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    Estimating Evaporation from Resevoir

    Historical local climate record data is publicly available at the UN and NOAA, which can used to get an general estimate for the exercise you want. It seems the rainy/wet season lasts somewhere from Nov-Dec to Mar -April depending on the year. So I would expect a typical rainy/wet season to...
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    ANSI STANDARDS FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING DRAWINGS PLANS?

    You mean the National Cad Standards? or the National Engineering Handbook Link standards? or the USACE A/E/C Cad Standards? Your company should already have drafting standards that are geared specifically for illustrating plans according to your discipline. Does everyone in your outfit do their...
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    Buried Utilities-Locator Tape/Wire

    It should be dictated by your local city/county water & sewer specifications, something like “all distribution and transmission system piping and appurtenances shall have a continuous reinforced copper tracer wire secured to the pipe to prevent separation during and after installation...”. If...
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    EIT certification nearly required for civil engineering work?

    norr6125 Listen actually, you would be allowed to take the FE exam!! NCEES does allow people who have degrees that arenot from an ABET-accredited programs to sit for their respective exam. However, you would have to pay to have your entire educational history evaluated, which includes all...
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    Accounting for Detention in Hydrology Modeling

    It seems you are asking for a modified version of the USGS regression equations that take into account temporary detention storage?
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    Minimum time of concentration

    Tc can vary between pre and post, within the same watershed POI. IDF curves are intended as use in reasonable basis for design, (FDOT, Drainage Hydrology Handbook, 2012). "For drainage calculations, it is desirable to divide the storm into convenient time increments and to determine the average...
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    Earthwork 3d Cad Import Scaling Help

    Surveys are normally done in feet on state plane coordinates and most engineers set up the siteplan straight from the survey file. However, I have seen architects that setup their siteplan base cadd file in "inches" because they normally dimension objects in an architect scale format. When we...
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    MS Environmental Enginering

    I see your confusion here. The groups of Academia and private sector will each have varying opinions on the value of a MS. Each has their pros and cons. The thesis option really only is important if you want to focus on research, specialize in one specific area, maybe pursue a phd at some point...
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    Civil/Environmental Eng. self study

    Hello revots So what made you want to try Environmental? Since this is self-study, is there a particular specific area that interests you (air, water, waste, soil, energy)? Would you want to include you electrical background in it? The following are books that I used previously in class, read...
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    Stormwater management in & around Coastal Regions

    Twinkie They are more closer to 20 year old. TerryScan The most I can find is that Supra was made by Supra Engineering Software. I located a couple engineering companies that listed it as part of their modeling packages that they use on their websites. Which had originally led me to believe...
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    Stormwater management in & around Coastal Regions

    Thank you all much for the responses, I like the idea of utilizing backflow preventers for the pipes. I will make sure to pay close attention to surcharges. TerryScan The other day I pulled the records for the proposed site. Apparently some other engineers had previously done some preliminary...
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    Stormwater management in & around Coastal Regions

    We are doing a new residential subdivision in a coastal region. My supervisor is thinking of using ditches to convey some of the stormwater with some ponds here & there. However the land is very flat where the average elevation is 6-7 feet above sea level. Is this a wise thing to do? Have...
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