Renewal Methods
This chapter presents an overview of different methods that can be used for culvert and storm sewer renewal. For each method, product main characteristics, method description, construction...
NewsBriefs: Researchers Follow Dust Storms Occurring at Sea (British Broadcasting Corporation)
Book Review: reWealth: Stake Your Claim in the $2 Trillion Redevelopment Trend That's Renewing the World, by Storm Cunningham. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
Extrapolation of Historical Storm Data for Estimating Design Wave Heights
Long-Term Wave Probabilities Based on Hindcasting of Severe Storms
The Levees Fail
This chapter examines the failure of levees against storm forces and the flooding that ensued....
Storm Clouds
Storm Clouds
Storm Clouds
In the Field: Open Road Tolling Project in Illinois Storms Ahead
Conclusions and Lessons Learned
This chapter contains concluding remarks on the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, emergency preparedness and response plans of the affected states, and structure performance against...
Effects of Prior Rainfall and Storm Variables on Curve Number Rainfall-Runoff
Storm-Water Management: The Convertible Tunnel: Malaysian Project to Double as Storm Drain
Light at the End of the Tunnel
As part of a comprehensive program to control combined sewer overflows in Richmond, Virginia, engineers designed a deep tunnel 5,900 feet long to store the polluted water during severe...
The Creeping Storm
During the past 40 years the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has spent nearly a billion dollars constructing a barrier around the low-lying city of New Orleans to protect it from hurricanes....
Book Review:
In Situ Behavior of Breakwaters in Constantza Port?Romania
In order to build breakwaters, especially in the areas with heavy storms, a special analysis on the several factors is necessary. In addition, surveillance of time behavior of breakwaters...
Capacity, Management, Operations and Maintenance (CMOM) Overview
Attendees will have a better understanding of the new policy and the benefits of compliance. The purpose of the CSO Rule or CMOM by EPA is creating a wave of activity across the country....
Shoring Up Coastal Engineering
Half of Americans live within 50 mi (80 km) of the coast, although it is becoming increasingly risky and expensive to do so. The importance of ports to the global economy coincides with...
Water Quality: Sampling during Storms Provides a More Accurate Pollution Picture
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