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    Florida SFWMD Rainfall Distribution

    Hi, Does a 24 hour SFWMD rainfall distribution exist? I can only find the 72 hour SFWMD distribution and ICPR only has the 72 hour storm. Thanks.
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    Fiber New Construction Design Pricing

    Hi, I am a civil engineer with roadway/land development background. I am getting an opportunity to submit pricing for design of new fiber facilities through a very large territory (continuing contract basis). This will involve plan & profiles, DOT/local permitting, etc. It will not involve...
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    Single Hydrant Flow Test

    Hi, I need to get the available fire flow on a dead end line with one hydrant at the end. At the tap of this dead-end line is a fire backflow preventer. Since there is only one hydrant, we don't have a gauge hydrant. The fire contractor did a "single hydrant" flow test, which I've never seen...
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    Water System Design (Well) for Commercial Bathroom

    Hi, I've been asked to do the "design plans" for the domestic water system for a commercial bathroom (one sink, one toilet). Problem is I've never done anything but water distribution design for public utilities. It is a public project and this is at a bus stop in the mountains of Colorado...
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    Accounting/time tracking/job costing software

    I recently left a firm that used Deltek Advantage for Accounting, Billing, Time Tracking, Job Costing, etc. I really liked it. Now I've joined a firm that uses an older version of Quickbooks. It's just not comparable to Deltek. Lots of spreadsheets, importing/exporting, etc. Not...
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    Own my own firm, want to get 2nd job

    I have a (now) one-man civil engineering firm in FL that rode the wave up and rode the wave down in the real estate boom. My clients are almost all land owners/developers. Needless to say, I'm fighting to keep the doors open. I am now sending out my resume and interviewing with other...
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    Truck Well Design

    I have a client that needs a truck well designed. He needs a 48' long flat bottom and accepts 53' long trailers. What grade can I get away with for the sloped part of the truck well?
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    Grading Plans in Texas

    Hi All, I'm a SW Florida-trained engineer doing my first job in Texas, which is a small bank site. Where I work in Florida, it is so flat that we never use contour grading, just spot elevations. I need your expertise on babying me through the proper way to produce a grading plan using...
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    Farm Ditch

    Hi Guys, It seems I've been using stormwater modeling programs for too long now and I can't figure out how to do something that should be simple. Here' the problem. I have a 80 acre project that is currently being farmed. When the property was purchased a few years ago it had a ditch running...
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    water main sewer main conflict

    I have a project currently under construction that included a gravity sewer extension across 2 adjacent properties to get to the subject property. This gravity sewer main is (will be) located in an appropriate easement adjacent to a road right of way. The right of way did not have room to...
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    LOMA/LOMR-F

    I've been asked to apply for a LOMA or LOMR-F (don't know yet) for a single family lot in Florida. What is the going rate for this? I'm not doing the survey but I am certifying it as an engineer and coordinating the submittal.
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    Roadway Elevation vs. Existing Grade

    I live in South Florida where we fill 99% of the time (low lying areas, high water table). Minimum roadway elevations are based on design storms. For those of you that work elsewhere, where water table and flood elevations aren't an issue, how do you determine roadway elevations vs. existing...
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    Pavement Design

    I'm a civil engineer that focuses mainly on site development. I am interested in learning about roadway pavement design as it relates widening existing roads,etc. General questions like "when do you mill, when do you overlay, how do you widen roads and use as much as you can from the exiting...
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    SCHOOL pavement marking

    Hi, I have a situation where I have to add a school crossing. I have to add the "SCHOOL" marking with the white line above and below it (you've all seen it). My question is, do you just put that marking on the through lanes, or on the turn lanes also?
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    right turn lane on lane shift to accomodate left turn lane

    I'm not a traffic engineer so bear with me. I want to put in a southbound right turn lane on a 2 lane road. This right turn lane will be along an existing lane shift (approach lane shift) for a northbound left turn lane located to the south of us (both turn lanes for same entrance). Is this a...
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    Grading sites/road in "non-Florida"

    I'm an engineer in SW Florida where everything is flat, flat, flat. Every job requires fill. I think I've worked on one project in 10 years that had a cut. I spent this past weekend in the GA mountains and marveled at the site engineering involved in sites that weren't flat like I'm used to...
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    Chain-Link Fence Across Spillway

    Hi, I inherited a project that requires something I've never had to do before. One of the agencies is requiring us to fence in a 10 acre wet pond because of steep sideslopes (not my design). This is fine, except there is a 75' wide spillway that discharges into this pond. The spillway is...
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    Storm Sewer Replacemnt

    Hi, I have the task of figuring out what do in a precarious situation. There is an existing residential subdivision in which the existing storm sewer (old metal pipes) needs to be replaced. A lot of these pipes are running between houses that are 12' apart. Pipe sizes range from 15" to 48"...
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    Storm Sewer for Industrial Park

    I'm designing a 90 acre industrial park with a maximum impervious for each lot at 83.3%, obviously very high. The project will discharge to one large wet pond and outfall to an adjacent off-site ditch. The roads will be private rural section with 2.25 deep swales to accomodate both road runoff...
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    multiple lift stations

    I have a project that involves manifolding a new force main into an existing force main system with multiple lift station on it. What are everyone's thoughts on accounting for the existing stations. For example, what assumption do you make on what stations are pumping at the same time, etc...

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