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GEO STRATA MARCH/APRIL 2010.Indd Plus… Geo-Strata: A Decade of Delivery March/April 2010 Levees At Risk We build the barriers that keep clean water clean. Grout Curtain, McCook Reservoir Stage I Chicago, IL The support you need to protect your vital resources. The McCook Reservoir will store the wastewater overflow that would otherwise threaten the City of Chicago’s drinking water. To create a seal in the fractured limestone around the reservoir, Nicholson constructed a grout curtain using its computerized GROUT I.T. system which measures, records and graphically displays grouting parameters in real time. At Nicholson Construction Company, we specialize in deep foundations, earth retention, ground treatment and ground improvement techniques that help you achieve your project 1-800-388-2340 goals. Nicholson...the support you need. nicholsonconstruction.com DEEP FOUNDATIONS EARTH RETENTION GROUND TREATMENT GROUND IMPROVEMENT Micropiles • Caissons • Driven/Drilled Piles • Augercast Piles Tiebacks • Excavation and Drainage • Sheet Piling Rock / Soil Nailing • Grouting • Bridges and Complex Structures Concrete Foundations • Lock and Dam Construction Steel Erection • Demolition/Brownfields Redevelopment 1000 John Roebling Way • Saxonburg, PA 16056 Office: 724-443-1533 • Fax: 724-443-8733 www.braymanconstruction.com Features May/June 2008 January/February 2007 VOLUME 14 l ISSUE 2 Geo-Strata 19 Geo-Strata: A Decade of Delivery By James L. Withiam, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, M.ASCE and Linda R. Bayer, IOM FIGURE 3 Hurricanes: Geotechnical Condition Assessments Lessons Learned Excavation sites based EM3 anomalies. The broad low-weak 24 What’s In Your Levee? 19 anomalies are associated with beaver dens, and the high- By Mara Johnson, Ph.D., and Louise Pellerin, Ph.D. contrast anomalies depict utility pipelines. 30 Fast-Track Repairs of Critical Levee Erosion Sites Lowest Known Den By Sujan Punyamurthula, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE and Loren Murray, P.E., M.ASCE 36 Characterizing the Seismic Threat to California’s Conductivity Water Supply Highest By Scott J. Brandenberg, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, Jonathan P. Stewart, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, and Robb E.S. Moss, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE Utility Utility 40 Geotechnical Evaluation of California Central Valley Urban Levees Detected Den 24 By Richard Millet, P.E., G.E., F.ASCE, Juan Vargas, P.E., and Mike Inamine, P.E. 44 So, You Live Behind A Levee! By Lawrence H. 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Steiner, P.E. 16 Commentary: Making Levees Safer by Hedging Our Bets By Kim Tremaine, R.P.A., John Lopez, and Chris Groves, P.E., G.E. 22 GeoPoem 46 GeoCurmudgeon 48 CoreBits 46 WHO’S WHO AT GEO-STRATA EDITORIAL BOARD 2010 G-I BOARD OF G-I STAFF ADVERTISING GOVERNORS SALES MANAGERS James L. Withiam, Ph.D., P.E. , D.GE Debra F. Laefer, Ph.D. Linda R. Bayer, IOM University College of Dublin D’Appolonia Edward Kavazanjian, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, Manager and Production Jennifer Wirz 011.353.86.343.3088 412.856.9440 President [email protected] 214.291.3652 [email protected] [email protected] Jean-Louis Briaud, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, Past Suzanne Davenport Ellen Tucker William K. Petersen, P.E. N. Catherine Bazán-Arias, Ph.D., P.E. President Content Coordinator 214.291.3661 DiGioia, Gray & Associates, LLC URS Corporation [email protected] Larry P. Jedele, P.E., Vice-President 412.372.4500 ext. 119 215.390.2157 Erin Ladd [email protected] Dianne Vance, CAE [email protected] Philip G. 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ADDRESS CHANGES: ASCE/G-I members should e-mail [email protected], or click on “My Profile” at asce.org. Copyright © 2010 by the American Society of Civil Engineers. All rights reserved. Materials may not be reproduced or translated without written permission from ASCE. Periodicals postage paid at Herndon, VA, and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Geo-Strata, 1801 Alexander Bell Drive, Reston, VA 20191-4400. 4 Geo-Strata l geoinstitute.org Departments Letters to the Editor November/December 2009 Highlights of November/December 09 ORGANIZATIONAL GeoFlorida 2010 Geo-Strata MEMBERS The commentary: “Rock and AECOM Soil” and the article titled “The Anderson Drilling Importance of Discontinuities” Ardaman & Associates, Inc. are really refreshing in terms of Brayman Construction Corporation A Look at Rock their educative and application CH2M Hill Mechanics relevance. The distinction between Con-Tech Systems, Ltd. rock and soil has been defi ned in D’Appolonia simplistic way by illustrations. DBM Contractors, Inc. DGI-Menard, Inc. I would like to share and quote the defi nition of rock ECS Limited as stated in the Principles of Petrology by G.W.Tyrrell as Ellington Cross follows: “Rocks can be defi ned in two ways, i.e., as units Fudo Construction, Inc. of the earth’s crust, and, therefore, as documents of earth’s Fugro Consultants LP history; or as specimens with intrinsic characters. Rocks GRL Engineers/Pile Dynamics have been further defi ned as more or less defi nite units Gannett Fleming, Inc. constituting the earth’s crust, but in popular usage the term Geocon Incorporated rock denotes any hard, solid material derived from earth. In Geokon, Inc. the entire process of transformation of rocks from igneous, Geopier Foundation Company sedimentary and metamorphic types, soil is generated.” Geo-Solutions, Inc. GeoStructures, Inc. I am sure these articles will bridge the gap between Geosyntec Consultants applied geology and civil engineering, and engineering Geotechnology, Inc. geology will not become oblivious, rather it will become GEOTEKNIK AS obvious. The articles also emphasized the importance of Golder Associates Inc. illustrations in conveying the message that engineering Hayes Drilling, Inc. geology is an important subject in the fi eld of infrastructure. Hayward Baker Inc. Insulfoam The articles also indicate that visuals sometimes are Kleinfelder, Inc better tools than texts. While doing my Ph.D., I submitted Layne GeoConstruction two sets of theses, one with many pages of complex Loadtest, Inc. equations of Kedam–Katchalsky, Darcy Law, Reynolds, etc., McKinney Drilling Company and the other with simple illustrations comparing rock Moore and Taber with tooth, as both have hyroxyapatite. To my surprise, Moretrench the Ph.D. was awarded on the basis of the page on which NTH Consultants, Ltd. I had illustrated (hand drawn) the similarity between rock Nicholson Construction Company and tooth. The other group which has well defi ned rocks RADISE International, L.C. is “Rolling Stones.” This incident reminded me of the Rembco Geotechnical Contractors, Inc. common denominator between my Ph.D. award and the S&ME Inc. award I received during my school days when I used paints Schnabel Engineering to make scientifi c models. Conclusions can be drawn that Schnabel Foundation Company Strata Systems Inc. illustrations/visuals have better impact on readers than Terracon, Inc. complex mathematical equations. Terra Insurance Company Thompson Engineering, Inc. Once again many thanks to Professor Hebert H. Einstein. URS Corporation ZETAS Zemin Teknolojisi A.S. Vijay Chaudhry Retired (Scientist) Give your organization the G-I advantage. Delhi, India 1110092. To join, go to www.geoinstitute.org. 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