Three major initiatives, conducted simultaneously, avert “merger mania” by maximizing connections and minimizing disruption.
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A county park unites residents of disparate housing developments.
Spend less on rip-rap by transitioning culverts into natural streams.
Container management ensures safe, efficient herbicide application.
Engineered repairs for concrete pavements.
A weir retrofit project in Florida shelters residents from fluctuating lake levels.
Influence behavior by personalizing the damage that cooking residues cause.
Public works departments may find themselves at both ends of the EPA's new effluent limitation guidelines for construction sites, both as permitting authorities and as site owners. It's time to explore the most preferred methodology for keeping jobsites clean.
Pinpoint the problems with a sanitary sewer evaluation study.
Managers in Southern California combat drought by enhancing their product portfolio.
Geodatabase helps city secure $100 million in federal disaster aid.
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Folks on the coasts like to sneer at the Midwest, but I should know better. I've lived in Illinois all my life. (And, no, I'm not going to reveal how many years that's been!)
Next to the Mississippi River delta in the Gulf of Mexico, no other river basin in North America struggles with excess nutrients more than the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The 64,000-square-mile estuary is the nation's largest, encompassing parts of Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia...
Calculating the costs of manual vs. mechanized material-moving.
Product features from the June 2009 PUBLIC WORKS Products Newsletter