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The project to raise the dam's height by 131 ft is 60% complete and was scheduled to finish in 2027. 

Big wastewater treatment site backup gas power plant is strongly opposed by residents of city already deemed a pollution-burdened community.

The Four Lakes Task Force says it now has all the permits to repair and reconstruct four Tittabawassee River dams.

The project includes linking the reservoir to a 350-mile pipeline network connecting to both the Colorado River and California aqueducts.

The latest transboundary wastewater flows threaten to delay the urgent repair, rerouting and rehabilitation of a pipe system on the Mexican side of the border serving wastewater treatment plants in both countries.

A $1.5-billion project to double the length of the Kentucky Lock—an expansion 25 years in the making—has reached a milestone with installation of final structural monoliths that form its core.

New treatment plant is expected to enable more housing construction for future residents of the artificial island in San Francisco Bay.

In 5-4 ruling, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining liberal wing in dissent, the high court says EPA has the responsibility to provide details for wastewater plant discharge permits.

The monoliths in this 1940 cover image are the Tainter gates of the Austin Dam in Texas, a troubled structure which was undergoing a comprehensive rebuild at the time.

The contractors are repairing Apra Harbor's Glass Breakwater, which was damaged by a typhoon and at risk of breach.