Resident Engineering Costs vs. Construction Costs for New York City Water Pollution Control Projects
This paper begins by describing the New York City fresh water system, water pollution control plants, and the development of capital programs. It then discusses contracting methods, construction...
Roller Compacted Concrete II
This volume includes the papers presented at the 1988 ASCE Specialty Conference on Roller Compacted Concrete. Included in the proceedings are experiences of roller compacted concrete dam...
Hydro Development on the Huallaga River in Peru
The proposed Chaglla Hydroelectric Project, is located on the Huallaga River in Central Peru, about 300 km north east of Lima. The available gross head of 870 m and regulated flow of 58...
Expansion of Three Plants on the Saranac River
The capacity of three cascading hydro power plants, owned and operated by New York State Electric and Gas Corporation on the Saranac River near Plattsburgh, was expanded by a total of...
Vilavilani Hydroelectric Project
There is an urgent need to solve the water and energy shortages in the Department of Tacna, on the coast of Southern Peru. The Vilavilani Hydroelectric Project could solve some of the...
Licensing a Hydroelectric Power Plant at Navajo Dam
A hydroelectric power plant at the base of Navajo Dam was envisioned by the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Indian Affairs to support the development of the Navajo Indian Irrigation...
Reservoir Regulation in the Monsoon Climate of Korea
An examination of reservoir regulation rules in light of uncertain estimates of river flow in the Han River Basin, Republic of Korea, shows that two strategies will improve total hydroelectric...
Repair of The Hinckley Dam Embankments
The New York Power Authority was licensed in 1982 to construct and operate a 9 Mw hydroelectric facility at the existing Hinckley Dam near Utica, New York. Soil exploration programs undertaken...
New Martinsville Hydroelectric Project
The 34MW New Martinsville Hydroelectric Project is presently under construction in West Virginia. Located at Hannibal Locks and Dam near river mile 126 downstream from Pittsburgh, PA,...
OK Menga Hydroelectric Project, Papua New Guinea
The Ok Menga project, currently under construction, consists of a run-of-river intake underground concrete and steel lined power conduit surface powerhouse with two 25 MW units and a 132...
Potential for Upgrading the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant
This paper summarizes the feasibility of increasing the generating capacity of the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant by replacing the turbine runners, upgrading the generators, and replacing...
Hydropower Development at North Hartland Lake, Vermont
The purpose of this paper is to give a short history of the first hydropower development by non-Federal interests at a Corps of Engineers flood control dam and reservoir within the jurisdiction...
Small Hydrodevelopment: An Owners Perspective?El Vado, New Mexico Hydroelectric Project
The construction of the El Vado Hydroelectric Project posed several unique problems. The joint ownership of the dam between a Federal and State agency was unique to the region. The proposal...
Pyrites Hydroelectric Project, Canton, New York
This paper describes the Pyrites Hydroelectric Project in Canton, New York, an 8-MW project completed in December 1985. The key to its successful development was a team approach that included...
Grout Supports Brooklyn Tunneling
At the Red Hook project in Brooklyn, microfine cement grout was injected from the surface to support underground tunneling. The hand-dug tunnel was built to connect to sewer pipes. Subsurface...
Saco Dam?South America's First RCC Dam
Because of cost and a lack of suitable embankment materials, Saco Dam at Nova Olinda in Paraiba, Brazil, was redesigned and built with lean roller compacted concrete (RCC). The structure...
Roller Compacted Concrete Design for Urugua-I Dam
Gravity dam construction by the roller compacted concrete method (RCC) has received widespread interest following completion of Shimajigawa Dam in Japan (1981) and Willow Creek Dam in...
Water Supply Critical Areas
Due to the serious overuse of groundwater resources which has led to the continued decline of the potentiometric surface of certain aquifers below sea level, and to real and potential...
Application of a GIS to a Ground Water Classification System
New more effective methods of ground water management are being developed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) including an anticipatory conceptual State ground...
Current Developments in Reinsulating/Waterproofing Underground Steam Mains in New York City
The objective of Con Edison's reinsulation project is to develop the materials and technology necessary to reinsulate those steam distribution mains having excessive thermal...
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