http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8376 Wed, 22 May 2013 17:13:03 GMT 2013-05-22T17:13:03Z http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu:80/retrieve/40483/Leonard.jpg http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8376 http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8421 Title: Water Quality in America Since 1980: From Nitrates & Non-point to Ecosystems, Toxics and Terrorists Authors: Dworsky, Leonard B. Abstract: Selected themes through the history of water quality management paint an exciting picture of accomplishment led by innovative and committed Civil Engineers. Research results on the tools for waste management and its analytical basis, for example, allowed institutional capacity to evolve to implement them. This process continues. Currently the field is facing a number of frustrating issues ? the history of a few are summarized with some hints of how they might be resolved. For example, drinking water protection has proceeded apace, helped by a series of national initiatives and now the concern for bio-terrorism. But small, scattered systems, public or private, water supply or onsite waste disposal need attention in ways they have not in the past. Organizational challenges include who should pay. Finally we indicate some sources of further opportunity. For example, now that there is widely accepted methodology to put a dollar value on anything, when should it be used? Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8421 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8419 Title: "Add Water and Stir:" Reflections of Leonard B. Dworsky Authors: Dworsky, Leonard B. Abstract: An autobiography by the author describing his 64-year career in both government and industry, working on issues relating to water resources management, water quality, and water pollution. He describes congressional legislation and the efforts by federal, state, and local officials to manage water resources. Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8419 2002-03-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8418 Title: Western Water Policy Review Advisory Committee: An Opportunity Not To Be Lost Authors: Dworsky, Leonard B.; Allee, David J. Abstract: From the time of George Washington the American political system has struggled over whether management and administration of natural resources should be made at the national level, or at the state, regional, or local level. A graduate seminar at Cornell University in 1996 shows that centralized federal effort to plan for water and resources have not succeeded, but the benefits of comprehensive planning and management can be successfully merged into the 'real world' of federal decision making without major changes. Thu, 01 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8418 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8417 Title: Has the Time Come to Regulate Farmers: We Already Do, But How Do We Decide What Is Enough, How Clean is Clean Authors: Dworsky, Leonard B.; Allee, David J. Abstract: The wetlands issue appears to be the major focus of the farm groups who argue that restraints on the drainage of wet soils restrict output and world competitiveness in a major way for a negligible return in habitat and water quality improvement. Political stability on the wetland issue may be very hard to achieve given the very large potential capital gains from non-farmland development and the long standing animosity between waterfowl enthusiasts and farm groups. At the larger system level, the North American Migratory Water Fowl Plan responds to the relevant treaties and serves as a focal point for some impressive private support groups. The idea of municipalities trading pollution reduction opportunities with farmers who can achieve goals for streams more cheaply may provide incentives for innovation. A number of states have experimented with adding regulatory features to their conservation efforts in the name of water quality. The future expectation is that for the immediate future, state and local developments will probably take the lead in terms of innovations in regulation. Wed, 01 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8417 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8416 Title: Building the Institutional Memory for Federal Water Pollution Control Policy: Shared Goals and Incrementalism Define Trends Authors: Dworsky, Leonard B.; Allee, David J. Abstract: The reauthorization of the Clean Water Act of 1972, as amended, will be built on twenty years of national experience with that Act. Tasks ahead for the nation to revitalize planning and, thus, water quality policy that appropriately build on the historical base include, (1) the completion of the secondary treatment requirement as the equitable and attainable floor for waste reduction; (2) expanding the supplementation of that policy by implementing standards using appropriate risk management oriented criteria; and (3) plan for and implement a policy of higher water quality in appropriate basins and watersheds throughout the United States; (4) recognize the indispensable ingredient in planning that it is a process of fashioning political commitment on the part of a variety of interest groups, agencies and units of government that affect and benefit from pollution management in those basins and watersheds and not primarily a technical design process; (5) continue to expand the nonpoint source management institution building into a variety of programs of other agencies and non-water quality parts of US EPA; and (6) greatly expand the efforts to build capacity in the smallest governments who serve a majority of the landscape needing protection. Wed, 01 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8416 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8415 Title: The Nation and Its Water Resources. Chapters 1-6. Authors: Dworsky, Leonard B. Abstract: This is a special report prepared for the members of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering by Professor Leonard B Dworsky Emeritus and Professor David J Allee. Allee and Dworsky have been strongly identified with the fields of water and environmental resources. In past years they have taught CEE 529, (and others) usually in the graduate school, or in a special seminar in Resource Management. Includes a July 2005 prologue by Leonard B. Dworsky. Mon, 01 Jan 1962 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8415 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8411 Title: The Great Lakes of the United States and Canda: A Critique of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement On Its 125th Anniversary Authors: Dworsky, Leonard B.; Allee, David J. Abstract: This report has two objectives. The first is to provide a critique of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1972 between the United States and Canada on the 25th anniversary of the Agreement The broad purpose of that agreement is to protect and conserve the physical, chemical and biological integrity of Great Lakes waters within the context of an ecosystem approach to safeguard the public health and welfare of the people of both countries. A second and equal objective is to re-establish a deeper understanding and appreciation of the responsibilities of the Governments of Canada and the United States under the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 on the 88th anniversary of that Treaty. Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8411 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8406 Title: Leonard B. Dworsky Biography in the Cornell Engineering Quarterly Authors: Dworsky, Leonard B. Abstract: A feature article on Professor Leonard B. Dworsky in the Cornell Engineering Quarterly. Includes selected research projects, research, and list of published articles. Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:51:55 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8406 2007-11-01T20:51:55Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8405 Title: Announcement of the International Joint Commission Report on Great Lakes Quality Issued, Review of the Agreement Begins Authors: International Joint Commission Abstract: This announces the availability of the Twelfth Biennial Report on Great Lakes Water Quality issued by the International Joint Commission. The report includes specific recommendations on the effects of urbanization on our lakes; threats associated with invastive species; pathogens and disease bearing microorganisms in drinking water sources; chemical contamination, methyl mercury and human health; and the recent ecological changes taking place in Lake Erie. For the report, see http://www.ijc.org. Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:46:25 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8405 2007-11-01T20:46:25Z http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8404 Title: Documentary Chronology of Selected Events in the Development of the American Conservation Movement, 1847-1920 Authors: Dworsky, Leonard B. Abstract: A chronology of the history of the conservation movement in the United States from 1847 to 1857. Discusses major conservationists, literary figures, politicians, and artistis of the time. Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:29:58 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1813/8404 2007-11-01T20:29:58Z