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World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2014 : water without borders : proceedings of the 2014 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, June 1-5, 2014, Portland, Oregon /

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"This collection contains 233 papers covering a broad range of current research and practice in the field of environmental and water resources engineering with a focus on trans-boundary water management. Papers from the following symposia are included: 11th Urban Watershed Management Symposium...

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Corporate Authors: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress Portland, Or., American Society of Civil Engineers (sponsoring body.), Environmental and Water Resources Institute (U.S.) (sponsoring body.)
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Reston, Virginia : American Society of Civil Engineers, [2014]
©2014.
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Congresses.
Water-supply > Congresses.
Water quality management > Congresses.
Watershed management > Congresses.
Stream restoration > Congresses.
Ecological engineering > Congresses.
Environmental engineering > Congresses.
Climatic changes.
Ecological engineering.
Environmental engineering.
Stream restoration.
Water quality management.
Water-supply.
Watershed management.
Electronic books.
Conference proceedings.
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Table of Contents:
  • Impact of Site-Scale Green Infrastructure on Volume Reduction in Combined Sewers
  • Determining Infiltration Loss of a Grassed Swale
  • Modeling Hydrologic Performance of Permeable Pavement with DRAINMOD in North Carolina and Ohio
  • Tidal Back River Greening Projects : A Case Study in BMP Placement, Performance, and Practice
  • Estimating the Time of Concentration of Overland Flow on an Impervious Surface Using a Particle Tracking Model
  • Isotopic Analysis for Characterizing Nutrient Sources in a Small Urban Nebraska Watershed
  • Field Estimation of In Situ Vegetation Resistance in Large Managed Wetlands Using Generated Waves
  • St. Louis MSD Green Infrastructure Pilot Program
  • Interim Report on the Retrofit of an Existing Flood Control Facility to Improve Pollutant Removal in an Urban Watershed
  • Influence of Meteorological Characteristics on Atmospheric Contaminant Loadings in Stormwater Runoff at an International Airport
  • Changing the Paradigm : Stormwater Management for the Greater New Orleans Area.
  • Evaluation of Retrofitted Green Infrastructure Stormwater Controls in Urban Areas Served by Combined and Separate Sewer Systems in Cincinnati, OH
  • Construction and Soil Monitoring Plan for an ET-Infiltration Rain Garden Comparison Site
  • Comparing Stormwater Control Measure Effluent Quality with Road Runoff Management in Mind
  • Evaluating the Performance of Disconnected Downspouts on Existing and Amended Lawns as a Stormwater Control Measure
  • Performance of Pervious Concrete on Runoff Reduction in Grand Forks, ND
  • Evaluating the Hydrologic and Water Quality Performance of Infiltrating Wet Retention Ponds
  • Permeable Pavement and Filterra Performance at an Amtrak Station in North Carolina, USA
  • Integrating Hydrologic and Water Quality Variability into Land-Use-Based Stormwater Load Modeling
  • Estimating Effective Permeable Areas in Consolidated Urban Watersheds Based on Satellite Image Analysis and Field Survey
  • Measured Water Detention Performance of Enhanced Green Roof Tray Systems
  • Biochar-Amended Media for Enhanced Nutrient Removal in Stormwater Facilities
  • Unsaturated 1D Hydrological Process and Modeling of Living Roof Media during Steady Rainfall
  • Phosphate Removal by Metal Cross-Linked Biopolymers
  • Engineered Injection and Extraction for In Situ Remediation of Sorbing Contaminants in Aquifers.
  • Adjoint Modeling of Contaminant Fate and Transport in Riverbank Filtration Systems
  • Evolution of a Groundwater Model over 20 Years
  • Assessment of Groundwater Vulnerability in a Coastal Region Using DRASTIC and IM-DRASTIC models : Case study of Kish Island, Iran
  • Modeling of Solute Transport in Pore Scale Sediment Beds : A Summary of Hydrodynamic Interactions Induced by Surface Wave, Bed Form, and Near Bed Turbulence
  • Increased Total Dissolved Solids, Chloride, and Bromide Concentrations Due to Sea-Level Rise in a Coastal Aquifer
  • Applications of the Green-Ampt Method across Scales
  • Evaluation of the Effect of Initial Conditions on Parameter Estimation in a Groundwater Flow and Transport Model
  • Analytical Solution for Vapor Flow to a Horizontal Well in Unsaturated Soils
  • Simplified Groundwater Modeling Approach for Quaternary Deposits in Laxemar-Simpevarp, Sweden
  • Conjunctive Use of Surface and Groundwater Resources Using System Dynamics Approach : Case Study of Namroud Dam
  • Groundwater Use in Agriculture : Approaches to Sustainable Management in U.S. Case Studies
  • Advective and Dispersive Contributions to Gas-Phase Transport in Porous Media
  • Operation of Mobile Sensors for Monitoring Municipal Drinking Water Distribution Systems
  • Challenges and Opportunities in Hydraulic Modeling during Business Transformation
  • How Does Water Distribution Design Really Work?.
