Net gains
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Project Web sites for environmental, construction, and other efforts can help architects, scientists, engineers, and contractors improve almost every project phase. Such sites can include field reports, e-mail links, project notes, progress photographs, scalable design drawings and environmental databases updated through geographic information systems.
Publication Name: Civil Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0885-7024
Year: 1998
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Coming to the surface
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This article discusses converting water supply from primarily a groundwater system to surface water system in Houston, Texas. The project's attractive feature is in saving about $8 million in construction costs by constructing aerial pipeline crossings over highways and drainage ditches instead of using trenching or tunneling methods.
Publication Name: Civil Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0885-7024
Year: 2001
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Deep aquifer storage gains ground in the Midwest
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This article reports on the aquifer storage facility planned to store treated water in Des Moines, Iowa. The aquifer is situated 2,500 feet below the ground surface and reportedly the deepest in the world.
Publication Name: Civil Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0885-7024
Year: 2000
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