Wastewater utilities are pleased the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a fleshed-out framework to give local governments more flexibility in managing stormwater runoff and wastewater.
Builders of mass transit systems seem cautiously optimistic about the future, buoyed by steady ridership figures and the recent rally to overcome threats to dedicated funding.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors is calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to move forward with a new Integrated Planning and Permitting Policy, or IP3, that is being discussed as an improvement to the agency's legal enforcement programs for stormwater management and combined sewer overflows.
In their quest to bring swift repairs to a critical floodway and fill a huge scour hole left after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers breached Mississippi River levees to fight record floods in 2011, engineers have turned to innovative strategies to cope with an environmentally sensitive complication: a blue hole.
The three East African countries planning to use a stalled $360-million, 90-MW hydroelectric powerplant project have agreed to contribute funding, allowing the start of construction to be set for 2013.
Bowing to state concerns over the increased potential for sinkhole activity near Tampa Bay Water's C.W. "Bill" Young Regional Reservoir in Lithia, Fla., the water utility has scuttled its $41-million, 3-billion-gallon planned expansion of the facility.
Gaylord Entertainment Inc., whose Nashville hotel and entertainment properties sustained more than $250 million in flood damage two years ago, and others are charging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and National Weather Service with negligence and failure to act during the event.