Water & Dams
Water & Dams

News and features about water quality, sewage systems and water control, including dams, levees and the social and economic complexity of protecting people from flooding and storm surges in the era of climate change.

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10/24/08 Public Input Session Smolders With Discontent Toward the Corps

Distrust of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dominated a recent meeting on proposed actions for permanent pump structures at New Orleans' three outfall canals.
10/22/08 Corps Awards $341-million Fix for High-Risk Dam in Kentucky
A notice to proceed has launched a 48-month construction project to halt seepage threatening to undermine Wolf Creek Dam at Jamestown, Ky., on the Cumberland River in south central Kentucky
10/22/08 Science Report Calls for Change in Federal Stormwater Rules
The National Research Council is calling for "radical change" in federal stormwater rules to reverse what it claims are overly degraded fresh- water sources that violate the Clean Water Act goal of "fishable and swimmable" waters.
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10/15/08 Financing Is Endangered For Turkey's Ilisu Project
10/15/08 Nine States Sue EPA Over Rules To Ease Water Transfer Scrutiny
10/15/08 Lawsuit Possible Over Cracks At $146-Million Tampa Project
10/08/08 New Breach-Repair Technique Show Promising Results
10/08/08 Biennial Report Finds Little Progress, Many Hindrances
09/24/08 Outfall Pipe Floated and Sunk For Washington State Plant
09/17/08 California's San Vicente Dam To Be Raised 117 Ft
09/10/08 Corps and Private Sector Reach An Agreement on Texas Project
08/27/08 Burec Project Targets Southwest
08/25/08 Ames Team Wins Big Contract For California System
08/20/08 Court Agrees To Decide Issue Critical to Role of Lake Lanier
08/13/08 Washington State Toughens Standards of Water Runoff
08/06/08 Soils-Testing Contract Sets Grandest Scope
08/06/08 Heavy Work Load Strains Resources
08/06/08 Rapid Response Bolsters Structures at Risk of Collapse
08/06/08 Post-Flood Sandbags Reassigned
08/06/08 Shattered-Rock Systems Provide New Water Resources
07/23/08 Tiny Endangered Fish Adds to Southern California Water Woes
07/23/08 New Orleans Levee Board Funds Review of Corps Work
07/18/08 Worrisome Seepage at New Orleans Breach Repair Draws Outside Review
07/16/08 Great Lakes Water Deal Reached
07/09/08 New Project To Tap Ohio River
07/07/08 Ten Minutes with Professor Gerry Galloway on The Midwest Floods
07/02/08 Everglades Land Deal Changes the Plan
06/25/08 Land Deal Is Big Break For Everglades Restoration
06/25/08 Lessons of 1993 Pay Dividends in 08
06/18/08 Midwest Staggers Back From the Flood
06/11/08 China Battles 'Quake Lakes'
06/11/08 Overflowing Lake Carves a Breach and Drains Away
06/11/08 "My Name is Levee, and I Have Risk"?
06/11/08 Painful Lesson of Katrina Spreads Across the Land
06/06/08 Engineers Dig Channel To Drain Lake
06/04/08 Channel Is Dug, Not Blasted, To Drain China's Quake-Spawned Lake
06/04/08 Warnings of a Looming Funding Gap for Repairs
06/04/08 Dispute Over Big Reservoir Heads to Mediation this Month
06/04/08 Gulf Coast Defenses Are Up, But Risks Remain in Areas
05/30/08 Hurricane Defenses Are Going Up, But So Is Complacency
05/28/08 Georgia Streamlines Agencies To Promote Reservoir Builds
05/28/08 Troops Blast Lake Drainage As Aftershocks Rock China
05/27/08 Sinkhole Collapse Lands Firm in Deep Water
05/22/08 Los Angeles Maps $1-Billion Water Conservation Program
05/21/08 Beleaguered Board Sets Precedent: Levee Trees Must Go
05/21/08 Temblor Was Stronger Than Anticipated
05/16/08 Beleagured Board Comes Down For Precedent: Trees on Levees Must Go
05/14/08 Desalination Plant for London
05/08/08 San Diego Water Board Votes To Raise San Vicente Dam
05/07/08 U.K. Awards Tidal-Dam Study
05/07/08 U.S. Inks Levee-Fence Pact
05/07/08 Study Supports Desalination
05/07/08 Modified Waters Plan Awaits Public Comments To Advance
04/30/08 Security Is High Priority
04/30/08 Treated Effluent Eyed For Heating and Cooling Buildings
04/25/08 Corps Urged to Raise Volume On New Orleans Risk Warnings
04/23/08 Backyard Tiff Stalls Plan To Clear Trees From Levees
04/23/08 Drought Drives Israel Toward More Desalination Capacity
04/16/08 Mississippi Waters Diverted Into Lake
04/11/08 Mississippi River Spillway Divides the Flood
04/10/08 Corps Opens Spillway Gates To Protect New Orleans
04/09/08 New Orleans Storm-Surge Barrier Contract is Awarded
04/09/08 New Orleans Braces As Mississippi Swells
04/02/08 Rivers Flow Freely Now Through Former Milltown Dam Site
03/31/08 Las Vegas Water Agency Awards Lake Mead Tunnel Contract
03/26/08 New Water Intake at Lake Mead Will Keep Las Vegas Wet
03/26/08 DOE Weighs Plan To Privatize Yucca
03/12/08 W.R. Grace to Pay Huge Montana Site Cleanup Bill
03/12/08 Treat Some Levees As Dams, Say Panelists
03/12/08 Pennsylvania Towns Challenge Nutrient Program
03/11/08 CH2M Hill Is Set to Win London CSO Megaproject
02/27/08 Infrastructure Repair, Access To Clean Water Named Priorities
02/20/08 Hudson River PCB Cleanup Projects Under Construction
02/19/08 Corps Delivers 100-year Protection Plan
02/13/08 Akron Looks at Selling Sewers To Fund Scholarships
02/06/08 Corps of Engineers Readies Clay Stockpile in New Orleans
01/30/08 Okeechobee Protection Plan Goes to Florida Legislature
01/23/08 Coal Firm Fined Record Amount For Water Pollution Violations
01/23/08 Okeechobee Dike's Cutoff Will Introduce Japanese Method
01/16/08 Official Commitments Buoy Everglades Restoration Hope
01/16/08 Outside Experts Warn About Grim California Levee Risk
01/09/08 Failure Illustrates Growing Problem
01/09/08 Levee Officials in New Orleans Select Consultants for Master Drainage Plan
01/03/08 Public-Private Agreement Releases Phoenix from Groundwater
01/03/08 Fish Collector Aims To Advance State of the Art for High Dams
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