The Timberlake Dam Failure: A Hydrometeorological Assessment
Extremely heavy rainfall over the Timberlake basin in southwest Virginia on 23 June 1995 caused an earthen dam to fail and resulted in fatalities. The meteorological conditions are examined...
Challenges of an Advance Utility Contract for a Major Highway Widening Project in Norfolk, Virginia
A Surveying Trip Report from George Washington's Diary
High-Performance Concrete in Bridge Structures in Virginia
Geoenvironmental Challenges at the Old Dominion Sanitary Landfill and Resource Management Facility
Rebuilding for Competitiveness, Port of Richmond Terminal, Virginia
Investigation of the Collapse of the 300-foot Radio Telescope at Greenbank West Virginia
Manganese in Recovered Water From An ASR Well
When Should PCCP With Interface Class IV Wire Be Replaced?
Evaluating Stormwater Model Performance in Northern Virginia
Numerical Modeling of Advective and Diffusive Transport in the Rappahannock Estuary, Virginia
A laterally integrated, two-dimensional real-time model, consisting of linked hydrodynamic and water quality models, was developed to study hypoxia in the tidal Rappahannock River, a western...
Getting the Project Started
In 1987, the newly formed Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority began a long term Capital Development Program which will change how both Washington National and Dulles International...
Horizontal and Vertical Movements of Bridge Piers Subjected to Ship Impact
Results of a detailed analysis to evaluate the potential horizontal and vertical movements of the piers of George P. Coleman Bridge, Virginia, in the event of ship impact are presented...
Management of Dredged Material Placement Operations
Non-linear finite strain consolidation theory is used to predict the settlement of fine-grained dredged material due to self-weight and surcharge-induced consolidation. Finite strain consolidation...
Measuring the Benefits of Flood Risk Reduction
Property damages avoided, land price analysis, and contingent valuation were techniques used to estimate the economic benefits of flood risk reduction for residential land parcels in Roanoke,...
Analysis of Levee Design in a Mountain River Using Two-Dimensional Flow Modeling
The South Branch of the Potomac River experienced extreme flooding in November 1985. A flood with an estimated return period of 400 years caused $33 million in damage in Petersburg, West...
Boundary Conditions and Flow Patterns in a Mountain River
Flood flow patterns in mountain valleys may be influenced by longitudinal variations in channel and valley morphology and by temporal variations in boundary conditions. This study utilizes...
Erosion and Deposition by Debris Flows in Mountainous Channels on North Fork Mountain, Eastern West Virginia
A study of four debris-flow impacted channels in the North Fork Mountain area of eastern West Virginia shows that the geomorphic effect of debris flows on channel morphology is variable...
Development of a Long-Term Dredged Material Management Plan Chincoteague, Virginia
The Management of Dredged Material Placement for the Development of Oyster Rock on the Eastern Shore of Virginia
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