Safety Evaluation of PG&E Dams
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) owns and operates 71 hydroelectric power projects in Northern and Central California. With 115 dams in its system, PG&E is the largest...
Ghost Dam Safety Evaluation
Ghost Development, owned and operated by TransAlta Utilities, is near the eastern margin of the Rocky Mountain Foothills, approximately 33 km northwest of Calgary, Alberta. The development...
Case Study Safety Evaluation of the Existing Wise Powerhouse Penstock
A 70-year old riveted penstock was analyzed to determine its actual design strength in response to the discovery of significant pressure rises under normal operating conditions due to...
Public Safety through Cooperation
This paper describes the present FERC dam safety compliance program. The program's philosophy and history, organization, and key elements as well as accomplishments are presented...
This article discusses recent developments in enforcement by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ('Commission' or 'FERC') of its...
Overview of EPRI's Hydro Program
The near term objective of the Electric Power Research Institutes (EPRI) Hydro Program is to provide practical and easily used research results and industry guides in the areas of dam...
Jim Falls Hydro Redevelopment Project Construction
The Jim Falls Hydro Redevelopment Project consists of two 28.5 MW vertical Kaplan units in an enclosed powerhouse with an adjacent spillway. The spillway contains three radial gates, each...
The Construction of the Sidney A. Murray, Jr. Hydroelectric Power Plant
The project, consisting of eight 8.2m bulb turbines rated at 192MW, is located in the State of Louisiana and will use a portion of the water diverted from the Mississippi River to the...
The Use of Interior Guide Tube in Cross Flow Turbines
The Cross Flow Turbine has the distinct advantage of lower initial and operating costs over other small scale turbines, but it is believed to lack somewhat in efficiency. In this study...
Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project Turbine Design
This paper provides general information about this major hydroelectric project on the Parana River on the border between Argentina and Paraguay in South America. In addition, some specific...
Harnessing the Snake: A Construction Viewpoint
The Gem State Hydroelectric Project, five miles south of Idaho Falls, Idaho on the Snake River, consists of a 900-foot-long, 40-foot-high dam; approximately four miles of earthend dikes;...
Foundation Engineering
Current Principles and Practices
The proceedings of the 1989 ASCE Foundation Engineering Congress (entitled Foundation Engineering: Current Principles and Practices) address advances in the state-of-practice and in research...
Environmental Engineering
The 1989 Specialty Conference on Environmental Engineering was held in Austin, Texas on July 10-12, 1989 with cooperation from the University of Texas at Austin Civil Engineering Department...
Odors: The Other Effluent
Neighbors object to unpleasant odors emitted at wastewater treatment plants, and dealing with such odors requires tact as well as technology. The operators and engineers must listen to...
Water Beneath the City Streets
Urban groundwater control requires high levels of skill and experience but allows for only a small margin of error. Determining the best method for controlling groundwater requires knowing...
Training the Waste Watchers
Whether an engineer is going to work at a Superfund site himself, or if his firm will be doing cleanup work at the site, that engineer will want to take the 40 hour training course as...
Storing Sediment and Freeing Fish
When Mount St. Helens erupted in May 1980, it sent a river of pyroclastic ash and other debris into Washington's North Fork Toutle River Valley. The resulting debris pile...
Safer Dams
During the last 11 years, thousands earth dams have been inspected. Here are four that were rehabilitated. Army Corps inspections are phase I of the program, and have been completed. The...
Domed Renovations
Inside the granddaddy of domed stadiums, the Houston Astrodome, 10,000 new seats and 72 new suites were hung from a strengthened structure. Using a variety of working-with-what-we've-got...
Guidelines for Failure Investigation
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