Legislative Trends Affecting the Funding of Public Works
The paper reviews key factors that will shape legislative consideration of measures to provide infrastructure to support urban growth and to maintain existing public facilities. The discussion...
Current Research and Research Needs in Deep Foundations
This report summarizes the current range of research on deep foundations now being performed in the United States. The report is divided into two main sections: (1) Current research or...
Infrastructure for Urban Growth
Papers presented dealt with the financial, legal, political, planning, and engineering issues associated with providing public infrastructure necessary to meet the demands of growth in...
Curved Sewers: Yes or No?
A study of curved sewer use in Southern California examines sewer design and maintenance of curved versus straight sewers. A telephone survey of personnel in design and maintenance of...
Microcomputers for Construction Field Offices
This paper presents an overview of U. S. Army Corps of Engineers experience with using microcomputers for construction management. Construction management applications for contract administration...
Application of User Charges
Local government administrators across the country are increasingly interested in improving the application of user-based charges by documenting the costs of service provided to internal...
The Search for Engineering Ethics
The author suggests that engineering ethics is not a set of guild rules governing polite behavior; not a matter of obeying the law or being prudent in business; not a viable substitute...
Help with Permits In One Stop
New Jersey State Government has developed a system which enables practicing engineers to identify and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements for a specific project. Publication...
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...
Groundwater State of the Art: Is It Adequate?
Representatives from academia, engineering firms, trade associations, and government outline what they believe are the major needs in research, equipment, education and government programs...
Infrastructure: Money and Methods
State and local governments have started to cope with their infrastructure problems by passing bond issues, establishing infrastructure banks to centralize resources and decision making,...
Management Plan for Dredged Maintenance Material
The Mobile District Corps of Engineers is responsible for the maintenance of an authorized Federal deep-draft navigation project at Pascagoula Harbor, Mississippi. The development of the...
Long-Term Maintenance Dredging PermIts--Florida's New Approach to Regulation and Its Implications for Federal, State, and Local Reforms
Florida has developed a long-term maintenance dredging permit process to reduce problems in obtaining regulatory approvals. Under Florida's new program, the term of the permit...
Aquaculture in Dredged Material Containment Areas
The beneficial use of active dredged material containment areas through aquaculture appears to offer, under certain circumstances, benefits to the Federal government, municipal and industrial...
Regulation: The Unsolved Dilemma
Over the years, the impact of governmental regulatory agencies has severely restricted industrial and commercial development in southern New Jersey. Recent Federal reviews of these regulations...
The Experience of the St. Paul District Corps of Engineers, with State Coordination of Dredging Activities
The St. Paul District annually dredges about 1 million cubic yards of predominately clean sandy river sediments. Most of this volume comes from our maintenance of 284 miles of the 9-foot...
After Industry Capability Program
This paper presents information on the dredging work split between the government and industry since the end of the Industry Capability Program (ICP) in Fiscal Year 1981. A long-term look...
Risk Analysis in Dam Safety Programs
There are about 68,000 dams in the Nation. About 95 percent of the dams are nonfederal; the balance are owned by various agencies of the federal government. Over 30 percent of the high...
Operational Cloud Seeding Projects in the Western United States
The physical concepts of weather modification were developed and tested in the mid 1940's by Vincent Schafer and Bernard Vonnegut. Since that time, many projects have come...
Consulting Engineering
How Can Manual 45 be Improved?
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