  • Detection of Leakage in Pipe Networks Using Transient and Simulated Annealing
  • Optimal Water System Operation Using Successive Shortest Path Graph Algorithm
  • Long Time Simulations and Analysis of Future Scenarios for Design and Benefit Cost Analysis of Small Hydropower in Water Distribution Systems
  • Sensor Placement and Leakage Isolation with Differential Evolution
  • Leakage Calibration of Water Distribution Systems
  • Pump Scheduling for Uncertain Electricity Prices
  • Fuzzy Analysis of Pressure-Deficient Water Distribution Networks
  • Development of a Methodology to Predict the Failure of Large-Diameter Cast Iron Water Mains
  • Trunk Water Main Failure Consequence Modeling of Hydraulic Failure and Fire Flow
  • Spanning Tree-Based Algorithm for Generating Water Distribution Network Sets by Using Street Network Data Sets
  • Tradeoffs in Public Acceptance and Water Savings in Using Reclaimed Water for Irrigation Applications
  • Optimal Sensor Placement in Water Distribution Systems for Injection of Chlorpyrifos
  • Optimization of Surge Protection Devices in Water Distribution Systems
  • GA for Optimal Upgrading of Water Distribution Networks for Level-1 Redundancy
  • Assessing Model Structure Uncertainties in Water Distribution Models
  • Impact of Failure Mode, Crack Area, and Pressure on Leakage Outflow
  • Sensor Placement Optimization for Water Quality Model Calibration
  • Evaluation of Transient Scenarios on a Water Distribution Lab Model Calibrated under Steady State Conditions.
  • What Does it Take to Make Automated Calibration Find Closed Valves and Leaks?
  • Effects of Chlorine and Chloramine on Microbial Biomass and Community Structure in Model Drinking Water Distribution Systems
  • A New Integer Linear Programming-Based Design Methodology for Water Distribution Systems
  • Statistical Downscaling versus Dynamic Downscaling : An Assessment Based upon a Sample Study
  • Assessment of Change in Precipitation Frequency under Future Climate Change Conditions
  • Multisite Statistical Downscaling of Daily Precipitation Processes
  • Dynamic Equilibrium Glacier Modeling under Evolving Climate Conditions
  • Climate Change Effects on Soil Erosion from a Winter Wheat Field in Central Oklahoma
  • Incorporating Climate Variability in a Nonparametric Modeling Framework for Improving Hydrologic Predictions
  • Investigation of the Linkages between Oceanic Atmospheric Variability and Continental U.S. Streamflow
  • Inland Municipal Desalination Plants in the United States
  • Concentrate Management Practices in U.S. Municipal Desalination Plants
  • Brine Discharge Load Design and Optimization Framework for Desalination Process Using Mixing Plume Criteria and Discharge Pipe Length Augmentation
  • Study of Salinization in Shallow Aquifers in the Ada East-West Districts of Ghana
  • High-Recovery Processing of WTP and WWTP Desalination Concentrate
  • Dimensionless Criteria for Selecting Tidally Influenced Advective-Dispersive Desalination Brine Mixing Plume Characterization Models.
  • From Chow's Lab to Bypass the Time of Concentration
  • Ven Te Chow and Deterministic Hydrology
  • Chow, Froude, and Vedernikov
  • Ven Te Chow : An Outstanding Scholar
  • Methodology for IWRM for Humid Alluvial Plains
  • Water Education Foundation's William R. Gianelli Water Leaders Class
  • Education and Service to EWRI and ASCE through EWRI History and Heritage Sessions
  • New Vision for Water Resources Engineering : Beyond Vision 2025
  • Evaluation of Biofilter Denitrification with Solid-State Electron Donors
  • Ubiquitous Sensing : Potential and Pitfalls
  • Simulating Flow Changes Due to Current Energy Capture : SNL-EFDC Model Verification
  • Use of Innovative Techniques to Enhance the Hydraulic Disinfection Efficiency of Drinking Water Contact Tanks
  • Development and Implementation of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) for Measuring Water Quality
  • Improving Streamflow Reconstructions Using Oceanic-Atmospheric Climate Variability
  • Implementing CFD in the Development of a Hydrodynamic Separator for Grit Washing
  • Relating Temperature Trends to Urban Change and NDVI in Las Vegas
  • Coastal Floodplain Mapping and Evaluation Using GIS and HEC-GeoRAS Models
  • Integration of Coastal Storm Inundation Model (GSSHA) with Grid Surface and Subsurface Hydrological Model
  • Enabling Communications for Buried Pipe Networks
  • Quantifying Resilience to Coastal Flood Events : A Case Study of New York City
  • Probable Role of Anthropogenic Activities in 2013 Flood Disaster in Uttarakhand, India.
