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From: Mejia, Anthony
Sent: Monday, July 07,2014 10:40 AM
To: Kremke, Kate
Subject: FW: Laguna Lake Natural Reserve Conservation Plan
Agenda Correspondence for 07/15/14 u mU 0 7 2014
Anthony J. Mejia I City Clerk
City of San Luis Obispo
990 Palm Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
tel 1 805.781.7102
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From: Garrett J. Hall [mailto:Rihall@calpolv.eduj
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 7:43 AM
To: Ashbaugh, John; Carpenter, Dan; Christianson, Carlyn; Codron, Michael; Dietrick, Christine; Lichtig, Katie; Marx, Jan;
Smith, Kathy; Mejia, Anthony
Cc: Lizclarke621@aol.com
Subject: Laguna Lake Natural Reserve Conservation Plan
SLO City Council,
I am writing to express an appreciation of the wonderful resource that Laguna Lake has been for our engineering
teams at CalPoly. As a bit of background, each year the American Society of Civil Engineers hosts a competition that
challenges students to design, analyze, test, build, present, and race a concrete canoe. The competition has value in that
it is a difficult challenge and simultaneously encapsulates all of the elements of a real world engineering project: time
management, teamwork, budget constraints, and so on. The students compete against hundreds of engineering schools
across the US, Canada, and recently, China as well. The SLO community can be proud that CalPoly students have placed
in the top five nationally 9 times in the past nine years, and have won the national competition 3 times during that span.
Over this same time period of success, our students have been using Laguna Lake as a testing and training
facility with the kind support of the local community near Vista Del Lago. The students test new hull designs, gather data
obtained by instrumenting the performance of the hulls, and subsequently use the data to improve their designs. They
also train new students in various aspects of the competition during their time on lake. Beyond the technical aspects,
they also make lasting memories, great friendships, and have a good time at Laguna Lake.
We are very appreciative of the Laguna Lake natural resource and the community surrounding it, and fully
support efforts to restore, preserve, and protect the lake. On behalf of the CalPoly Engineering Teams past and present,
we thank you.
Garrett Hall, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor, College of Engineering
CalPoly, SLO