The International Erosion Control Association’s worldwide membership has mobilized to aid U.S. victims of Hurricane Katrina by offering professional expertise and by donating equipment, supplies and o
September 12, 2005 (Press Release) --
The International Erosion Control Association’s (IECA) worldwide membership has mobilized to aid U.S. victims of Hurricane Katrina by offering professional expertise and by donating equipment, supplies and other resources. IECA’s members have skills that can be very helpful in natural disaster recovery and reconstruction; the association’s members gained experience in this work with the December 2004 tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean.
IECA is asking its individual members, consultants, manufacturers and suppliers to place offers of assistance into an online U.S. federal database that relief workers will use to match resources with needs. The National Emergency Resource Registry (NERR) at www.seern.gov includes specific categories for the services and materials that IECA’s membership can provide. After registering on the NERR site, IECA member information will be retained in a national database. In this way, the resources available through IECA will be made available for Hurricane Katrina restoration efforts, as well as any future national emergencies.
IECA officials met this week with over 55 other individual organizations under the leadership of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and The Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP) to coordinate their activities. They have also volunteered their member services to the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), which manages USDA Natural Disaster Emergency Watershed programs. IECA’s members are engineers, architects, geologists, erosion and sediment control specialists, consultants, contractors and equipment and materials manufacturers and suppliers who have the very skills needed in reconstruction efforts after a natural disaster.
“The outpouring of support for Katrina victims from IECA members has been overwhelming,” said IECA President Doug Wimble of Sydney, Australia. “From the moment the extent of the damage became apparent our International Headquarters has been inundated with calls offering support. We hope as an organization to be in a position to have our members assist when natural disasters occur anyplace in the world.”
For more information see the IECA website at www.ieca.org.
IECA is the authoritative resource for knowledge, information, and advocacy of worldwide erosion and sediment control information and education.
IECA is asking its individual members, consultants, manufacturers and suppliers to place offers of assistance into an online U.S. federal database that relief workers will use to match resources with needs. The National Emergency Resource Registry (NERR) at www.seern.gov includes specific categories for the services and materials that IECA’s membership can provide. After registering on the NERR site, IECA member information will be retained in a national database. In this way, the resources available through IECA will be made available for Hurricane Katrina restoration efforts, as well as any future national emergencies.
IECA officials met this week with over 55 other individual organizations under the leadership of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and The Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP) to coordinate their activities. They have also volunteered their member services to the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), which manages USDA Natural Disaster Emergency Watershed programs. IECA’s members are engineers, architects, geologists, erosion and sediment control specialists, consultants, contractors and equipment and materials manufacturers and suppliers who have the very skills needed in reconstruction efforts after a natural disaster.
“The outpouring of support for Katrina victims from IECA members has been overwhelming,” said IECA President Doug Wimble of Sydney, Australia. “From the moment the extent of the damage became apparent our International Headquarters has been inundated with calls offering support. We hope as an organization to be in a position to have our members assist when natural disasters occur anyplace in the world.”
For more information see the IECA website at www.ieca.org.
IECA is the authoritative resource for knowledge, information, and advocacy of worldwide erosion and sediment control information and education.
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