  • Climate Change Impacts on Urban Runoff in a New York City Watershed
  • LID Implementation to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts on Urban Runoff
  • Challenges of Sustainable Development and Management of Water Resources in Ethiopia
  • Real-Time Analysis of Moisture and Flow Data to Describe Wet Weather Response in a Permeable Pavement Parking Lot
  • Hydrogen Sulfide Exposure and Human-Health Risk in Mining-Impacted Regions
  • Prediction of GHG Emissions from a New Reservoir
  • Automatic Calibration of Water Quality Models for Reservoirs and Lakes
  • Permit Management: Keeping Projects in Compliance Aggressive Permit Management for New York City's Wastewater Treatment and Water Supply Capital Plan
  • Value of Forecasts in Reservoir Operations Management
  • Many-Objective Direct Policy Search in the Dez and Karoun Multireservoir System, Iran
  • Managing for Floodplains and Aquatic Species : A Framework for Multiobjective Reservoir Operations
  • Managing the Impacts of Reservoirs in the Mekong River Basin
  • Meeting Temperature Requirements for Fisheries Downstream of Folsom Reservoir, California
  • Optimizing Short-Term Operation of a Multireservoir System during Transition of Objectives and Constraints
  • Recent Southern Nevada Water History and Water Education
  • Bank Erosion of the Illinois River
  • Ecological Response of Floodplain Restoration to Flooding Disturbance : A Comparison of the Effects of Heavy and Light Flooding.
  • Impacts of the Mount St. Helens Eruption on the Columbia and Cowlitz Rivers and the Corps' Response to Date
  • Effects of the Great Missoula Floods
  • Early Exploration and Mapping of the Columbia River
  • Grand Coulee Dam History
  • Framework for Bridge Scour Measurement Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
  • Two-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of a Grand Canyon Sandbar during a High Flow Experiment
  • Riprap Design for Overtopping Man Do I Need a Martini!
  • Scaling and Self-Similarity of One-Dimensional Suspended Sediment Transport Equations
  • Evaluation of Reducing Elbow Characteristics versus Velocity Distribution at the Pump Inlet
  • Calibration of a Geophone Acoustic Sensor to Bedload Particle Mode of Transport
  • Energy Dissipation in Six-Foot Drop Broken Back Culverts under Open Channel Flow Conditions
  • Uniform Flow Development Length in a Rough Laboratory Flume
  • Quantifying Sediment Sources to the Suspended Load of an Agricultural Stream Using Radioisotopes
  • Evaluated Head of Rubble Mound Breakwater Stability with Experimental under Irregular Waves
  • Redistribution Effects on Changes in Soil Carbon Storage Potential in Intensely Managed Landscapes
  • Alternative Tile Intake Design for Tile Drainage : A Case Study
  • Experimental Study on Scale Effects in Surges Caused by Sudden Air Pocket Entrapments
  • Age of Water and Salt Exchange in the Perdido and Wolf Bay System
  • Project Feasibility Analysis : Willamette River Study.
