Wind, water, and waves erode billions of tons of soil from the earth’s surface. As a result, many rivers are plagued with excessive amounts of suspended sediment. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, such eroded sediment is the largest nonpoint source pollution in the environment.
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Engineering and business scholars urged Bush administration officials to take a page from FDRs New Deal and invest in infrastructure.
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The U.S. Dept. of Transportation is providing a total of $679 million to help states repair and rebuild roads and bridges damaged by Hurricanes Ike and Gustav and Midwest floods and earlier storms.
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Original designers of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis likely neglected to calculate the size of key gusset plates that eventually failed, a human mistake that culminated 40 years later when 13 people died after the span collapsed, federal safety investigators have found.
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A division of the construction and engineering company URS Corp. is giving Boise State University researchers $150,000 to find ways to better monitor contaminants in air, water and soil.
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This semester, the Department of Engineering will commence a new graduate program that focuses on transportation engineering. The university’s first two transportation engineers, Adel W. Sadek and Qian Wang of the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, will run the preliminary program.
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More than 8,000 construction jobs have been lost or are under threat due to the economic slowdown, the Construction Employers’ Federation (CEF) has said.
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The Democratic candidate for president says revitalizing the nation’s transportation network and waterways not only will improve the U.S. infrastructure, it could give a lift to the nation’s sagging economy.
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With major grants from the Federal Highway Administration ( FHWA ), a team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) has designed and built four innovative, experimental bridges on the state’s roadways during the past eight years, with a fifth project now wrapping up in St. Croix County.
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The $600 rebate checks provided by the federal stimulus package earlier this year may have been popular among taxpayers, but many economists think any future effort should focus on infrastructure spending and other targeted measures.
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