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    tr-55 sheet flow question

    I have used the TR-55 method quite a few times for mostly large scale commercial and industrial developments in the Northeast. I generally limit sheet flow to less than 100 feet. If the application is for parking areas or curbed asphalt pavement, it is unlikely that the sheet flow distance...
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    techniques to "clean" soil contaminated with diesel fuel

    I am not an expert on this subject but I have designed a hundred or so gas stations. You did not say whether the soil was in the ground or dug out and stockpiled. I will assume for the sake of this reply that the soil is stockpiled on site and not a huge quanity. Aeration would probably take a...
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    Project Management: Whats most troublesome?

    My largest client is a multi national oil company. We do a considerable amount of work for them in the permitting and design for retail location development. I think that there has been an assumption made by clients, particularly large retail clients, that the civil engineering profession has...
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    IDF Curves

    The formulas are contained in Federal Highway Administration HEC-12 "Design of Highway Pavements", Appendix A, you can get rainfall amounts from SCS in Syracuse.  They can supply by County.  I do not know of any computer programs to develop I D F curves, but there...
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    IDF Curves

    The formulas are contained in Federal Highway Administration HEC-12 "Design of Highway Pavements", Appendix A, you can get rainfall amounts from SCS in Syracuse.  They can supply by County.  I do not know of any computer programs to develop I D F curves, but there...
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    Shop Drawings

    My advice is not to APPROVE anything. Always review only for general compliance and never approve. The word Approve has a very distinct and definitive legal meaning. Go to DPIC web site they have some very good language for shop drawing stamps.

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