Bioremediation Comes of Age
Only five years ago engineers and scientists met with EPA officials to weigh the merits of bioremediation as a hazwaste cleanup tool. Now bioremediation has become an accepted effective...
Chicago Remaps Itself
Chicago, famed as the City of the Big Shoulders, is taking its own measurements in preparation for the 21st century. The city is in the midst of a $10 million, multi-year project to create...
NAFTA Handbook for Water Resources Managers and Engineers
Sponsored by ASCE; the U.S.?Mexican Policy Studies Program, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin. This report...
Integrated Water Resources Planning for the 21st Century
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The Magnificent 17
Only two of 1995's record 19 nominees could win the 1995 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award and the Award of Merit, but the 17 remaining nominees are noteworthy...
Turning Water into Dollars
Revenues were suffering in the water departments of Jefferson Parish, La. and Houston in the late 1980s and early 90s. But after overhauling their billing, collection and customer-service...
Artificial Recharge of Ground Water II
The Second International Symposium on Artificial Recharge of Ground Water was held in Orlando, Florida from July 17-22, 1995 and sponsored by the ASCE Special Standards Division, the ASCE...
Groundwater Management
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Waterpower '95
This proceedings contains the papers presented at the Waterpower '95 conference held in San Francisco, California, July 25-28, 1995. The conference brought together owners,...
Watershed Management Planning for the 21st Century
This proceedings consists of papers presented at the 1995 Watershed Management Symposium held in San Antonio, Texas, on August 14?16, 1995. These papers present research and practical...
Water Water Everywhere
The city of San Diego is constructing a very large water reclamation plant that will use new methods to decontaminate water for industrial and agricultural uses. The plant is being built...
Restoring a Stream Corridor
The Stream Restoration Project is an environmental remediation project in a residential area in the Northeast United States. The soil in the flood plain of the stream was contaminated...
Tracking a Serial Filter
The Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District in northern California conducted pilot testing of extreme/high-rate serial filtration (EHRSF) to see if the process could meet water treatment...
Water Resources Engineering
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The Boom in In Situ Bioremediation
In situ bioremediation was first applied in 1972 when a subsurface release of high-octane gasoline threatened the water supply of a small town in Pennsylvania. Soluble inorganic nutrients...
Mother Nature's Pump and Treat
Known under the general term of phytoremediation, using vegetation as a remedial agent has existed in its basic form for many years, mostly in applications involving waste-water treatment....
SOS For Small-Town SSOs
No matter why a small town confronts its sanitary-sewer-overflow problems, solutions are bound by the town's own resources. For two Midwestern towns, hindsight shows that...
Geo-Environmental Issues Facing the Americas
Contamination of soil and ground water are problems common to developed as well as developing countries; their effects on health and the deterioration of natural resources transcend national...
Management of Water Resources in North America III
Anticipating the 21st Century
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Microtunneling Meets Mother Nature
The world's first ocean thermal energy plant is getting a double. Microtunneling the second ocean intake 80 ft under the Pacific Ocean is proving challenging, partly due to...
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