  • Physical Model Testing and Validation of Large Long-Throated Flumes
  • Benchmark Exercise for Comparing the Computational Performance of Two-Dimensional Flood Models in CPU, Multi-CPU, and GPU Frameworks
  • Effects on Streambeds Due to Changes in Discharge and Channel Width
  • Model Studies of Semi-Permeable Rubble Mound Weirs
  • Prediction of Scouring Depth at the Outlet of Partially Blocked Box Culvert
  • MAST-1D : A Size-Specific Sediment Transport and Tracer Model with Off-Channel Storage
  • Gas Extraction from Lake Kivu : The Dynamics of the Degassed Water Plume
  • Deep Creek Streambank Stabilization : Sustainably Protecting Critical Infrastructure
  • Scour Pool Development at Countersunk Culverts
  • Sediment Transport Conditions near Culverts
  • Analysis of Maximum Probable Storm Surge at the South Texas Project Site
  • Three-Dimensional Simulation of Tidal Flow in Vegetated Marsh Area
  • Two-Dimensional Finite Volume Model for Sediment Transport in Unsteady Flow
  • Predicting Cumulative Stream Power in Ungauged, Rural Watersheds
  • Examining Seasonal Trends in Sediment Source Contributions in an Intensely Cultivated Midwestern Sub-Watershed Using Bayesian Unmixing
  • Two-Stage Raw Water Intake A Case Study of a Unique Flood Water Pump Station
  • Channel Avulsion Dynamics in Meandering Rivers
  • L-8 Flow Equalization Basin Project Converting Retired Rock Quarries for Environmental Restoration
  • Bank Stability Analysis for Fluvial Erosion and Mass Failure
  • Simulation of the Rapid Filling of a Transmission Main Undergoing Flow Regime Transition.
  • Determination of River Maintenance Need at Individual Sites and Reaches on the Middle Rio Grande, NM
  • Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of Air-Water Geyser Flows
  • Susceptibility Analysis of River Bank Erosion Based on Exposure to Shear Stress and Velocity Combined with Hydrologic and Geomorphologic Variables
  • Evaluating the Natural Development of the Meta River for Proposing Hydraulic Works Oriented to River Training for Fluvial Navigation
  • Climate Change Impacts on Rainfed Corn Production in Malawi's Lilongwe District
  • Social and Environmental Impacts of Waste Management Alternatives in India : A Critical Analysis
  • System-Dynamics Approach to Evaluate Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Iran's Zayandeh-Rud Water System
  • Bacterial Testing Plate Incubation in Developing Regions
  • Microbiological and Economic Assessment of Ceramic Pot Filters Used Long Term in Households in San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala
  • Performance Characterization of a Wind-Powered Water Pump for Use in Rural Bolivia
  • Mapping the Way : Testing Methods to Map Water Points in Developing Countries
  • Importance of Cash Contributions to the Sustainability of International Development Projects
  • Columbia River Treaty 2014/2024 : Integrating Numerical Models and HEC-WAT Plug-In Technology
  • Columbia River Treaty 2014/2024 : HEC-WAT Innovations for CRT Computes
  • Columbia River Treaty 2014-2024 : Distributed Computing for HEC-WAT/FRA
  • Columbia River Treaty 2014/2024 : Monte Carlo Simulation in HEC-WAT
  • Columbia River Treaty 2014/2024 : HEC-WAT and the FRA Compute Option.
  • Pressure Recorders : Low-Cost, Robust, Low-Battery-Use Field Measurement Techniques for Trending Water Pressure
  • What Caffeine Tells Us about Nutrient Source Apportionment in Rural Watershed Tile Drainage
  • Wetted-Perimeter-Dependent Furrow Infiltration and Its Implication for the Hydraulic Analysis of Furrow Irrigation Systems
  • Optimal Dynamic Water Allocation for Irrigation of Multiple Crops
  • Estimating Evapotranspiration from Fields with and without Tile Drainage Using Remote Sensing
  • Optimized Water Delivery to Farmers in Maduru-Oya, Sri Lanka, Using Irrigation Demands Communicated through SMS Messaging
  • Validation and Performance of Several Radiation Models in Shahrekord Plain
  • Weed-Resistant Propeller-Meter System
  • Estimating Pistachio Evapotranspiration Using MODIS Imagery : A Case Study from Ardakan, Iran
  • Implementation of New Irrigation Protocols on Strawberry Transplants on the California Central Coast
  • An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Simulate the Dynamics of Water Supply and Water Demand
  • Multiobjective Optimization to Explore Tradeoffs in Rainwater Harvesting Strategies for Urban Water Sustainability
  • Complex Adaptive System Framework to Simulate Adaptations of Human-Environmental Systems to Climate Change and Urbanization : The Verde River Basin
  • Iterative Approach to Many-Objective Engineering Design : Balancing Conflicting Objectives for Engineered Injection and Extraction.
