I flag tons of interesting news items over the course of a week. I usually like to summarize the article when I post about it and maybe add a photo or embed a video or something. But I don’t have nearly enough time to post everything I find.
So I’m starting a (roughly) weekly post I’ll call my Weekend Catch-Up-Post or CUP for short. In these posts, I’ll simply present a bulleted list of news items. I also created a separate category for Weekend CUPs within the GeoNews section. Enjoy!
- Taiwanese government closely monitoring two dams for landslide risks
- Tunnel Business Magazine August E-Newsletter. See below for some of the interesting stories I found from them.
- Geotechnical Baseline Reports: A Beneficial Tool, or a Scourge on the Industry?
- Plans Set in Seattle to Free Two Stuck Tunnel-Boring Machines (ENR)
- Construction worker killed when water fills tunnel
- Drilling Ordeals Said to Delay Geothermal Project – A DOE "enhanced geothermal" project in Northern California is delayed over concerns regarding the potential for inducing earthquakes in a very seismically area. Via Ontario-geofish.
- Tips for LiDAR useage and visualization with ArcGIS for geologic mapping by Kyle House at Geologic Frothings
- Remotely sensed gravity field variations show alarming and unsustainable groundwater use in northwest India – ENR
- Traffic resumes in Shaanxi after landslide blocks tunnel
- Engineers begin geotechnical construction work on Shanghai Metro
- Plans Set in Seattle to Free Two Stuck Tunnel-Boring Machines – ENR via ASCE SmartBrief
- Recent geofoam projects in Canada – via ASCE SmartBrief
- Key milestone reached in Thames Water Ring Main extension as TBM breaks through (with video) – New Civil Engineer
- Submarine landslides caused by Typhoon Morakot slow down Internet in Asia – Landslides Under a Microscope Blog
- Seven killed in Sierra Leone as landslide sees homes collapse
- 43 people killed in landslides in northern India
- Typhoon Morokat Landslides in Taiwan – Nice set of posts at On The Slide blog
- Repairs on Howard Hanson Dam in Seattle area aim to control seepage – via ASCE SmartBrief. Nicholson Construction press release confirms they are the grouting contractor.
- Mt. Soledad Landslide in La Jolla – Lawsuit pits 65 homeowners against the City of San Diego
- Karst study with GPR or ground penetrating radar might kill mega-dairy plans in Iowa
- Calif. Adds ‘Delta Tunnel’ to List of Possible Water Supply Solutions
- Test result triggers safety inspection of Warm Springs Dam (California)
- Massive TBM for Seattle Alaskan Way Viaduct Rreplacement tunnel machine will cost $50M, take 2 years to build via ASCE SmartBrief