Feasibility of Weather Modification for California's State Water Project
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR), in the mid 1950's, contracted with some 30 water agencies to eventually furnish about 4. 2 million acre-feet (MAF) of water...
Three Rainfall Augmentation Programs in Texas
Three rainfall augmentation programs were initiated during the summer of 1985 in response to drought conditions affecting Texas in 1984. These programs were supported by two municipalities...
Agricultural Drainage Water?How Should It be Regulated?
This paper discusses the existing framework of California liquid waste disposal law, the obstacles presented by these and other laws pertaining to agricultural drainage water disposal...
Economic Analysis Tools for Differential Inflation
Economic decisions based on a life-cycle analysis should consider differential increases or decreases in operation and replacement costs and benefits over the project or component life....
The Animas-La Plata Project Cost Sharing Agreement
The United States Congress required a cost-sharing agreement between the project beneficiaries and the Federal government. Under this agreement of June 30, 1986, the project will be constructed...
Future Directions on World Bank Irrigation Projects in India
Irrigation development in India is proceeding at a record rate and will continue for several decades. Experience, however, is showing that future directions must entail substantive emphasis...
Economic Benefit of Irrigation on Beef Ranches
Drought can result in forage shortages leading to possible liquidation of the breeding herd. Liquidation is often at depressed prices, and replacement may be at elevated prices. In this...
Winery Wastewater Land Application
Winery wastewater is characterized by low pH, relatively high BOD, and a low nutrient content. Land application using rapid infiltration basins has been practiced successfully at a number...
Management Challenges Affecting Agricultural Reuse of High-Strength Food Processing Wastewaters
Land treatment of high-strength food processing wastewaters is a viable pollution control technology. Due to the high-strength characteristics of these wastewaters, effective site management...
Review of the Lake Andes-Wagner Project Sizing
Benefit-cost analyses of the proposed U. S. Bureau of Reclamation Lake Andes-Wagner Project have shown the project to be marginally feasible. In an effort to improve the benefit-cost ratio,...
The Inflatable Weir and Its Widespread Employment for Irrigation in Japan
Although introduced in the U. S. in the 1950's for groundwater recharging, the inflatable weir has become established only in Japan, in which case it is used almost entirely...
Subsurface Drains Solve Groundwater Rise Problems
Four sub-surface drainage alternates were evaluated for lowering the rising water table. Horizontal gravity drainage system offered the best solution to the problem. Disposal of drained...
Prognostics of Water Management in Agriculture
This paper discusses principles of methodology and application of agricultural water management prognostics. Included are irrigation and drainage prognostics in Hungary and concrete economic...
An Integrated Rehabilitation Procedure for Gravity Systems
Demands for an improved system combined with a more adjusted management mode are common in many projects where limited or strained budgets do not allow for a regular and secure water supply....
Managing Water Resources Using Geographic Information Systems as a Tool
The Oregon Water Resources Department is designing and using a geographic information system (GIS) to manage water rights. The system allows automation of many tasks including: production...
Water Table and Salinity Movement in a Silty Clay Soil
The movement of the water table and profile salinity in a shallow drained soil in permanent pasture overlying an artesian aquifer was observed. Soil samples were taken before and after...
Operation of Glen Canyon Dam during 1983 and 1984 and the Repairs of Glen Canyon Spillways (
The gates at Glen Canyon Dam were closed in the spring of 1963 and the reservoir did not fill until the summer of 1980. The spillways were tested in 1980 with only slight evidence of operational...
Project Controls
Needs and Solutions
This volume contains the proceedings of an ASCE Specialty Conference on
Nuclear Waste Disposal: Where Are We?
The U.S. Department of Energy is conducting preliminary site characterizations for three candidates for nuclear waste disposal. The sites are in three different geologic sites. A Richland,...
Building a Team, Not Just a Building
The best way to resolve construction disputes is to head them off. And the best time to step in is before your contractor is hired. In the private sector, there is no reason to open the...
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