When I worked for a "third-party inspection" firm, we hired an architect with a Master's degree in Architecture. He did not know what drywall was, nor which pipes were the water supply lines (which were copper).
When I took a pavement engineering class 30 years ago, the professor noted that if we didn't do the design correctly, it did not have very far to fall.
Use a sewer jet with a radio transmitter on the nozzle. As the jet pulls the hose down the line, one can follow the path from above by following the radio signal. Thus works much better than a tv camera because the camera does not disclose curves and bends very well.
Look in the US Army Corp of Engineer library. See http://www.usace.army.mil/library/pubserv.html
Years ago they had a technical manual on designing foundations for vibrating equipment.
Since you will be tested by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, read their material manuals. Such as Publication 19 "Pennsylvania Test Methods" or Bulletin 15 "Approved Construction Materials".
These are available on their website.
Check American Petroleum Institute's Publication 421 "Management of Water Discharges: Design and Operation of Oil-Water Separation, 1st Ed (1990). See www.api.org.
Why not put a cellulose to ethanol plant at each landfill. The garbage guys have to take the newspapers and garbage peels there any way. Therefore the cost of collection and transportation is covered by the garbage hauling contract.
There are estimates that one can get about 50 gallons of...
Gasoline is usually added to fuel-grade ethanol in order to denature it. i.e. make it bad tasting so it goes into the fuel tank and not into the employees.
The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (www.neorsd.org) maintains a network of 25 raingages. The data is not on the internet. When I worked for an eastern suburb (circa 1986), we got a printed monthly report showing rainfall at all of the raingages. Now twenty years later, it is probably all...
What aspect of waste management are you interested in?
Municipal solid waste?
Hazardous waste?
Animal Feedlot waste?
Wastewater treatment?
Waste reduction?
On Thursday, August 26, 2004, the USEPA proposed in the Federal Register, rules they believe one should follow to obtain the "Innocent landowner defense" of CERCLA. They contend the ASTM Standard for Phase I ESA is not in complete accordance with the intent of CERCLA and SARA.
