A Nine Pipe Jacked Crossing of I-93 in Downtown Boston
Catchy Culverts
Franklin County, Ohio, installed box culverts in Norman Ditch to prevent flooding of surrounding homes, streets and sewer lines after heavy storms. The design team, given tight deadlines...
Mapping Convergence: GIS Joins the Enterprise
While utilities and telecommunications companies have led the way in maximizing GIS's potential, some progressive municipalities are now incorporating GIS into every aspect of their daily...
A New Look at Old Man River
After the 1993 Midwest flood, a research team conducted one of the largest aerial mapping projects in U.S. history�a year-long, $3.7 million effort that demonstrates the utility of photogrammetry...
Alternative Relicensing Strategies
Reinventing the Bureau of Reclamation's Power Program
Addressing the Costs of Public Benefits: Ensuring a Place for Hydroelectric Power in a Restructured Competitive Electric Industry
Integrating Sensing Technologies for Underground Utility Assessment
Uncertainty Analysis of a Water Resources System in a Competition and Privatization Environment
Pumped-Up Pumping Stations
The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, a public utility serving Prince Georges County and Montgomery County, Md., publishes a design guide (DG-04) to help outside consultants meet...
Design and Construction Risk Management for Existing Utilities
Sewer Rehabilitation: Developing Cost-Effective Alternatives
Aspects of Geotechnical Engineering in Permafrost Regions
Nature's Payback (Available in Geoenvironmental Engineering Special Issue)
Environmental compensation is now a major concern for utilities and other developers who must compensate for impacting wetlands, streams and other environmentally-sensitive areas. To meet...
Rerouting Boston's Utilities
During construction of the Central Artery/Tunnel project in downtown Boston, engineers had to move utility lines over and under both new and existing infrastructure and maintain utility...
Spawning a Hydroelectric Plant
A hydroelectric facility which utilizes fishway attraction water on the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon will tap a neglected source of power and save many endangered fish...
Financing the Future of Storm Water
For Sarasota County, Fla., draining storm water no longer means draining municipal funds. By establishing a modern storm-water utility, the county has provided a dedicated funding source...
A New Direction in Remediation
Engineers have always had to rely on wells for onsite soil and ground water remediation systems. During the past several years, horizontal drilling technology, adapted from oil recovery...
Water Quality Improvement Program in Ventura County at Port Hueneme
Integrated resource planning (IRP) has been used successfully by several larger water utilities to resolve complex water supply issues. This paper describes the experience of a smaller...
How Did a California Dam Get a Section 404 Permit?
This paper describes the wetland mitigation planning and implementation efforts conducted for the Contra Costa Water Districts (CCWDs) Los Vaqueros Project in eastern Contra Costa County,...
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