Financing of Urban Water Resources
This paper begins by examining recent trends in financing urban water resource systems and sets them in the broader contexts of local government finance and concerns about financing the...
Application of Social Science Research Products in Urban Water Resources Planning
Phoenix was spurred to action in 1981 because of the projected depletion of one of its surface water supplies by the summer of 1982. In addressing the projected near-term crisis, it quickly...
The Development of Metropolitan Water Markets: Seattle, Washington 1887-1987
This paper applies the case-study approach to examine the development of metropolitan water markets and its implications for central city and suburban water districts. The greater Seattle,...
A Lawyer's View of Engineers' Responsibility
When presented with a case involving damaged property, a lawyer typically will seek to determine the point of the failure and then work backwards in an effort to analyze each of the factors...
Litigation Support Investigations Involving Complex Flood Plains
This paper presents the case history of a devastating flood that occurred in a community located on a complex flood plain adjacent to a tidally influenced bay. Flooding resulted from cumulative...
Task Committee Activities on Microcomputer Software in Urban Hydrology
This Task Committee of the Surface Water Hydrology Committee has been established with the primary objective of developing an inventory of presently available software and to recommend...
Federal Microcomputer Software for Urban Hydrology
The purpose of this paper is to describe the development, availability, and general use of selected urban hydrology microcomputer software developed by: U.S. Soil Conservation Service...
New Roads for the Micro
Using microcomputers loaded with database software and Fortran programming, engineers are gaining control of pavement maintenance. A number of factors, from urban sprawl to constricting...
Long-Term Effects of Urban Stormwater on Wetlands
In 1986 scientists and managers associated with local, state, and federal agencies that have wetland protection and stormwater management responsibilities in the region joined to consider...
America's Changing Demographics: Impacts on Transportation Requirements
Present and future demographic changes in the United States will significantly impact future transportation requirements. These changes include a redistribution of the nation's...
Future Challenges for the Municipal Engineer
This paper acknowledges the role of the municipal engineer as constantly evolving and with even more changes in the future. Factors influencing these changes are the federal deficit, the...
Highway Facility Planning for the 21st Century
This paper deals with the highway facility planning for the 21st century. Some of the forces that likely will influence transportation in the 21st Century are: the availability of energy,...
Western Consortium on Advanced Highway Technology
Establishment of a regional consortium of western states for purposes of defining long-term objectives and making common cause in the development of advanced highway technology was undertaken...
Artificial Recharge and Conjunctive Use Management?North Central Coastal Basins of California
Traditional water supplies supporting central California coastal agriculture are derived from the underflow in alluvial stream beds. Such supplies have been adequate in the past but are...
The Canadian Experience with Coastal Zone Management
The concept of coastal zone management (CZM) emerged in Canada as a recognizable entity over 15 years ago. Today, the original goal of a national CZM program in Canada is generally considered...
A Coastal Zone Management Strategy for the Sultanate of Oman
As a further response to the pressures of development, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has contracted the International Union for Conservation of nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)...
The Regulation of Private Waterside Development
To implement their Coastal Zone Management and Local Waterfront Revitalization Plans, towns and villages in the State of New York have been encouraged by the State to develop Harbor Management...
Public Access and Waterfront Redevelopment?Making it Happen
Once an abandoned, industrial wasteland and now a recreational showcase, the Ruston Way waterfront is one of Tacoma's premiere attractions. The successful revitalization is...
Urban Waterfront Zoning: Using CZM Goals to Encourage Revitalization
New York City has historically been a major port and waterfront industrial city. With changes in freight shipping and industrial development, much of the waterfront is no longer needed...
Recreation Planning and Design for Floating Cities
The role and place of recreation planners and designers in multidisciplinary research for floating cities of the 21st Century and emerging marine recreation concepts and their relationship...
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