John Dunnicliff is best known among engineers for “Geotechnical Instrumentation for Monitoring Field Performance,” a text so fundamental that it’s often simply called the Red Book. Slightly less well...
Water resources and water rights in the Southwest are legally and operationally intertwined, requiring water right administrators and hydrologists to work within state and federal legislation with...
Aligning renewable power generation with energy demand is one of the core challenges of the transition to cleaner energy. For example, solar systems tend to generate the most power in the hours around...
By 2050, an area the size of Connecticut along America’s coastline could be under water, valued at $35 billion. This has a range of implications for municipalities, in both the short and long-term...
The Upper Roberts Dam, Northampton, MA. National Dam Safety Awareness Day is held every May 31 st, the day when the South Fork Dam 14 miles upstream of Johnstown, PA failed in 1889, taking over 2,200...
If you own or manage a commercial building in New Jersey larger than 25,000 square feet, you may have received a letter from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) informing you of the...
Subsurface lithologic and geophysical data from a series of wells drilled into basin fill aquifers in the Rio Grande Rift have been used to delineate variations in thickness and extent of shallow and...
In Environment + Energy Leader, Elisabeth Hollinden updates us on the efforts to save mussels and the importance of the "liver of the river."
If you own or operate a commercial building in New Jersey larger than 25,000 square feet, you may have received a letter from the NJ Board of Public Utilities informing you of the requirement to audit...
On April 19 th, 2024, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in a press release that it will designate PFOS and PFOA, two per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), including their...
GZA has provided noise assessment and mitigation design services for years, and we’ve found increasing need for noise studies throughout the areas we serve. Primarily driven by regulatory compliance...
The New Hampshire Plating Company (NHPC) superfund site (the Site) sits on 13 acres in Merrimack, NH. Operations at the facility from 1962 to 1985 discharged an estimated at 35,000 to 60,000 gallons...