Fast Tracking Milwaukee's Stormwater Cleanup
In building a massive sewer and treatment plant, Milwaukee solved legal and management problems. At the same time, the city speeded design and construction for the project. Triggered by...
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...
Performance of Water and Sewer Lifelines in the May 2, 1983 Coalinga, California Earthquake
Water supply and filtration systems for the City of Coalinga suffered little damage. The water transmission system suffered five breaks. The urban distribution system was disrupted, but...
Dynamic Response Correlation of Cylindrical Tanks
The May 1983 Coalinga Earthquake provided an opportunity to correlate earthquake performance of cylindrical liquid storage tanks with behavior observed in laboratory shaking table experiments....
Water Supply
The Foothills Project adds 125 mgd (5.5 m�/s) to the Denver area water treatment capacity, and saved approximately $1 million in energy costs in the first year of its operation. The $163...
Caisson
The Jamaica Bay Water Pollution Plant was renovated and upgraded from l973-l983 and included sinking a 116 ft. x 105 ft. caisson 50 ft. deep adjacent to city streets and buildings. The...
Sewage Plant
The Sacramento Regional Wastewater Management Program cost $460 million, took 10 years to build, and solved problems in sludge disposal, odor control, conveyance systems, combined sewer...
Ocean Energy
The Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) component nominated this year as an ASCE Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement involves the most critical design problem; the cold water...
Reservoir
To preserve a vital part of the St. Louis, Mo. water supply , Stacy Park Reservoir was renovated with a new concrete roof over half its area and new beams in the other half. The new roof...
Winter Snowpack Augmentation in Utah
The snowpack enhancement cloudseeding program in Utah was operated continuously for ten consecutive years prior to the 1983-84 water year. It was designed to augment water supplies in...
Weather Modification Potential ? Santa Clara Valley
Santa Clara County of California has been a water deficient area. The Santa Clara Valley Water District has an obligation to the community and to the other water users in the State to...
Allen-McColloch Pipeline Computer Based Control System
The Allen McColloch Pipeline (AMP) was designed to deliver 416 cfs of treated water from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California's Diemer Water Treatment Plant...
Automatic Controls for Industrial Water System
An 8-mile pipeline and associated facilities along its route are controlled by a centralized system consisting of a master station and four remotes. Each site employs Westinghouse programmable...
Economics of Groundwater-Pumping Level Statutes
Pumping from one well may lower the water table in another to the point where pumping from it becomes unfeasible. Problems exist in allocating the increased costs of pumping caused by...
San Joaquin Valley Hydrologic-Economic Model
The rapid development of agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley has resulted in increased ground water pumpage. Increasing energy costs coupled with increasing pumping lifts have a major...
Groundwater Basin Storage in Southern California
The feasibility of implementing a groundwater storage program in the Chino Groundwater Basin (Chino Basin) to increase the firm yield of the SWP (California State Water Project) is considered....
Ground Water Economics in the San Joaquin Valley
Ground water pumping in the San Joaquin Valley to supplement surface water supplies has increased from about 200 thousand acre-feet per year at the beginning of this century to nine million...
Drip Irrigated Cotton: Economics and Water Savings
Groundwater withdrawals for cotton production in the arid Southwest account for about 15 percent of all groundwater withdrawals. In Arizona, cotton's proportion of groundwater...
River Meandering
The erosion and sedimentation processes associated with river meandering have a profound effect on man's use of rivers and their valleys, as well as the natural environment....
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of the Annual Conference on Environmental Engineering is to pursue scientific knowledge and promote sound engineering judgement and practice in the solution of the many environmental...
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