A Bench-Scale Study of Wastewater Aquaculture Using the Duckweed
A continuous flow bench scale reactor was used to evaluate nutrient removal and growth characteristics of the duckweed, Lemna minor. Such a system can further an understanding of the treatment...
Denver's Dual Utilization Sludge Management Plan
The Metropolitan Denver Sewage Disposal District No. 1 (District) has adopted a Dual Utilization approach to sludge management. This technique uses composting during periods of inclement...
Sludge Treatment Design Lands Innovative Funding
The design of sludge treatment facilities for the 10 mgd Ithaca, New York, wastewater treatment plant incorporates both proven technology in the form of gravity thickening and anaerobic...
Cultivation of Christmas Trees Using Reclaimed Municipal Wastewater
This investigation was initiated to identify benefits and limitations associated with application of reclaimed domestic wastewater to a crop of improved Virginia pine christmas trees....
Water Conserv II - Reclaimed Water for Citrus Irrigation
Water Conserv II is a water reuse project which will involve the use of highly treated wastewater (reclaimed water) for agricultural irrigation. It is anticipated that the project will...
Advanced Filtration Techniques for the Reclamation of Sewage Works Effluent
The central Florida region is currently developing a wastewater reclamation program that will eventually treat 50 MGD (189,300 m**3/d) of municipal wastewater for spray irrigation and...
Irrigation Scheduling with the Neutron Probe
In 1981, the Imperial Irrigation District in cooperation with the United States Bureau of Reclamation started a demonstration irrigation scheduling program on 15,000 acres (6,075 ha)....
Institutional Incentives and Disincentives for Water Recycling and Reuse in the United States
A complex set of legislative/regulatory, technological, water conservation, and economic factors operate to affect the degree of industrial wastewater reuse/recycle in the United States....
Development and Management of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District
This paper discusses and explains the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District. The purposes, accomplishments, operation and management, and financing of the District are mentioned....
Texas Hiplex Experimental Design
Research into rainfall enhancement in Texas expanded rapidly during the 1970's with the Texas HIPLEX program. More recently, the states of Texas and Oklahoma and the United...
Use of Drainage Control to Minimize Potential Detrimental Effects of Improved Drainage Systems
Improved drainage systems are necessary on many soils for sustained agricultural production. However, there are several drainage system designs which can be utilized to satisfy agricultural...
Progress in Controlling Subsidence in the Houston Area
The withdrawal of large quantities of groundwater in Harris and Galveston counties of Texas has resulted in a critical subsidence problem, especially in the low lying areas along the coast....
Streamflow Losses, Consequent Flow Through a Thick Unsaturated Zone, and Recharge to an Unconfined Aquifer
Two experiments were conducted in conjunction with a 23-day aquifer test made in south-central Arizona to determine (1) water loss from a natural channel and (2) flow through a 330-foot-thick...
Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor Complex 2020 Master Plan
The purpose of this plan is to identify and analyze alternatives for the Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor Complex for dredging deepwater channels and developing new land area that will serve...
The Role of Nonprofits in Coastal Conservation
The California State Coastal Conservancy's Nonprofit Organization Assistance Program is a unique vehicle through which private land trusts and other nonprofits have become...
The Conservancy Concept
During the last nine years in California, the only significant new initiatives in regional land use management have been the creation of Conservancies. With the creation of the Coastal...
Regional Waterfront Planning Without a Superagency: Can Existing Agencies Fill the Gap?
As far back as 1966, the Regional Plan Association saw the potential for mixed use development of underutilized and vacant land along New Jersey's Hudson River Waterfront....
Analysis of Odors from Polluted Bay Ecosystems
Facility effluents, runoff, sewage and manmade constituents entering bays and streams can provide a source of nutrients which can support the growth of odor producing benthic or planktonic...
Mangrove Swamps and Coastal Lagoons: Uses and Stressors
The physical setting and the multiple-use of the mangroves and coastal lagoons of Santa Catarina State in the south of Brazil was studied. Anthropogenic stressors interfering with the...
A Comprehensive Planning Approach for the Conservation of Coastal Resources at the Local Level
The recent rapid growth of New Hanover County in coastal North Carolina has created the classic dilemma of an environmentally attractive locality attempting to accommodate desirable growth...
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