Design Work Begins on Major Expansion of Houston Treatment Facility
Drinking Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan, Prompts Congress to Consider Responses
White House Promotes Water Innovation Strategy to Conserve, Augment Water Resources
Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations
Civil engineers have responsibilities for the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of physical infrastructures. These infrastructures include all types of buildings,...
Evaluating Bridges With Unknown Foundations for Susceptibility to Scour: North Carolina Applies Risk-Based Guidelines to Over 3,750 Bridges
Scour occurs when flowing water removes erodible material such as sand and rock. For bridges over water, scour affects the stability of pier and abutment foundations and contributes to...
Outfitted with Turbines, Portland Water Pipeline Generates Hydropower
Geotextile Tube Dewatering
Geotextile tubes are made of high-strength, permeable geotextile that, when filled with a slurry, allow water to drain from the tubes while retaining the solids. They can be prefabricated...
Long-Term Performance Monitoring of a Hillside Retaining Wall
To accommodate expansion of the West Point Treatment Plant in Seattle, WA, a 3,000-ft-long soldier pile, tieback-anchored retaining wall was constructed from May 1991 to May 1992. An oblique...
Design Considerations Common To All Permeable Pavements
Impervious cover in watersheds without controls result in increased stormwater runoff and decreased groundwater recharge in response to rainfall events. This increased runoff can be the...
Buried Streams Export More Nitrate Than Do Open Streams, Study Finds
Thornton Composite Reservoir Greatly Boosts Chicago's CSO Storage Capacity
Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment
The Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment presents activity and research developments in water issues, challenges, and opportunities throughout the developed landscape. The scope covers...
Paris Airport Constructs Wetlands Solution to Winter Pollutants
Utility Tests Ion Exchange Process to Comply with California's Chromium 6 Limit
Congress Seeks Answers in Addressing Cyanotoxins in Drinking Water
Conservation Offers Untapped Benefits for Improving Water Quality, Supplies, Report Says
Appendix A Lake Superior Regulation: Addressing Uncertainty in Upper Great Lakes Water Levels
Back matter pages come after the papers or chapters in a published work. This back matter contains Lake Superior regulation: addressing uncertainty in upper great lakes water levels....
Los Angeles to Capture More Stormwater to Help Meet Future Water Demands
Portland Development Conducts District-Scale Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
A vertical city anchored to the seabed in coastal waters and capable of supporting as many as 25,000 people without the aid of outside energy sources has been designed by Luca Curci Architects, based in Bari, Italy...
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