I am working with a municipality to improve an intersection and a drainage issue at the intersection. At the intersection is an inlet with a frame and grate. However the structure is a large concrete box, almost like a septic tank, instead of a typical manhole structure. The frame and grate...
While I have designed many ponds for storm water control such as detention/retention ponds, I have been asked for the first time to design a pond for recreational purposes. It is basically a small farm pond in extreme northeast GA (silty clay soils) in which the owner wishes to stock with...
I am working on an erosion control plan for construction within a national forest. It would seem that at some point silt would dissipate before reaching a creek or stream if it is a certain distance from the construction. Could there be a rule of thumb based on the distance, slope and...
I have been asked to come up with a solution to what looks like settlement in a road. This road is less than a year old and already has severe cracking and grade depressions in the majority of the 'fill side' of the road. My instinct tells me that the fill might not have been compacted...
A city has asked me to design a culvert to replace one that they say is in "bad shape". I look at the culvert and it is a cm arch culvert with concrete walls for footings and a concrete bottom. Its diameter is equivalent to 8' and is under a busy road, in a flowing stream. The problem seems...
