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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. |
Latest Headlines
| 09/08/10 | Hoover Dam Bypass Cableway Supplier Will Be Reimbursed A four-year legal spat over the Hoover Dam bypass project’s collapsed cableways has ended in a private settlement stemming from an April 20 arbitration ruling. |
| 09/01/10 | Washington State Contract To Remove Dams on Elwha River Awarded for $26.9 Million Barnard Construction Co. , Bozeman, Mont., won a $26.9-million contract from the National Park Service to remove the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams on the Elwha River in Washington State’s Olympic National Park. |
| 09/01/10 | In Maine, Tidal Power Shows More Promise Tidal power in the U.S. moved toward commercial viability this summer when Portland, Maine-based Ocean Renewable Power Co. successfully produced electric power from a tidal turbine it installed in Cobscoo Bay in Eastport, Maine. |
More News
08/25/10 Divers Go Deep To Fix Controls At Denver’s Cheesman Dam08/25/10 Nature Takes Over Demolition of Outdated Oregon Dam
08/04/10 China Inks Deal for Kariba Dam Upgrade
08/04/10 Water-Starved Oman Collects Monsoon Fog
07/28/10 Tempe Had Plan To Replace Inflatable Tubes That Failed
07/28/10 Iowa Dam Breach Drains 9-Mile Lake, But No Lives Lost
07/14/10 Water Seepage Delays Nevada's 'Third Straw' Water Tunnel
07/07/10 Brazil’s Foz do Chapecó Hydro UnitNear Completion, Ready for Operation
06/30/10 Whales Blamed for Port Delay
06/16/10 Stalemate Over Country’s Largest Dam Project Ends
06/16/10 Tibetan Teacher Claims China Plans Massive Dam
05/19/10 Whales Blamed for Port Delay
05/19/10 Boston Water Officials Close In On Coupling Key to Pipe Break
05/19/10 Navy Contracts Say: Sayonara, Okinawa. Buen Binidu, Guam
04/28/10 Brazil Approves 11,200-MW Monte Dam
04/28/10 Large Dam Go-Ahead Releases Pent-Up Protests
04/28/10 Corps Unveils Plan To Restore Polluted Anacostia River Basin
04/21/10 British Columbia Pushes Ahead On $6.6-billion Hydro Project
04/14/10 Chicago Corps Looks at Lock Closure To Protect Great Lakes
04/14/10 New York Plant's Water Permit Denied by State Regulators
04/07/10 Colorado Water Job Sees Costs Climb
04/06/10 Contractor Cleared to Start Tunnel On Hetch Hetchy System Program
03/29/10 Companies Flock to $800-Million Pump Station Bid in New Orleans
03/24/10 High-Risk Dam in Washington Needs $44 Million in New Fixes
03/24/10 Without Sewer Hazard Plan, New Orleans Serves as Lesson
03/17/10 Rebuffed on Coal-Fired Plans, Firm Turns to River for Power
03/03/10 Italian Team Repairing Collapsed Head-Race Tunnel at Ethiopian Dam
02/24/10 Multiparty Pacts in Northwest Set the Stage For Largest Dam Removal in U.S. History
02/10/10 Water, Cleanup Sectors See Mixed ARRA Prognosis
02/03/10 Corps Expects July Start at Seabrook, Despite Protest
02/03/10 California Water Board Fines Long Beach for Tank Errors
01/27/10 Roller-Compacted Concrete Delivers Rapid, Efficient Dam Rebuild
01/20/10 As Funds Line Up, a Tall Dam In California Will Come Down
01/11/10 California Firm Tapped to Irrigate Elk Refuge
12/09/09 Tough Tunneling Defines Belfast Sewer Fix
12/09/09 Builders Don’t Like Stormwater Rule
12/09/09 Treatment Plant Clears Way for Elwha Project
12/02/09 New Storm-Surge Sector and Lift-Gate Plans To Be Aired
12/09/09 Tough Tunneling Defines Belfast Sewer Fix
12/09/09 Builders Don’t Like Stormwater Rule
