Forensic Engineering
Learning from Failures
The activities and qualifications of the Forensic Engineer are summarized in the nine papers published in this book. Procedures for failure investigation are discussed along with failure...
In-House Training Programs
The papers in this book address timely subjects and issues on in-house training programs that are of particular interest to the civil engineering profession. The five papers presented...
Treating Sewage in One Tank
A sequencing batch reactor (SBR) was the answer to a sewage problem that was holding up community development in Poolesville, MD. Poolesville was one of the first municipalities in the...
How Do Technologists Fit In?
The ASCE Board of Direction is debating whether to admit to associate membership (lowest voting grade) four-year technology graduates on the same basis as BSCE graduates. Today, the latter...
From Micro to Supermicro
The Association of Central Oklahoma Governments found that simply replacing its microcomputers with supermicros wasn't enough to tackle large files of census tracts and other mapping data....
Hydroelectric Program for Development in Mexico
This work deals with the process at present followed in Mexico for the development of hydroelectric projects. Then, the participation of hydroelectricity in the electric sector is given...
Port Infrastructure Program in Mexico
In Mexico the policies, guidelines, goals and methodologies refering to transport, are the responsibility of the 'Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes'...
Effect of African Drought on Water Resource Management in Egypt
1980 marked the beginning of the worst drought to hit the Sahel and east Africa in 70 years. The consequences of the drought were compounded by inappropriate farming methods, bureaucratic...
Stormwater Management in Kansas
This paper evaluates the current stormwater management practices of Kansas cities. This evaluation is based on a survey of all Kansas cities with populations over 10,000. Issues examined...
Design Storms for Urban Drainage
The characteristics of design storms for urban drainage are reviewed. There are indications that, under certain conditions, design storms produce runoff simulation results which are equivalent...
Flood Control, Water Conservation, and Urban Change
Los Angeles County has one of the largest, most complex and effective systems of flood control and water conservation facilities in the United States. It includes 14 major dams, 125 debris...
Modeling to Generate Alternatives: A Review
Modeling to generate alternatives (MGA) is a species of multiobjective programming in which some relevant objectives and perhaps some constraints are deliberately left unquantified. The...
Integrating Policy Factors in Stream-Aquifer Models
One of the main issues appearing today in the field of water resources is the management of complex hydrologic systems consisting of surface streams and aquifers. The management problem...
Irrigation in Mexico
Mexico has a great historic tradition in the construction of works for irrigation; irrigated agriculture has been practiced since the pre-hispanic epoch. The development of hydro-agriculture...
Strategy for Ground Water Planning
Though the percentage of ground water development is only 40%, many areas of India are over developed, where water tables are falling rapidly, due to over pumping. In some areas the surface...
A 2-D Model for the Guaiba Estuary (Brazil)
On the northeastern edge of the Guaiba is Porto Alegre, with more than 1 million inhabitants. A navigation channel through the Guaiba Estuary and the Patos Lagoon links the city to the...
Organization Design of a Water Resources Institution
An overview of the field of organization design is presented along with a brief description of major macro-organization design theories. Utilizing this information, four water resources...
Continuous Modelling of Downstream River Erosion Caused by 40 Years of Urbanization
The US EPA Stormwater Management Model (SWMM3) was installed on an IBM-PC compatible network. The adapted program, known as PCSWMM3, and incorporating a simple algorithm for modelling...
Orleans Parish Drainage Improvements
A case study of the development of an urban drainage master plan for Orleans Parish, Louisiana is presented. The Parish, which occupies an area of approximately 98,000 acres, lies entirely...
North American Weather Modification Organizations
The objectives and purposes of most professional, technical and institutional organizations made up of people interested in weather modification as a tool in North American water resources...
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