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Looking for fill height tables for plain steel pipe. Pipe will be used as a casing.

Existing sanitary sewer main with approx. 12 feet of cover. Proposed project will increase cover to approximately 22 feet, which will exceed the pipes recommended maximum cover. Any recommendations on ways to exceed typical maximum recommended cover on pipes?

Any details available for or advice regarding a flow splitter? Proposed sewer extension needs to drain into two existing branches of an existing gravity sewer network. Flow must be split. Any experience with this?

Any good sources of design criteria (or suggestions) for grading a vehicular access for an ambulance at a medical center? I'm referring to the area where an ambulance would park while it unloads its patients and the manuvering area for the gurney. Maximum allowable grades?

Here's a link to a WSDOT discussion on the matter: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/fasc/EngineeringPublications/Design/DesignClearZone.pdf It is also discussed in Chapter 4 of AASHTO "Green Book" under Horizontal Clearance to Obstructions.

Is there a function (routine, lisp, etc.) that will add up the lengths of selected objects? For quantity calculations it would be nice to be able to select a group of lines/arcs or pline and have ACAD sum the lengths.

Yes. It doesn't allow me to manipulate the information. Thanks for responding. Any other thoughts are appreciated.

I would appreciate any help locating a tool that would allow me to export CTB parameters to an Excel spreadsheet. I have tried to utilize tableprint7.exe and tableprint8.exe (AutoCAD support), but they consistently crash. Any silver bullets?

Utilizing Xclip on excessively large xreferences can reduce the processing time when regenerating your file. Pick a workable boundary on the xreference and clip to that boundary. It will speed things up if your reference files are the problem.

Cameron Hydraulic Data by Ingersoll-Dresser Pumps Handbook of Steel Drainage & Highway Construction Products by American Iron and Steel Institute

Stick with concrete. Asphalt reduces construction costs, but I can't think of any other benefit. REDUCED R/W WIDTHS As I recall, at a 35 mph design speed vertical concrete curb has a minimum clearzone requirement of 1.5 to 2 feet; by comparison clear zone for a rolled edge is 10 feet. With an...

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/hydpub.htm

See Volume 12, Number 7, (July 1986) "OpFlow" (A monthly AWWA publication). "Sizing and Selecting Modern Water Meters"

http://www.hydromatic.com/ SHEF40 is a pretty common pump used for effluent in low head situations.

It's been my experience that employers who find this sort of contract necessary lack the positive incentives that would keep a good employee. I suspect they're probably a "revolving door" company, who can't keep employees because they're an unhealthy business. However, if you're...