12/09/09 Treatment Plant Clears Way for Elwha Project
12/02/09 New Storm-Surge Sector and Lift-Gate Plans To Be Aired
11/25/09 Katrina Judge Blasts Corps
11/19/09 Corps Failed to Protect New Orleans From Katrina Flooding, Court Rules
11/18/09 Chinese Firm Chosen To Build a Major Dam Project
11/11/09 Bond Would Leverage Money For California’s Needs
11/05/09 In New Orleans, JV Contractor Pushes $1-Bil. Flood Works Job Forward
10/21/09 Delayed Russian Dam System Nears Reality
10/21/09 Chicago Flood Redux: Those Infamous Tunnels Wreak Highway Havoc
10/21/09 London Tunnel Spoil Will Create Wetlands
10/16/09 Senate Approval Clears Way For Energy and Water Funding
10/07/09 Corps Scrambles to Fix Gate After Failure on Ohio River
09/30/09 Wastewater: Breathing New Life Into Old Facilities
09/16/09 Water Conference Bridges Atlantic
09/02/09 Contest Draws Eyes and Ideas To Sustainable Coastal Cities
08/26/09 Peaceful Transition: Native People and Hydro-Québec Share Benefits of Big Project
08/26/09 Pushing Dirt at 1:60 Scale Shows the Way
08/19/09 Orbiting Sensors Reveal Critical Water Loss
08/19/09 Contractors on Seattle Job Scramble To Free Two Stuck TBMs
08/18/09 Plans Set in Seattle to Free Two Stuck Tunnel-Boring Machines
08/14/09 Agreement Removes Obstacles Blocking Everglades Restoration
08/05/09 Bid Process Starts for Canal’s Last Dry-Excavation Contract
08/05/09 Ontario’s State-of-the-Art Upgrade Will Cost $550-Million
07/29/09 EPA Unveils Plan To Restore Great Lakes to Health
07/01/09 Record RCC Structure Is Set for Groundbreaking in California
07/01/09 Katrina Disaster, Risk Study Ends Monumental Work
06/30/09 More Boston Tunnel Work on the Way
06/24/09 Supreme Court Back Corps in Dispute with EPA in Alaska
06/17/09 Tampa Bay Water Pushing Fix, Lawsuit for Cracked Reservoir
06/17/09 Hydro-Quebec Launches Four-Dam Project on Romaine River
06/10/09 Digging In To Deliver Clean Water
06/10/09 Utility Tests Nuclear Waters Decades After Financial Fiasco
06/03/09 Most Important Removal Begins on Oregon Dam
06/03/09 Workforce and Fleet Swarms on New Orleans Flood Defenses
05/29/09 Work Gears Up On Vital Storm Surge Barrier
05/21/09 Stimulus Flushes Out California Water Projects
04/08/09 GAO Rejects Parsons' Bid Protest At DOE Savannah River Nuke Site
03/25/09 Corps of Engineers Must Answer Civil Claims Over Katrina Floods
03/13/09 House Clears Bill to Authorize Wastewater Infrastructure Funds
03/13/09 EPA Designates First Recovery Funds For Northwest, Alaska Water Work
03/11/09 California Wants a Sea-Level-Rise Plan, But Money Is an Issue
03/11/09 Defining Protection To Know the Risk
03/11/09 Contractors Brace for a Workstorm as Louisiana Projects Surge
03/11/09 Connecting the Rocks
03/11/09 Climate-Proofing Rotterdam
03/11/09 Building With Nature by Weaving Defenses
03/11/09 Engineers Focus On Big Delta Threats
03/04/09 Panama Canal Authority Seeks Bids for Large Dredging Job
02/25/09 Folsom Dam Water Main Pipe Collapses, But Spillway Rehab Remains on Track
02/04/09 Resolving the Conflict When New Ideas Hit Tight Deadlines
02/04/09 Firms Join To Develop Large Wave-Generation Projects
01/28/09 Quiet Rig Makes Some Noise For Flood-Remediation Work
01/21/09 A Shotgun Approach To Water Resource Improvements
01/19/09 Louisiana Gets $1.5B, 30-yr Fed. Loan For Hurricane Protection System Work
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