  • Empirical Acceptance-Resistance Agent-Based Modeling Approach for Simulating the Adoption of Water Reuse
  • Application of a Water Resources Model to Assist Planning in Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District
  • Modeling Streamflow Dominated by Snowmelt in an Ungauged Basin in Northwestern China
  • Sustainable Water Supply Planning for North Central Texas : Using a Decision-Support System to Evaluate the Triple Bottom Line
  • Online Gaming for Understanding Agents' Behavior in Water-Sharing Problems
  • Flood Storage Allocation Rules for Parallel Reservoirs
  • Bayesian Model Averaging for Flood Frequency Analysis
  • Hydrologic Responses to Irrigation Management in the Wood River Basin, Klamath County, Oregon
  • Estimating the Storm Surge Recurrence Interval for Hurricane Sandy
  • Evolution of Storage Capacity in the Brazilian Hydropower System
  • Brazilian Hydrothermal System Operation : Interconnected Large System or Isolated Subsystems?
  • GIS-Based System to Better Guide Water Resources Management and Decision Making
  • Flood Hazard Reevaluation at Existing U.S. Nuclear Power Plants in Response to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Loss of Coolant Accident
  • Correlating Human Preferences and Optimized Watershed Management Plans
  • Classifying Streams on the Basis of Elevation above Mean Sea Level A Universal Approach
  • Efficacies of Centralized versus Distributed Chlorinated Treatment on Inhibiting Microbial Regrowth and Biofilm Potential for Water Distributions Systems
  • Modeling the Co-Evolution of Potable and Reclaimed Water Distribution Systems
  • Pervious Concrete : A Testing of Traits and Methodology.
  • Sustainability and Economics of Reservoir Sedimentation
  • Perspectives on Sustainable Materials and Practice in the Concrete Industry of Bangladesh
  • Keep It Local : Sustainable Storm-Water Management Methods on Urban Streets
  • Compulsion, Coercion, and Cooperation : Consumer Attitudes to Domestic Water Efficiency
  • New Finance-Based Portfolio Analysis Framework for Sustainable Energy Planning
  • The Science Not Yet Behind Wetland Policy : Ecology, Hydrology, Public Perception, and Conservation
  • Sustainable Energy Planning with Respect to Resource Use Efficiency : Insights for the United States
  • Social Sustainability and Important Indicators in Infrastructure
  • Hydro-Climate from Wake County's Perspective
  • Decision Analytic Model for Nonstationary Flood Risk Management
  • Climate Change Risk on the Water Resources Management of Himalayan Basins.
  • Evaluating the Effects of Climate Change on Water Reliability in Iran's Karkheh River Basin
  • Climate Change IMpacts on Reservoir Inflow Using Various Weighting Approaches
  • Forcing Hydrologic Model with GCM Output : Bias Correction vs. the "Delta Change" Method
  • Evaluation of an Unsaturated Flow Model for Flow Attenuation in Green Roofs
  • Challenges of Restoring an Altered Reservoir/Debris/Detention Basin to Its Maximum Potential Flood Mitigation Capacity A Case Study in Ventura County, California.
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Wastewater Treatment Plants and By-Product Operations A Comprehensive Review
  • Review of Processes and Wastewater Quality Produced in Different Ready-Made Garment Industries of Bangladesh and Their Impact on the Potential Use of Zero Liquid Discharge Effluent Treatment Plant Systems
  • Predicting Impacts of Changing Land Use/Cover on Streamflow in Ungauged Watersheds
  • Flow Rate and Sediment-Trapping Laboratory Experiments Using Various Biofilter Media
  • The North Valley Regional Recycled Water Program : Putting Title 22 Water to Beneficial Use in California's Central Valley
  • Innovative Stormwater Floating Islands as Wetland Plant Nurseries.
  • Curve Numbers for Two Agro-Forested Watersheds
  • Thermal Desalination Technologies as Alternative Options for Water Scarcity in Libya
  • Predictability of the Recurrence of the 1976-77 Dry Conditions in California Using Saros Cycles and Analogous Orbital Geometries
  • Comparison of Erosion Hotspots for Two Watersheds in Ohio
  • Implications of SRTM- and ASTER-Based DEMs on Hydrologic Responses at Various Catchment Scales
  • Identification of Safe Navigation Routes in a Remote Watershed under Extreme Storm Events Utilizing GIS and Hydrologic Models
  • Identifying Dominant Biogeochemical Processes Regarding theNitrogen Cycle in Active and Passive Zones of a Restored Wetland through WetQual Model
  • Decision Support Tool Utilizing an HSPF Watershed Model Application for the Central Big Sioux River in Eastern South Dakota
  • Rainfall and Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Curves in the United Arab Emirates
  • Prediction of Hydrologic Statistics in Nested Watersheds across the United States
  • Examining the Reliability of Hydrologic Drought-Risk Forecasting at Seasonal Timescales.