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...
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...
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...
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....
Appropriate Technology in Resource Conservation & Recovery
Six contributions to proceedings of an October 1979 ASCE workshop deal with both developing and industrial countries. A review of debris accumulation in urban areas reveals archaeological,...
Multimillion-Acre Tea Bag
Just as pouring the same cupful again and again through a tea strainer makes bitter tea, so irrigating again and again with return-flow water concentrates salts in the water supply. While...
Saving the U.S's Rapidly Dwindling Farmland and Other Priceless Natural Resources
Key to land management in the U.S., according to experts at the Council on Environmental Quality, is management of federally owned lands. U.S. needs to protect prime farmland, wetlands,...
Environmental Engineering
The 1980 National Conference on Environmental Engineering was sponsored by the Environmental Engineering Division of the American Society of Civil Engineering in cooperation with Manhattan...
Water Management Improves with Systems Application
The Marsh Run watershed project (in north-central Ohio) is a landmark example of applying systems principles to water resource management. Designed in the 1950's and completed...
The Greening of the Desert: What Cost to Farmers�
The influence of irrigation schemes on the people who work them is a combination of beneficial effects (provision of water, food and opportunity for economic advancement) and undesirable...
Giant Irrigation Projects: What Effect on Rural Development
The success of large-scale irrigation/agriculture projects in the developing world is dependent on good engineering, good management and good planning. The benefits of the first two are...
People's Republic of China�� A Look Inside
The People's Republic of China is a developing country, but they are doing it on their own. In fact, self-reliance at every level is their strongest goal. Through the centuries...
The Magnificent Obsession of TVA
Before the TVA came, the Tennessee Valley region was one of the nation's poorest: no electricity; deep, gullied erosion of the hilly farm country; periodic devastating flooding...
County Leads in Steering Growth
Tulare County, Calif., took the initiative in that state in organizing and developing guidelines for environmental management and planning on the county level. They identified specific...
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