Instrumentation: Stream and Rainfall Gauge System Predicts Floods
Parkway Payoff
A massive cast-in-place segmental bridge over the James River is the most noticeable part of the $325 million Route 895 toll road project in Richmond, Virginia, but the most innovative...
Geotechnical Engineering: Engineers Use Basic Tools to Avert Flooding Disaster
Investigation of Flood Protection from Alluvial Fan Flows and Minimizing Impacts to a Sensitive Habitat Preserve: Whitewater River Basin, Coachella Valley, California
The study describes and evaluates (1) the baseline conditions to hydrology, hydraulics, wind transport of sand, sediment transport by fluvial process, the environment, economics, and (2)...
Revised Operation of a Dam and Reservoir to Achieve Environmental Objectives
Alamo Dam and Lake are located in the State of Arizona in the western part of the United States of America. The dam is located 62.8 km (39 mi) upstream (east) from the rivers confluence...
Water Control Data System Modernization: Huntington District, Corps of Engineers
The Water Control Data System (WCDS) provides the tools that are used in making daily operational decisions for 35 reservoir projects and 9 navigation structures in Huntington District....
New Bern Bypass
To alleviate congestion and offer tourists easier access to their destinations, the North Carolina Department of Transportation decided to reroute U.S. Route 17 out of the historic town...
Engineer Creates Floodplain Management Software
The New Orleans Network
Though Seattle and Portland are the cities usually associated with high rainfall, the New Orleans metropolitan area averages 58 in. (1,473 mm) of rainfall each year—more than any other...
Safeguarding Los Alamos
A forest fire that burned 48,000 ac (19,500 ha) around the Los Alamos National Laboratory, in New Mexico, in May 2000, created another problem for one of the nation's most...
Bridge Scour Evaluation Program in the United States
Bridge Abutment Scour in a Floodplain
Bridge Abutment Scour in Floodplain with Backwater
Local Scaling of Bridge Abutment Scour in Compound Channels
Building Scour in Floodplains
Bridge Abutment Scour in Compound Channels
Abutment Scour in Compound Channels
Contraction Scour: Two Iowa Case Studies
Frequency of the 1993 Flood in the Upper Mississippi River Basin
Bridge Scour During the 1993 Floods in the Upper Mississippi River Basin
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