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News & Notes
Vendors Expo: The GIPHCC Board of Directors is working on plans to change the Vendor Expo; thus, there will be no Vendor Expo this current year. We are researching a new date in 2014. Stay tuned for further details.
Thank you to Dann Holmes, NSF International, for his highly informative discussion on lead-free issues at the November meeting.
Housekeeping Issue:
Due to the timeliness of the November m eeting issue, the meeting was extremely well attended; we had 50 attendees. However, only 30 of them had pre-registered. Primo's normally anticipates a 10% walk-in rate. You can all do the math. 20 is far in excess of 3.
PLEASE, pre-register in the future; it's much easier for Primo's and for the person checking in attendees.
Yearly Charity Drive: This year's Toys for Tots donations were taken to the Marines by Dave Heffner. Thank you to all who contributed; we were able to send an entire huge donation box of toys. Our speaker also generously donated $45 to the cause.
For those of you who might wish to make a monetary donation as well, the address is United States Marine Corps, Toys for Tots/Indianapolis, 3010 N. White River Parkway E. Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46208.
Name Change: Capital Mechanical Services will change the name of the company to CH Mechanical, Inc., effective January 1, 2014.
Lead Free Plumbing Training Online Course
This online course was developed based on a presentation made by members of the Get the Lead Out Plumbing Consortium to provide education to industry stakeholders to promote understanding and compliance with the Reduction of Lead in Drinking Water Act, which goes into effect in January 2014.
The online course will cover 5 major topics about the new lead free law:
- the law and its background
- interpretation issues relevant to the law
- manufacturing issues surrounding the development of new lead free products
- installation considerations for properly installing new lead free products
- preparing for the implementation of the law
To take the free course and earn .1 CEUs please visit: http://www.iapmolearn.org/course/view.php?id=70.
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lunch meeting regarding the lead free brass law that is taking effect in just a few weeks was very informative. I'm sure everyone in attendance is now an expert on the new law and regulations. There seem to be many unknowns at this point--which is not uncommon with our bureaucracy.