Interim report on salt-water encroachment in Dade County, Florida

Recently there has been much activity in reclaiming the low-lying coastal areas of Dade County for residential use, by the addition of fill. The fill is obtained by digging canals both normal to and parallel to Biscayne Bay. The canals serve the additional purpose of providing an access to the Bay for boats. A problem needing to be considered is the effect that these canals will have on the ground-water resources. It is expected that the canals will have little effect on ground water in parts of the county distant from the coast, but their effect in coastal areas is a matter of concern. In order to predict what, may happen in the vicinity of these new canals if they are not equipped with adequate control structures, it is instructive to review what has happened in the vicinity of similar canals in the past. The U. S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Dade County, the cities of Miami and Miami Beach, the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District, and the Florida Geological Survey has collected water-level and salinity data on wells and canals in Dade County since 1939. Some of the agencies named, and others, collected similar data before 1939. Analysis of all the data shows that sea water in the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bayis the sole source of salt-water contamination in the Biscayne aquifer of the Dade County area. (PDF has 19 pages.

Biscayne aquifer in Dade and Broward Counties, Florida

The Biscayne Aquifer is the principal source of water for the heavily populated area in the vicinity of West Palm Beach and Miami. The publication of this data is timely and will assist in the intelligent development of the water resources of the area.(PDF has 64 pages

Comments: A Right to Testimony of Immunized Defense Witnesses

In 1980, the court of appeals for the Third Circuit, in Government of Virgin Islands v. Smith, held that a defendant\u27s right to evidence in a criminal trial included a right to immunity /or his witnesses. Since that time, the district court of Maryland has similarly upheld, in United States v. Lyon, a defendant\u27s right to testimony even though the witness may require immunity. This article discusses the competing interests weighing for and against defense witness immunity and suggests that once it is determined that a defendant has a right to certain testimony, it is proper to burden the government with a choice of alternatives to ensure the defendant that right

Comments: A Right to Testimony of Immunized Defense Witnesses

In 1980, the court of appeals for the Third Circuit, in Government of Virgin Islands v. Smith, held that a defendant\u27s right to evidence in a criminal trial included a right to immunity /or his witnesses. Since that time, the district court of Maryland has similarly upheld, in United States v. Lyon, a defendant\u27s right to testimony even though the witness may require immunity. This article discusses the competing interests weighing for and against defense witness immunity and suggests that once it is determined that a defendant has a right to certain testimony, it is proper to burden the government with a choice of alternatives to ensure the defendant that right

Offline searchable database

The purpose of this project was to develop a database that can be accessed on any platform regardless of operating system with or without an internet connection. Javascript, Visual Basic, NET, and HTML were used in this project

Commitment system theory:The evolving structure of commitments to multiple targets

Employees form commitments to multiple targets and the coordination of those multiple commitments has become a ubiquitous part of the contemporary workplace. However, commitments are still largely studied in isolation or in one-off combinations and current commitment theory does not account for the dynamic interrelationships among multiple commitments. To address this deficiency, we propose commitment system theory (CST). We draw upon general systems theory to depict commitment systems as malleable and interconnected structures. We present the defining elements by which commitment systems can be described and studied, develop theory regarding when commitment systems will diverge or converge over time, and discuss how taking a systems perspective resolves discrepant findings in the literature. Specifically, CST advances the commitment literature by offering an alternative perspective to explain how commitments behave as parts of larger systems. Specifically, CST accounts for (a) why and when commitments have synergistic, neutral, or conflicting inter-relationships and (b) the temporal dynamics of those inter-relationships as commitments develop, change, and dissipate. CST thus offers a new vocabulary and conceptual “toolkit” for understanding the evolving structure of commitments to multiple targets