Erosion Monitoring Articles
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Creating Slipway Design Drawing
Designing slipways requires careful planning, engineering expertise, and attention to detail to ensure the safe and efficient launch and retrieval of vessels. Slipways are inclined ramps or platforms used for launching and docking boats, yachts, and ships in marine facilities such as boatyards, shipyards, and marinas. Creating detailed slipway design drawings is a crucial step in the construction ...
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Leveraging Soil Sensors for Enhanced Soil Management
Introduction: Soil management is a critical aspect of agriculture, directly impacting crop productivity and sustainability. Traditional soil management practices often rely on guesswork or labor-intensive sampling methods, leading to inefficiencies and suboptimal results. However, with the advancements in soil sensor technology, farmers now have access to real-time, accurate data on soil ...
By JXCT
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Using Geosynthetics to Stabilize Soils in a Harsh Environment
Mine Site Erosion Problems One of the largest nickel mining sites in the world is located on the island of New Caledonia in the South Pacific. Due to the size of the mining project and the terrain of the site, significant cut-and-fill work for civil engineering structures was ...
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How Erosion Control Measures for Golf Courses can Protect the Soil and Keep Players Safe
In the United States, golf courses cover over 2 million acres of land. Erosion is a significant issue in staining a golf course, and it can cause a considerable loss of revenue. Erosion control measures are critical to maintaining a healthy and functioning course. There are many ways to protect golf courses through effective erosion control methods to provide quality playing surfaces for ...
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3 Ways to improve soil stabilization on your golf course
Many golf courses are located in environmentally fragile areas, which require heightened levels of protection from erosion. This makes soil stabilization efforts even more important on your golf course. Properly planned soil stabilization methods must be monitored and maintained to ensure your golf course continues to be open and protected from erosion. Erosion Problems on Golf Courses Wind and ...
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Soil Erosion Research - University of Zambia - Case Study
Description: A SediMeter was deployed in this water reservoir in order to collect data on the timing and amount of sedimentation in the water reservoir. Traditional methods include repeat measurements of the bed level, and taking of sediment cores, but they only allow the measurements of the net change between measurements, and are unable to register what exactly happens, and when it happens. In ...
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7 of the best methods for erosion control on your construction site
Erosion control is vital to the well-being of a construction site. Successful erosion control ensures a safe and healthy construction site and surrounding community. But erosion control measures can vary by cost and effectiveness, so it's essential to choose the best erosion control method. Keep Your Construction Site Safe With Effective Erosion Control Erosion poses a threat to the ...
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Best Practices for Erosion and Sediment Control in the Transportation Industry
The transportation industry is no stranger to the topic of Erosion and Sediment Control. Although they can occur at any time during the construction of a highway, the highest potential for erosion usually occurs during the grubbing, grading and structure installation. Additional factors affecting soil erosion include soil characteristics, climate, topography, rainfall, and vegetation. Erosion ...
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Habitat Restoration – Irish Cove Brook - Case Study
Construction Date: Fall 2012 Location: Bras d'Or Lake, Cape Breton NS Category: Sand Wand™ Habitat Restoration Irish Cove Brook is located on the southeastern side of the Bras d’Or Lake, Cape Breton NS. The lower reaches of the stream are downstream of the #4 Trunk Highway, flowing through an old limestone pit that was reclaimed several years ago; the stream was not restored. ...
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Modeling BMP’s in Sensitive Areas with xpswmm - King’s Beach Watershed Improvement Project - Case Study
Introduction Located on the border of California and Nevada, Lake Tahoe (the Lake) is the largest alpine lake in North America. It is known for its scenic beauty and outstanding lake clarity. However, the clarity of the Lake has been declining since the mid-1960s because of the deposition of fine particles and nutrients from urban runoff and the growth of aquatic organisms that feed off the ...
By Innovyze
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Key Civil Construction Considerations for Oil and Gas Facilities
Oil and gas facilities play a crucial role in our nation’s economy, provide fuel and electrical power, and create the ingredients for countless petroleum-based products. With such a vital role to play, it is essential that oil and gas facilities operate at maximum productivity and safety levels. While high quality maintenance, fabrication, and industrial services are all crucial for oil and ...
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Areas Most Prone to Winter Storm Water Can Benefit from Temporary Erosion Control
Winter can be a beautiful time of year. Generally, there are nice, brief storms and maybe some snow, and everything is fine. But occasionally, we get hit hard with storms that just won’t let up, such as when it rains for days or feet of snow come down—we are left to deal with the consequences. All too often, those consequences involve too much water, despite the work put into ...
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USGS, NASA Study Finds Widespread Coastal Land Losses from Gulf Oil Spill
A new USGS-NASA study found widespread shoreline loss along heavily oiled areas of Louisiana's coast after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and compared the erosion from the spill with coastal changes Hurricane Isaac caused in 2012. A pattern of dramatic, widespread shoreline loss along Louisiana’s coast caused by the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill has been revealed by a ...
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New Maps from Old Photos: Measuring Coastal Erosion
U.S. Geological Survey scientists and their coauthors from the California Coastal Records Project have found a way to use historical aerial photographs not just to see evidence of coastal erosion, but to accurately measure how much has occurred over time. Applying a low-cost technique called “structure-from-motion” to five sets of oblique aerial photos spanning the years 2002 to ...
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Flash flooding prediction in regions of northern Vietnam using the KINEROS2 model
Flash flooding (FF) in Vietnam has become an important issue due to increasing loss of property and life. This paper investigates FF prediction using the Kinematic Run-off and Erosion model to perform comprehensive analyses to: (1) evaluate the role of initial soil moisture (θ) conditions using the Bridging Event and Continuous Hydrological model; (2) model the discharge (Q) using different ...
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Soil erosion in the riparian zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir, China
The riparian zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) has experienced substantial erosion that may severely deteriorate the reservoir ecosystem. To calculate soil erosion characteristics, field investigations have been conducted in the TGR area and 12 erosion-monitoring transects have been set in the middle TGR. The results showed that the dominating drive forces are water wave, gravity and ...
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Implementing contour bank farming practices into the J2000 model to improve hydrological and erosion modelling in semi-arid Western Cape Province of South Africa
Contour bank farming is a well-known agricultural management technique in areas which are characterised by intensive and erosive rainfalls. Contour banks are designed to reduce the flow velocity of overland flow and to intercept water before it concentrates in rills, thereby reducing the risk of soil erosion and land degradation. By their structure, contour banks noticeably impact surface ...
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Hydraulic system to ensure constant rainfall intensity (over time) when using nozzle rainfall simulators
Rainfall simulation is widely used in the laboratory and in field work to produce artificial rainfall for small-scale surface hydrology and soil erosion studies. Simulated rainfall produced by simulators must be predictable, accurate and consistent to be useful to model the related physical processes. Pressure fluctuations in the water supply system frequently cause variation in rainfall ...
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Modelling the erosive effects of sewer flushing using different sediment transport formulae
A numerical investigation to simulate the cleaning effects of successive flushes over sediment beds in prismatic channels is presented in this paper. The 1D De Saint Venant-Exner equations were used to describe the temporal evolution of the sediment bed after each flush. The predictive capacity of two sediment transport formulae was explored against experimental results from laboratory tests. ...
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A sheet erodibility parameter for water erosion modeling in regions with low intensity rain
Soil erodibility reflects the soil effect on the detachment process by rainfall and runoff; an evaluation of this parameter for single storm events was carried out using natural runoff plot data collected for two rainfall seasons in northern Iraq. The region is characterized by a semiarid Mediterranean-type climate with normal rainfall intensity below 20 mm/h and dominant sheet erosion on ...
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