The Devil’s Slide Tunnels that bypass a landslide prone stretch of California coast will not open until late 2012, a full year later than anticipated according to Caltrans. The tunnels broke through back in October, […]
A drill rig had some type of failure or malfunction in Brooklyn NY, and showered pedestrians with golf ball sized rocks, earth and debris. There are few details on the incident or the type ow […]
Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration has teamed up with the Indonesian-based Bakrie Group to develop an international initiative called the Bakrie Initiative in Geological Hazards to support and promote research in […]
He is a professor emeritus of the University of Wyoming, and… He is a co-author of the 2010 FHWA manual "Drilled Shafts: Construction Procedures and LRFD Design Methods" and the author of NCHRP Synthesis 360, […]
The US Army’s 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, Special Troops Battalion has been testing the Husky Mounted Detection System at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The vehicle is equipped with ground penetrating radar […]
This is kind of interesting. The equivalent of the Oregon Geologic Survey, DOGAMI, has a geologic hazard map of the state that the City of Newport has used as the basis for a geologic hazard […]
The new route for Washington State Route 410 will go around the toe of the Nile Valley landslide. The 2009 Nile Valley landslide blocked the highway and diverted the Naches River. The DOT selected the […]
What about the BART you may be wondering. Well, the Bart is not really a tunnel but a precast tube that was sunk and rests on the bottom of the bay. This water supply tunnel […]
Accelerated flow testing of geosynthetic drains – Source: Geosynthetics Army using ground-penetrating radar to look for Agent Orange at Korea base – Source: Stripes Flooding steers clear of Moab uranium pile – Source: The Salt […]
The Martis Creek Dam is just outside of the town of Truckee California with a population of 16,000 people, but it is also upstream about 35 miles from Reno, Nevada the gambling town with a […]
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