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ENR New York’s 2017 Best Projects

Water/Environment Award of Merit: Former Town of Salina Landfill Remediation Project

September 18, 2017

The former unlined landfill that operated in the town of Salina, N.Y., from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s and accepted all types of waste had been dormant for nearly 20 years.

Cleanup of Infamously Polluted Brooklyn Canal Hits Snag

August 16, 2017

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A second bulkhead collapsed at the Brooklyn, N.Y., Gowanus Canal in late July, two months after the first bulkhead crumbled in May.

Companies

Top 200 Environmental Firms Weigh Market in Trump Era

Companies held their own in 2016 even as an election, an uncertain post-Brexit Europe and still-sluggish oil prices loomed over the environmental sector.

Debra K. Rubin

Mary B. Powers

August 10, 2017

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The Top 200 Environmental Firms held their own in 2016, even as the election of Donald Trump, an uncertain post-Brexit Europe and still-sluggish oil prices loomed over the environmental marketplace.

Project Team Delivers 20-Mile Water Pipeline Project in 90 Days

Autumn Cafiero Giusti

July 31, 2017

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Amid rigorous scheduling demands, construction is wrapping up on an $18 million project to build a 20-mile, high-capacity pipeline in Pecos to deliver water for use in hydraulic fracturing projects.

Infrastructure Finance

EPA Picks 12 Projects to Apply for First-Ever WIFIA loans

Projects are in nine states, including four in California

Tom Ichniowski

July 19, 2017

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Projects seek $2.3 billion in water-infrastructure loans, but EPA's lending capacity is $1.5 billion.

Water Infrastructure

Appropriators Oppose Trump Budget Cut for Army Corps

Key senators criticize proposed $1-billion civil-works program reduction

Tom Ichniowski

June 29, 2017

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House subcommittee clears bill with 2% increase over 2017 level.

Five Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter in Flint Water Crisis

Pam Radtke Russell

June 14, 2017

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Those charged failed to notify the public about an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease that occurred long before the public focused attention on Flint because of lead in the water there.

Regulatory Barriers Stymie Onsite Potable Water Systems

Nadine M. Post

May 24, 2017

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California, Oregon and Washington are among the states moving forward with regulations and road maps for the construction and operation of building- and district-scale graywater capture and treatment systems for non-potable-water use, such as toilet flushing and irrigation.

WIFIA Program Gets 43 Requests, Seeking $6B in Loans

Pam Radtke Russell

May 17, 2017

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Local water agencies got good news when Congress added $10 million to the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loan program in the recently enacted omnibus spending bill.

$1.5B Storage Reservoir Project Approved for Everglades

Thomas F. Armistead

May 17, 2017

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Engineers in Florida are starting to plan for design and construction of a new $1.5-billion water-storage facility in the Everglades Agricultural Area south of Lake Okeechobee.