Burrowing Beneath Bangkok
The $2.9 billion Bangkok subway project faces several daunting obstacles�soft soils, a high water table and Thailand's current economic upheaval. The Blue Line subway system...
Rock Dam Revitalization
Sometimes restoring an area to a natural appearance requires a little artificial help. When the city of Longmont, Colo., began creating the St. Vrain Greenway, a park and recreation area...
Ocean Wave Measurement and Analysis
This proceedings,
Water Resources and the Urban Environment
This proceedings,
Water Resources and the Urban Environment-98
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Paper Mill Sludge Landfill Cover Construction
A considerable amount of experience has been acquired from a number of completed paper mill sludge landfill covers within the United States. This paper focuses on practical guidelines...
Tire Shreds as Lightweight Fill for Embankments and Retaining Walls
Use of tire shreds in three highway projects is described. In the first project, tire shreds were used as a compressible inclusion to reduce pressures on a rigid frame bridge. Earth pressures...
Using Waste Foundry Sand for Hydraulic Barriers
Green sand is a mixture of uniformly graded fine silica sand, bentonite, and organic binders that is used to make molds for castings in gray-iron foundries. Large quantities of waste green...
Estuarine and Coastal Modeling
This volume contains the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling held in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, October 22-24, 1997. The conference included...
Higher Ground
Thirty floods over the course of a century, capped by three major floods in 1993, finally convinced residents of Pattonsburg, Mo., that it was time to move the entire town to higher ground....
Efficiency in the Bag
Heavy snowfalls made the existing water treatment plant at the Lassen Volcanic National Park in northern California inaccessible during winter months. As activity in the park during colder...
Alternative Landfill Covers Pass the Test
Researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., are conducting a large-scale field demonstration comparing final landfill cover designs in arid and semi-arid regions....
The Membrane Treatment
Innovations in the design and use of pressure-driven membranes can help municipalities reach stringent drinking water quality standards. Although membrane processes have been used successfully...
Long-Term Effects of Suspended Solids Loads on Constructed Wetland Performance
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After the Rain Has Fallen
Ground Water Management Symposium
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Sustainability Criteria for Water Resource Systems
This committee report,
Water Resources Engineering '98
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Application of Geotechnical Principles in Pavement Engineering
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Design of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants
This revised manual, updated from the previous edition, aims to be the principal reference of contemporary practice for the design of municipal wastewater treatment plants. The manual...
Sludge's Re-Treat
The Shreveport, La., water treatment plant was losing up to 25% of the water it pumped into filter backwashing and sludge. Demopulos & Ferguson Associates (DFA), Shreveport, designed...
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