Private Funds, Public Projects
Tapping private sources for public services is not new, though the concept has advanced from traditional contracting for services, which has been around since pre-Revolutionary War days....
New Safety for Old Dams
Shortly after the Phase I inspection program conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1978-81, the Pennsylvania legislature authorized $300 million for repair of dams, ports and...
Development and Management Aspects of Irrigation and Drainage Systems
The 1985 Irrigation and Drainage Division Specialty Conference held in San Antonio, Texas on July 17-19, 1985 covered major topics on watershed management and water conveyance, drainage...
Computer Applications in Water Resources
The use of computers in all engineering disciplines has, in the past decade, increased to the point where virtually all engineers now use these powerful tools. This is especially true...
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 environmental...
Control of the Design Process
Gilbert/Commonwealth, Inc. (G/C) was the architect-engineer for the original design of the Florida Power Corporation (FPC) Crystal River Nuclear Plant, Unit 3 (CR3) and has been involved...
The PowerBarge Hydroelectric Plant
Following an account of the need for such an approach, the PowerBarge hydroelectric plant design concept is described as a fully floating system consisting of an Intake Barge, Siphon Penstock,...
Libby Rereg's Combined Spillway and Powerhouse
The existing powerhouse at Libby Dam, located near Libby, Montana has four generating units for a total of 420 MW. Provisions have been made which will allow doubling the plant rating...
Membrane Sealing of Rouchain Dam
A synthetic sealing membrane was used to prevent excessive leakage through the facing of an embankment dam. The works, which were completed rapidly and at low cost, enabled the reservoir...
Concrete Face Rockfill Dams of the Winneke Project
Two of the three dams forming the Winneke Reservoir, near Melbourne, Australia, are concrete face rockfill dams. A minor dam forming the sludge storage pond for the project's...
Design and Performance of Shiroro Rockfill Dam
Shiroro Dam, constructed across the Kaduna River in Nigeria, is a rockfill dam with reinforced concrete facing. The dam was completed in late 1983, and reservoir impounding started in...
Design Features of Salvajina Dam
Salvajina dam is the second highest concrete face rockfill dam currently in service in the world. The characteristics of the foundation of the toe slab vary from fresh, sound and little...
Seismic Design of Concrete Faced Rockfill Dams
The results of analytical studies of the stability of the slopes of concrete-faced rockfill dams under different levels of earthquake shaking are presented and used to propose desirable...
A Summary of the Seismic Qualification Utilities Group (SQUG) Program
In December of 1980, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) initiated Unresolved Safety Issue (USI) A-46 to address the question of the seismic adequacy of equipment in 49 operating nuclear...
Earthquake Experience Data on Power and Industrial Structures: Applications to Seismic Design and Evaluation
An extensive study was conducted to document the seismic performance of typical power plant and industrial structures in selected recent strong earthquakes and to correlate the performance...
Seismic Design-Qualification of Non-Safety Related Items in Safety Related Envelope
This presentation pertains to Seismic Design-Qualification for those portions of structures, systems, or components in a Nuclear Plant whose continued function is not required but whose...
Performance Prediction for Removal of Odorous Organics From Drinking Water by Adsorption
The authors address three questions: What do packed bed filters remove from suspension in water treatment plants? How do they accomplish this removal? How can this knowledge be used in...
Particles, Pretreatment, and Performance in Water Filtration
Relationships among raw water quality, pretreatment facilities, and the design of packed bed filters are presented and applied. The particle size, particle concentration, particle surface...
Automation of Booster Pump Stations
Several techniques have been used to automate booster pump stations for irrigation conveyance systems. These pump stations typically must supply pressurized water for a wide range of flow...
Physical Evaluation of a Buried Drainage System
The drainage problem in the 600,000 acre (1. 5 million ha) Westlands Water District (District), located in the Central San Joaquin Valley in California is that of a perched saline groundwater...
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