Net gains

Article Abstract:

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.

Practice, Web sites (World Wide Web), Web sites, Civil engineering

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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.

Texas, Pipe lines, Pipelines, Innovations, Water-supply engineering, Water supply engineering, Houston, Texas

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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.

Brief Article, Drinking water, Storage, Aquifers, Des Moines, Iowa

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