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Building
Blocks, Army Style
These
newly patented interlocking paving blocks may be the answer to
your stream erosion control problems, whether your project is
governmental or commercial.
By
Paul D. Q. Campbell
Development
of a Stormwater Master Plan
Maryland
Heights, MO, took on a major study to form a comprehensive stormwater
master plan to settle erosion and flooding problems associated
with increased urbanization. Here's how the city completed its
objectives.
By Stephen Randolph,
Gene Rovak, and Martin B. Macke
The
Fruits of Victory
In
1989 the Army Corps of Engineers faced a nagging problem: how
to enlarge the Houston and Galveston Ship Channels, dispose of
millions of cubic yards of dredge, and keep the dissenters happy.
By
Cathy Handley
Installing
Check Structures in Small Drainage Channels
The
following is an excerpt from hydrologist Jerry Fifield's upcoming
textbook, Designing Effective Sediment and Erosion Control for
Construction Sites.
By Jerald S. Fifield
Integrated
Roadside Vegetation Management: A Quick Glance Around the Country
Fourteen
states describe how their departments of transportation incorporate
integrated roadside vegetation management into their programs
and explain what works best for them.
By
Kirk Henderson
Land-Use
Planning: The Ultimate BMP
Land-use
planners might be the next urban heroes as they create new standards
that can maintain the quality of city life by protecting floodplains,
wetlands, riparian corridors, and the hydrologic systems that
sustain them.
By Martha S. Mitchell
Forum:
Shoring Up the Soil
Retaining
walls have hundreds of applications: from residential landscaping
to highway construction, from reinforcing channel embankments
to making all-but-unusable land suitable for building. The types
of retaining walls-segmental, mechanically stabilized earth, cast-in-place-are
almost as varied as the uses. They are valuable, age-old tools
used not only for construction, but also in the broad context
of erosion and sediment control.
By Janice Kaspersen
Ranking
Sites' Erosion Potential at Los Alamos National Laboratory
You've
got 1,400 potentially disturbed sites to deal with on a shoestring
budget, so what do you do? You devise a creative assessment system
that lets you focus your resources where they'll do the most good.
By Steve Veenis
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