hydrologic engineering News
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Mr. Eron Dodak of Integral Consulting coauthors paper in Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Mr. Eron Dodak, R.G., L.H.G., of Integral Consulting has coauthored a paper titled “Numerical Study of Bromide as a Tracer for Aquifer Macrodispersivity Tests: Comparing Conservative Behavior to Mildly Nonlinear Adsorption.” This paper demonstrates that aquifer macrodispersivity can be accurately estimated in natural gradient tracer tests using a groundwater tracer exhibiting weakly nonlinear ...
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Tetra Tech Wins $47 Million Contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources
Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources (USACE IWR) has awarded the Company a five-year multiple-award task order contract to support the USACE’s water resources management programs. The contract has a total award value of up to $47 million. Tetra Tech will support USACE IWR in its mission to identify and address ...
By Tetra Tech
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The PepsiCo Foundation Leads the Way in Social Innovation for 'Water Work'
SOURCE: PepsiCo DESCRIPTION:The social innovation work of the Columbia Water Centre (CWC) and the PepsiCo Foundation in the field of water security for the rural communities of Ceará, Brazil has been pioneering. The initiative shows the global community that water sustainability cannot be achieved in isolation and that integration of food-energy-climate goals needs to be shared. Ceara's problems ...
By 3BL Media
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Leading Flood Warning Experts Examine Extreme Weather, Climate Change Skeptics in San Diego May 9-12
Flash floods, extreme weather events and climate change are on the agenda for more than 300 leading scientists and engineers coming to San Diego for the National Hydrologic Warning Council (NHWC) conference May 9-12, 2011. These experts will share their latest forecasting and warning experiences for floods and related natural disasters, including current record-breaking flooding in the Midwest ...
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Student Paper Competition in Dam and Levee Safety - Extended Abstracts Due Feb. 11
Association of State Dam Safety Officials Student Paper Competition - Dam Safety 2011, September 25-29, National Harbor, Maryland Prizes of up to $1,500 for up to three students Extended abstracts of 1,200 words or more due by February 11, 2011 - Full papers due May 20, 2011 Free admission for all students with valid student ID The Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) is ...
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Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Partners With URS and RIZZO to Provide Seismic, Flood, External Hazard Evaluation & PRA Services
Curtiss-Wright Flow Control's business unit, Scientech, has reached an agreement with URS Corporation and with Paul C. Rizzo Associates, Inc. (RIZZO) to jointly provide seismic, flooding, other external hazard evaluation and Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) Services to the US commercial nuclear power market. These world-class organizations are working together to provide utilities with quality ...
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Sophisticated soil analysis for improved land use
Soil variation occurs across multiple geographic scales ranging from vast climatic regions of the Earth to a 50 acre farm field to the molecular world of soil nano-particles in a pinch of soil. For example, in a forest or an agricultural field, soil properties vary from the summit of a hill down to the base. Within a single soil aggregate that may be less than a quarter inch in diameter, there ...
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Everglades Protection Plan wins 2013 Growing Blue award
For its widely-lauded plan to better distribute water throughout Southern Fla., including the Everglades, the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) has won the 2013 Growing Blue Award, presented during an awards ceremony at the American Water Summit in Washington, D.C. The Growing Blue Award recognizes organizations and individuals who are advancing an understanding of how water is as ...
By Growing Blue
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Weston Expands Water Resources and design services with acquisition of Resource Technology, Inc.
Weston Solutions, Inc. (WESTON®), a leading environmental, redevelopment, and construction firm, today announced the acquisition of Resource Technology, Inc. (RTI). RTI is a New Mexico-based small and minority-owned water resources, civil engineering and landscape architecture design firm. The acquisition of RTI significantly expands WESTON’s portfolio of solutions in its water resources and ...
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Water Energy Innovations White Paper Highlights the Economic, Environmental and Electric Reliability Benefits of Using New, Efficient Gas Engines for Water Pumping
Water Energy Innovations, Inc. today announced the release of a new white paper, "The Role of Natural Gas in California’s Water-Energy Nexus." California has been considering the intriguing possibilities presented by its water-energy nexus since 2005. Prior studies about energy use by the state’s water and wastewater agencies focused on electricity. This is the first paper to address ...
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VO-SWMM Software debuts with a reliable dual-drainage engine
November 9th 2020 – Smart City Water Inc. (SCW), a Water and Drainage Software Platform is excited to announce the launch of VO-SWMM, a robust tool that combines the capabilities of the EPA-SWMM and OTTHYMO to form a reliable hydrology and hydraulic modelling engine. Water and drainage engineers in need of insights in water and drainage management have new software for their toolbox with ...
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McGurk Hydrologic joins as an Affiliate Member
KISTERS North America, Inc., a leading provider of advanced hydrological data management tools, announces the addition of McGurk Hydrologic as a key affiliate of KISTERS North America. McGurk Hydrologic provides runoff forecasting, hydrologic simulation modeling, environmental review, and water and land management services to a wide range of clients across the US. They also provide hydrologic ...
By KISTERS
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USGS partners with UA to build hydrologic instrumentation facility
The U.S. Geological Survey is partnering with the University of Alabama to construct a new Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility, a science and engineering facility that will support the agency’s Water Enterprise observing networks and research. Built on the northern end of campus, the HIF will support training, repairs, and calibration for hydrological equipment that monitors ...
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NCAR Advances Weather Research Capabilities With IBM Supercomputing Technology
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) today announced that IBM (NYSE: IBM) will install critical components of a petascale supercomputing system at the new NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC). The company was selected following a competitive open procurement process. The IBM components consist of a massive central resource for file and data storage, a high performance ...
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OriginOil Selects Award-Winning Engineering Firm for Product Rollout
OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to extract oil from algae and an emerging leader in the global algae oil services industry, today announced it has selected Pacific Advanced Civil Engineering, Inc. (PACE) of Fountain Valley, California, to fast-track the rollout of its line of Single Step Extraction™ systems in response to immediate customer demand. "We ...
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