Highway Noise: FHWA Requirements and Barrier Design
Since 1973, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has required noise studies for nearly all proposed roadways and roadway improvements that receive federal aid. An overview of these...
A Case Study - Toms River Water Company, Toms River, New Jersey
Toms River Water Company provides water service to Dover Township, the Borough of South Toms River and portions of Berkeley Township, all in Ocean County, New Jersey. Existing supply facilities...
Computerized Design and Selection of Pumping Systems
Three computer models have been applied in the evaluation, design and selection of a high-lift pump station upgrading program developed for the City of Poughkeepsie, New York. The three...
Application of Phosphorus Models to New Mexico Reservoirs
Many empirical, mass-balance phosphorus models have been developed and tested on northern, temperature lakes and previously published. Fourteen of those published models were tested on...
Ground-Water Flow Model of Soda-Ash Waste Beds
A recent application by a steel manufacturing plant to obtain a permit for an industrial landfill located on top of abandoned soda-ash waste beds in the City of Syracuse, New York, resulted...
Emerging Environmental Clean-Up Responsibility
This paper is a summary of the structure of regulations requiring clean-up of sites when closed or sold, specifically the State of New Jersey's Environmental Cleanup Responsibility...
The Environmental Assessment Process at the Municipal Level in New Jersey
It is shown that there are many complex interactions that often affect the review process associated with environmental assessments in the State of New Jersey and probably in other states...
Hazard Assessment of Landfill Fire Air Emissions
The PJP Landfill, located in northeastern New Jersey, is a suspected hazardous waste site, and is listed on the federal Superfund National Priorities List. In addition to contaminating...
Sludge Treatment Design Lands Innovative Funding
The design of sludge treatment facilities for the 10 mgd Ithaca, New York, wastewater treatment plant incorporates both proven technology in the form of gravity thickening and anaerobic...
Effect of Santa Rosa Lake on Ground Water Flow to the Pecos River, New Mexico
In 1980, Santa Rosa Dam began impounding water on the Pecos River about 7 miles (11 kilometers) north of Santa Rosa, New Mexico, to provide flood control and storage for irrigation. Santa...
Fishery Mitigation in an Estuarine Environment
This paper summarizes the major features of the estuarine mitigation plan proposed by New York State Department of Transportation in conjunction with the interstate highway project known...
Communication of Coastal Erosion Information to Shorefront Residents: The User Perspective
Coastal erosion problems are reaching critical proportions along much of the US shorefront. One reason for this situation is that information needed to improve the management of eroding...
Analysis of Odors from Polluted Bay Ecosystems
Facility effluents, runoff, sewage and manmade constituents entering bays and streams can provide a source of nutrients which can support the growth of odor producing benthic or planktonic...
Dredge Material Evaluation Through Harbor Characterization in New England
The New England Division (NED) of the Corps has recently developed a broad based methodology for simultaneously evaluating dredging projects that are in close proximity and which would...
Ocean Dumping at the Philadelphia Site; A Case Study
This study reviews the results of eleven years of investigation of the impact of ocean disposal of sewage sludge at the Philadelphia dumpsite. The site, located on the continental shelf...
Investigations of Day-Night Distributional Changes of Striped Bass in Hudson River Interpier Areas
As part of a Hudson River fisheries study, investigations were made in an attempt to assess whether onshore-offshore movements could change the number of juvenile striped bass using interpier...
Importance of Underpier Areas in Lower Hudson River for Striped Bass
A stratified random sampling design was employed in which each of three sampling zones (New York, New Jersey and Upper Harbor underpier areas) were sampled once per month from February...
Guidelines for the Mitigation of Salt Marshes in New Jersey
Mitigation is the environmental compensation for human impacts and disturbances on sensitive and legally protected ecological systems. The primary goal of mitigating human developments...
Some Econological Observations on Coastal Plant Communities, of New York and New Jersey
The present study was conducted at three coastal sites, Fire Island, New York, Fort Tilden, New York, and Sandy Hook, New Jersey. Four plant communities, the salt marsh community, sand...
Louisiana's Joint Public Notice System
The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, Coastal Management Division (CMD) implemented the Joint Public Notice System (JPNS), a cooperative agreement with the United States Army,...
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