L.A. Grapples with Changing EPA Regs
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) studies indicate that between now and the year 2000 an additional $117 billion will be needed to accommodate projected growth and to meet water quality...
Land Application of Dredged Material at Port Manatee
Maintenance dredging of approximately 600,000 cu yd of highly plastic clay was conducted in October 1983. This material was deposited on a nearly 200 acre tract of farmland in a depth...
Long-Term Management of Confined Disposal Areas
Systematic management of confined dredged material disposal sites is becoming increasingly necessary as competition for land use intensifies in regions in which most dredging projects...
Strip Mine Reclamation Using Dredged Material
This alternative was investigated through the creation of a field study to demonstrate the feasibility of using a cover of dewatered dredged material to reclaim surface mine deposits....
Hydraulic Testing of a Large Make-Up Pipeline
A 37 mile pipeline which consists of sections of 114 inch, 96 inch and 66 inch pipes was constructed for delivering secondary sewage effluents for power plant makeup. During initial operations,...
Outlet Hydraulics vs. Storage Requirements
In many cases developers must use a portion of their land for temporary detention of storm runoff in order to comply with local ordinances. A simple method is outlined which yields the...
CN Approach to Water Budgets for Small Watersheds
In some states, issuance of a surface mining permit is dependent upon an assessment of the current hydrologic baseline of the area to be mined and of the probable future impacts of mining...
Innovative and Affordable Residential Development
The rise in cost of land, housing construction and financing over recent decades has seriously reduced the number of those eligible for home loans. These and other cost factors are carefully...
Taj Mahals in the Desert
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has just opened two major international airports and is in the process of building a third. These are unusual projects in that designers and contractors were...
Alluvial Fans: Novel Flood Challenge
After disastrous floods hit Cabazon, Calif., engineers faced the challenge of balancing concerns about protecting property and life (by limiting or prohibiting construction) against the...
Arizona's Water Strategy: Bring More In and Restrict Its Use
Decades of pumping groundwater faster than the natural rate of replenishment have lowered Arizona's water table to record depths and caused land subsidence and fissures. The...
Map Uses, Scales and Accuracies for Engineering and Associated Purposes
This publication is designed to aid engineers and others in obtaining maps suitable for use in engineering and associated work. Such maps must have the proper contour interval, map scale,...
Urban Water Conservation
Increasing Efficiency-in-Use Residential Water Demand
Water supply and wastewater flow problems have resulted in an increasing concern with urban water demand. This report is an assessment of various water conservation measures aimed at reducing...
Microcomputer Water Quality Simulation Model
Water quality models are widely used in the analysis of natural water systems to evaluate the impacts of wastewater handling alternatives and changes in land use. Linear, steady-state,...
Engineers Assess Aquaculture Systems for Wastewater Treatment�Part II
An overview of the status of aquaculture technologies for their routine use in municipal wastewater treatment is presented. The detailed assessments were conducted by six internationally...
Environmental Engineering
Eighty-nine of the papers presented at the 1981 National Conference on Environmental Engineering are included. The four major areas of focus are: (1) Solid and hazardous wastes; (2) Water...
Engineers Assess Aquaculture Systems for Wastewater Treatment
The status of aquaculture technologies for wastewater treatment are explored, and an engineering assessment is made of the feasibility for their routine use in municipal wastewater treatment....
EPA's I/A Program Speeds Use of New Wastewater Treatment Methods
Because Congress felt there wasn't enough cost- and energy-saving innovations taking place in the environmental field, it launched the innovative and alternative technologies...
Guide to Right-of-Way Survey Practices
Guidelines are described for right of way surveys with regard to properly executed research, field surveys, monumentation, platting and recording of plats, and descriptions by trained...
The Planning and Engineering Interface with a Modernized Land Data System
Concern for the modernization of our land records and land resources information systems has been evolving since the early 1960's. Geographic location is the common denominator linking...
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