U.S. ARMY ENGINEER WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION TO HOST REMR FIELD REVIEW GROUP MEETING The 1995 Field Review Group Meeting of the Repair, Evaluation, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation (REMR) Research Program will be held July 19-20, 1995, at the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS. Representatives from all Corps of Engineers districts and divisions are encouraged to attend. The general sessions will be open to the public. During the meeting, ongoing work units of the REMR Research Program will be reviewed, and new directions will be addressed. Progress made in new starts approved during the 1994 REMR Field Review Group Meeting will be reported. The primary purpose of the REMR Research Program is to develop technology aimed at adding service years to the nation's aging hydraulic infrastructure. Almost half of the Corps of Engineers' lock chambers along inland waterways will soon exceed their design service life. Program research has already yielded significant benefits to both the Corps and the private sector in cost savings and extension of serviceability of existing structures. Recent REMR projects have included development of Core-LocTM, an innovative armor unit for repairing coastal breakwaters and jetties; installation of precast concrete stay-in-place panels to rehabilitate the lock chamber at Troy Lock in New York; improved methods of de-icing lock walls; and guidelines for removing lead paint from hydraulic structures. In partial fulfillment of its technology transfer plan, the program provides for publication of The REMR Bulletin, an information exchange newsletter; supplements to The REMR Notebook, a compilation of technical notes and material data sheets; and technical reports that document REMR research. The REMR Materials Data Base offers on-line information about specific repair products, and a bibliography of REMR products is available on the Internet (http://www.wes.army.mil/cgi-bin/remr.wais.pl). For additional information about the REMR meeting or REMR-developed technology, call Lee Byrne, Technology Transfer Specialist, at (601) 634-2587 or write Director, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, ATTN: CEWES-SC-A/Lee Byrne, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199 (e-mail, byrnee@exl.wes.army.mil).

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