Aquifer storage systems, which bank water underground for times of need, are gaining popularity as Texas' drought drags on.

About 1,500 feet from the Housatonic River, on top of an aquifer, GE proposes to put what would be one of the largest toxic-waste dumps in New England.

Desmond Swayne, MP for New Forest West, has written a letter expressing his objections to plans to extract gravel and sand at Midgham Farm, ...

As a principal engineer for the county’s Public Works Department, Klippel’s job is to try to stop catastrophic flows of mud, ...

Ice seems temporary. It melts in a glass. It disappears at a sunbeam’s touch. It ebbs with the first relief of spring. But ...

For years, doctors have told people to stick to a low-salt diet. According to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, our waters should follow the same advice. Winters in Minnesota bring slippery ...

There’s the Upper Orchards aquifer, the Lower Orchards aquifer and what we like to call the Deep Salmon Gravel aquifer,” Mehrin Selimgir, a senior civil engineer with the city’s public works ...

Physical aquifer models are a highly effective teaching tool for ... Use the soil material selection sliders to vary the tank materials; users can choose clay, loam, sand, or gravel and compare how ...

clayey sand, gravelly clay and gravel (Figures 2C, D). These rocks are found in a sedimentary environment and are characteristic of the Douala shallow aquifer, which is composed of Mio-Pliocene sands ...

The surface soils vary in thickness and can be classified into well-graded SAND with silt and gravel (SW-SM), silty SAND with gravel (SM), silty GRAVEL with sand (GM), and sandy SILTY clay (CL-ML).

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/Office of Research and Development, Durham, North Carolina 27711, United States ...