What civil engineers are reading this week

• Understand and appeciate that every situation is different, leading engineer advises

  Sound leadership is knowing your team's competencies and adapting them to the project at hand, says Mike Jelen, executive vice president of a Washington, D.C.-area consultancy. Why is flexibility the key?

• NYC wants to move deliveries onto the waterways – starting with a 55-year-old boat

  The city’s Economic Development Corporation is launching a “blue highways” program that aims to reduce air pollution and street congestion by replacing thousands of trucks with maritime shipping.

• In New Mexico, a river runs through ‘the middle of a hellscape’

  As climate change dries the state, the Pecos River faces a growing threat as it runs through the Permian Basin oilfield.

• Michigan draws closer to enacting a state septic code

  Michigan lawmakers are the closest they’ve been in years to passing a statewide septic code that would increase inspections to guard against human waste leaking into lakes, rivers, and groundwater.

• US water systems’ hacks make it clear: Cybersecurity is a civil engineering problem

  More than 100 attempted digital break-ins affirm why engineers must merge cybersecurity into physical water system design. Think not “if,” but “when” an attack will occur, these experts say.

• More sewer diving in NYC: 5 people seen climbing out of maintenance hole

  Friday’s instance is at least the seventh time since May that people have been seen going into or exiting the sewer system in the city and on Long Island and the second on the Upper East Side in two weeks.