Innovative interconnection

The San Antonio Water System (SAWS) has constructed a nearly two-mile-long, 60-inch diameter pipeline in order to delay upgrading one water recycling center, the Leon Creek Water Recycling Center (WRC), while maximizing its investment in a larger one, the Dos Rios WRC, by conveying flows from the smaller plant to a major pipeline that ultimately terminates at the larger facility. Included in the new pipeline, known as the Leon Creek WRC Interconnect, is an aerial crossing of a local creek, which necessitates design components in order to protect the pipeline during flood events. In order to minimize changes to the waterway's floodplain elevation, careful modeling of the creek's postconstruction hydraulic and hydrologic conditions is also necessary.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.civilengineering-digital.com/civilengineering/october_2013?pg=55#pg74
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/10480594
• Authors:
  • Vergara, Marisa
  • Marazzini, Josh
  • Wouters, Jeff
  • Young, Wesley
• Publication Date: 2013-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: pp 72-77, 81
• Serial:
  • Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 83
  • Issue Number: 10
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0885-7024
  • Serial URL: http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/newce/html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Design; Flood protection; Innovation; Water pipelines
• Identifier Terms: San Antonio Water System
• Uncontrolled Terms: Water recycling
• Geographic Terms: San Antonio (Texas)
• Subject Areas: Design; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Pipelines; I26: Water Run-off - Freeze-thaw;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01497074
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Oct 29 2013 10:10AM