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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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07/01/09	Record RCC Structure Is Set for Groundbreaking in California Mobilization has begun in Southern California for excavation of the foundation of what authorities are calling the largest raise of a concrete dam in the U.S. and the largest using roller-compacted concrete in the world.
07/01/09	Katrina Disaster, Risk Study Ends Monumental Work By Tom Sawyer If finished by 2011 as planned and supported by an effective stormwater pumping system, the $14.3-billion hurricane and storm-damage risk-reduction system of levees, gates and floodwalls going up around New Orleans will “dramatically reduce” vulnerability to flooding and potential loss of lives and property during extreme storms events, according to a new report that explains the extraordinary risk-analysis tools developed to study the system since Hurricane Katrina’s devastation in 2005.
06/30/09	More Boston Tunnel Work on the Way By William J. Angelo The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority on June 25 awarded a $4.9-million contract to the Boston office of Stantec for engineering services on the 45-year old, 60-mgd West Roxbury Wastewater Tunnel.

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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 Firms Join To Develop Large Wave-Generation Projects
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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