- Haiti One Year On… – Source: Natural Hazard Media Monitoring
- Design change to again delay Lake Mead project – Source: ReviewJournal.com via AGC SmartBrief
- Family member receives $100,000 for Logan, UT landslide loss – Source: Cache Valley Daily
- Jorhat prof. patents anti-quake project in Japan – Source: The Telegraph India
- GMA at TRB on EPA and coal ash geosynthetic liner use – Source: Geosynthetics Magazine
According to the GMA, proposed rules requiring use of geosynthetic clay liners for ash disposal could mean $350M for the geosynthetics market. - DelDOT Statement In Response To MACTEC – Source: Salisbury News
- Seattle concerned about viaduct tunnel ground loss – Source: Seattle Times Newspaper via ASCE SmartBrief
- An Update on the Nuclear Energy Industry in the US – Source: New York Times via Ontario-geofish
Geologic Hazards
Haiti Earthquake
The magnitude 7.0 earthquake in the impoverished nation of Haiti has clearly had devastating consequences. I don’t know what I can add in terms of useful information except perhaps to point interested readers to these additional sources of information. This is truly a heart-breaking situation. Click through for the links. (Photo by UNDP Global)
Press Releases
MACTEC Rejects Allegations Made in Delaware Department of Transportation Lawsuit
ALPHARETTA, Ga.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In response to a Jan. 28th lawsuit filed by the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) in connection with the Indian River Inlet Bridge (IRIB) replacement project against bridge design firm Figg Bridge Engineers, Inc. (Figg), MACTEC, a sub-consultant to Figg, denies the allegations in the lawsuit and cites DelDOT’s actions, project management, and decision-making as the factors that led to increased costs for the bridge. MACTEC is confident that a truly objective, fact-based review of the chronology of events, DelDOT’s responsibilities, and DelDOT’s decisions, including withholding of key information from Figg and MACTEC with the approval from the highest level in DelDOT, will result in dismissal of the complaint.
[Editor] For the rest of MACTEC’s press release, click through. [/Editor]
Weekend CUP
Weekend CUP for April 20, 2010
New images of the Attabad landslide – Dave’s Landslide Blog Southern California Quake Damaged Treatment and Storage Infrastructure – ENR: Engineering News Record Eyewitness Account of Chile Devastation in COPRI Blog – ASCE Team in […]