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
Discussion session summary....
After the Rain Has Fallen
Ground Water Management Symposium
This proceedings,
Sustainability Criteria for Water Resource Systems
This committee report,
Water Resources Engineering '98
This proceedings,
Sky High
The increasing demand for personal communication services (PCS), such as digital cell phones and pagers, as well as digital television (DTV), has created new challenges for creating and...
I.T.S. On the Way
With fewer roads being built, surface transportation engineers must develop ways to increase the efficiency of existing roadways by using intelligent transportation systems (ITS), but...
This Time With Feeling
Adaptive reuse has been a buzzword for sometime, but recently, changes in government and military operations and renewed interest in the revitalization of urban centers have pushed the...
Application of Geotechnical Principles in Pavement Engineering
This proceedings,
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...
Dealing with DNAPLs
Trichloroethylene (TCE) in groundwater is one of the most prevalent contamination problems at hazardous waste sites; a problem that is substantially greater if the TCE is present as dense...
Wetland Wonder
Pinellas County and the Southwest Florida Water Management District's Surface Water Improvement and Management (SWIM) Department jointly retrofitted an urban drainage basin...
Cementing the Future
One of the most devastating effects of the Loma Prieta Earthquake that rocked northern California on Oct. 17, 1989 was the collapse of the elevated Cypress Freeway (Interstate 880) in...
Expert Systems for Civil Engineers
Integration Issues
This monograph on integrated computer systems is one in a series of monographs published by the Expert Systems on Artificial Intelligence Committee of the ASCE Technical Council on Computer...
Public Water in Private Hands
The nation's water utilities are becoming a battleground for control between private companies that want a share of the market and public employees who are bidding for their...
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