field level, the sources said.

The new system would also minimise the corrupt practices like diversion and parking of funds in other accounts and enable automatic generation of accounts at each level for each transaction thereby facilitating a better decision.Besides, drawing of funds was based on the actual need after the work execution as per the norms and the system would eliminate instances of forgery and fraudulent drawing of money through bank cheques, the sources said.

Crater Lake National Park plans to stay open by whatever means necessary as water shutoffs that have been drying up irrigated pasture for tens of thousands of cattle extend to the creek that serves as the park s sole source of drinking water, the park superintendent said Monday.

Superintendent Craig Ackerman told The Associated Press that if the water shut-off goes through, the park will stay open through the summer with an emergency conservation plan, which includes trucking in water, turning off campground showers and deploying 120 portable toilets. The park is also installing low-flow showers, faucets and toilets, regardless of whether the shut-off goes through.

Meanwhile, the Oregon Water Resources Commission on Monday approved an emergency six-month exemption for human consumption and watering livestock for the rivers that have come under regulation of newly approved water rights in recent weeks.

The combination of drought and state approval this year of water rights dating to time immemorial for the Klamath Tribes for fish conservation have required the department to shut off irrigators on the Sprague, Williamson and Wood rivers and their tributaries.

Specifics of how it would apply to the park remain uncertain until watermasters evaluate the situation in coming days, said Doug Woodcock, field services supervisor for the department.Ackerman said the conservation measures are being taken despite having 5 trillion gallons of the  cleanest drinking water on earth" sitting smack in the middle of the park.

 Our in-stream water right for the lake is to preserve the natural characteristics of the lake by leaving the water in it," he said.  Taking public water out of the lake would be in opposition to the purpose the park was created, as well as having a significant environmental impact."The potential for a water shut-off was previously reported by the Herald and News newspaper in Klamath Falls.

Crater Lake is Oregon s only national park and was created in May 1902 to protect the lake, the nation s deepest and clearest body of water. It formed in the caldera left after Mount Mazama erupted more than 7,000 years ago.Take control of your energy needs with parking sensor, the personal wind turbine that converts wind into clean.This year s snowfall of 29 feet at the park was 15 feet short of normal, contributing to low streamflows in the Klamath Basin. Late snowfalls that sometimes come in April and May never materialized.

Also this year, the state adopted the first system of water rights for the upper Klamath Basin. That gave the most senior water rights to the Klamath Tribes for fisheries conservation on rivers flowing through their former reservation lands. State watermasters have been shutting off irrigation diversions for ranches with junior water rights to meet the flows due the tribes.

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