A 1990's Strategy for Combined Sewer Improvements
On June 22, 1990, the Regional Water Quality Control Board issued the City of Sacramento a Cease and Desist Order. The Order required the City to examine the condition of, and flooding...
Total Quality Management
Total Quality Management (TQM) is an organizational management approach that is receiving increasing attention in a wide variety of organizations, including the Ford Motor Company, General...
Getting the Job Done Creating the Lynn Water and Sewer Commission
The Lynn Water and Sewer Commission was created in 1982 to provide a means for the City of Lynn, Massachusetts, to improve the water and sewerage service to its residents. This paper describes...
What is a Drainage Utility?
A drainage utility is: a financing mechanism, providing a stable and dedicated funding source for surface water quality and quantity control; and a governmental entity whose mission is...
A Model for the Management of Groundwater and Surface Water Rights During Droughts
A more equitable management of basin water rights could be obtained if groundwater rights were allocated as a maximum rate of withdrawal and yearly amount of water determined as an equivalent...
Optimal Irrigation Planning for Drought Management in Lower Colorado River Basin
The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) of Texas recently completed a Drought Management Plan (DMP) for the water supplies under its control. In developing that plan, the LCRA evaluated...
Drought Contingency Plan for the Youghiogheny River Lake Basin
The purpose of this Drought Contingency Plan is to provide a basic reference for water management decisions and responses to a water shortage in the Youghiogheny River Basin induced by...
Totally RAD Urban Drought Management from California
The paper discusses some novel drought management measures which have arisen during the recent 4-year California drought. Many of these options are new ideas on the part of California...
Conceptual Model for Performance-Based Management of Regional Water Systems
The national shift in emphasis from top-down development plan orientation in water resources, wherein the federal government assumed the dominant role, to the shared partnership approach...
Eastern Water Law Development: Progress and Problems
Many eastern states have replaced common-law allocation systems with administrative permitting programs. These programs share some characteristics but also have significant differences...
The Law of Interbasin Water Transfers in the East
Interbasin transfers are becoming a vital source of water supply in the eastern United States. The current governing water law, the common law of riparian rights, does not address interbasin...
Application of GIS in Monitoring and Trouble Shooting of Water Distribution Systems
In this study, the suitability of Geographical Information System (GIS) to monitor water distribution systems is investigated. Although GIS applications are widespread, the use of GIS...
Political and Institutional Constraints on Water Resources Studies
Urban water resource planning studies are conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the request of a local sponsor, frequently in order to address a specific problem. The public...
Implementing Sacramento's NPDES Stormwater Permit
Between 1987 and 1990, EPA established the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit application requirements and deadlines for stormwater discharges. During this...
Dealing with Change in Water Supply Planning
The Seattle Water Department is facing significant resource management and development decisions during the coming twenty years and must address these issues in a rapidly and often dramatically...
When to Connect Your New Supply
The use of risk analysis is important to a water utility. The economic losses to the local economy as a result of water shortages can be astronomical. On the other hand, the high rates...
Water Supply Uncertainties with Federal Permitting
Providing water in a semiarid region has historically been one of the most important responsibilities of government. This task was made more difficult by the uncertainties involved with...
Uncertainties in Planning Inter-Agency Water Supply Transfers
San Francisco Water Department, facing a possible fifth year of drought, purchased surplus water from the Placer County Water Agency and arranged for wheeling of the water through State...
Urban Drainage Design Potpourri: Avoiding Pitfalls
In the process of mastering various methods or programs used to estimate storm runoff and flow rates, fundamental principles can be overlooked or even misunderstood. Discussed herein are...
Development of a Prioritization Tool for Multimedia Enforcement
This paper describes a decision support system developed for the Environmental Protection Agency that assists their staff in the prioritization of resources for the enforcement of multi-media...
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