Repair, Evaluation, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation Research Program: Elements of Floating-Debris Control Systems
Repair, Evaluation, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation Research Program: Elements of Floating-Debris Control Systems

Author: Roscoe E. Perham

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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Floating debris is a continual problem for all users of water bodies. It is destructive to locks, dams, bridges, electric plants, municipal water systems, and even recreational boaters. Wetlands, fish-spawning grounds, and streambanks can be disturbed by debris. This report contains a summary of the various methods for collecting, controlling, removing, and disposing of floating debris. Keywords: Debris booms; Debris and ice deflectors; Debris disposal; Debris transport; Removal equipment; Trash rakes. (edc).

Effects of Debris on Bridge Pier Scour
Effects of Debris on Bridge Pier Scour

Author: Peter Frederick Lagasse

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0309118344

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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 653: Effects of Debris on Bridge Pier Scour explores guidelines to help estimate the quantity of accumulated, flow event debris, based on the density and type of woody vegetation and river bank condition upstream and analytical procedures to quantify the effects of resulting debris-induced scour on bridge piers. The debris photographic archive, the survey questionnaire and list of respondents, and the report on the field pilot study related to development of NCHRP 653 was published as NCHRP Web-Only Document 148: Debris Photographic Archive and Supplemental Materials for NCHRP Report 653.

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications

Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 1072

ISBN-13:

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February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index