Earth Reinforcement and Soil Structures
Few subjects in recent years have raised the general interest and imagination of the Civil Engineering profession as the concept of reinforcing soil. The basic simplicity of the principles...
Water Quality Regs: Staying Ahead
After a century in which water utilities could stay well ahead of most regulations simply by being responsible, professional organizations, they now seem to be playing catchup in a game...
Residual Benefits
Stringent pretreatment and effluent standards and a lack of capacity prohibit their release into sanitary sewer systems. Landfill disposal is costly. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination...
Soft Ground Not Easy Ground for TBM
The King County Department of Metropolitan Services (formerly called Metro), faced with the need to transfer wastewater from the West Seattle drainage basin to a secondary treatment plant...
Greening of Ground Water
As many as 69 different organic compounds and 24 metal species can be found in ground water underlying the 85 acre Bofors-Nobel Superfund site in Muskegon County, Mich., a testimony to...
Toxic Air Emissions from Wastewater Treatment Facilities
The Magnificent 17
Only two of 1995's record 19 nominees could win the 1995 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award and the Award of Merit, but the 17 remaining nominees are noteworthy...
Turning Water into Dollars
Revenues were suffering in the water departments of Jefferson Parish, La. and Houston in the late 1980s and early 90s. But after overhauling their billing, collection and customer-service...
Beware the Sediment Scare
Your municipal or industrial stormwater facility meets best management practices (BMPs) as outlined by EPA. It is designed to meet requirements under the Clean Water Act and the accompanying...
Turning Down the Power
Traditionally, utilities have responded to demands for more power by simply increasing the energy supply. But this results in higher costs for both the supplier (in the form permitting,...
Innovative Technologies for Site Remediation and Hazardous Waste Management
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Water Water Everywhere
The city of San Diego is constructing a very large water reclamation plant that will use new methods to decontaminate water for industrial and agricultural uses. The plant is being built...
Now Showing in San Diego
This article is a roundup of three major infrastructure projects in the San Diego area. Each of these projects will be features in the technical tours portion of the ASCE conference in...
Tracking a Serial Filter
The Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District in northern California conducted pilot testing of extreme/high-rate serial filtration (EHRSF) to see if the process could meet water treatment...
Removing Metals From Soil
Metals-contaminated soils have been among the most intractable hazardous-waste remediation problems. Conventional mitigation methods of capping, stabilization and landfilling all have...
A Texas-Sized SSO Solution
Houston is under the gun to control chronic overflows in its sanitary-sewer-collection system--a wet-weather problem that has plagued the city for years. For a problem this massive, the...
Odor Control in Wastewater Treatment Plants
This manual should be of primary assistance to wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) operators and management, engineers, wastewater agency management personnel, laboratory staff, and collection...
Trenchless Relief
During wet weather, stormwater infiltration/inflow into the sewer system increases wastewater flows by 8-12 times the average dry weather flow in several interceptors operated by the Central...
Automation Concepts for In-Situ Waste Containment
The isolation of chemical and radioactive contaminants from groundwater supplies is a topic of increasing concern and urgency. In-situ containment of hazardous wastes is preferable if...
Reduction, Reuse, and Recycling on a Future Lunar Base
The paper addresses the waste management problems on Earth as they relate to a future lunar base and suggests measures to prevent these problems from occurring in the base. Offensive action...
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