Project Looks at Erosion, Flooding Counties Working to Improve Quality of Watershed
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By MARK WILSON, Courier & Press staff writer 464-7417 or wilsonm@courierpress.com  A hard one-inch rain across the Big Creek watershed, such as the area received Tuesday, can cause the creek and its many tributaries to nearly top its banks in a short period of time.
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By Adam Webster  West Virginia's Legislature is currently determining the fate of more than 300 of the state's highest quality rivers and streams.
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By Brian McDearmon, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Jun. 22--With more people come more showers, more loads of laundry, more  lawns to water.
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By Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 17--One step forward, one step back. We're making progress in cleaning up some of the problems plaguing the Chesapeake Bay and the rivers and streams that flow into it.
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By Jennifer Learn-Andes, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Sep. 22--The construction of an amphitheater, landing and other recreational improvements along the Susquehanna River will be history in the making, say Luzerne County officials, which is why they want to capture it on film.
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By The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  May 24--Sarasota County's Environmentally Sensitive Lands Protection Program purchased a .22-acre creekside property.
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By Rick Steelhammer  rsteelhammer@wvgazette.com  Plans to relocate the sewage plant serving Pocahontas County's largest development onto the grounds of one of its smallest and oldest tourist stops came a step closer to becoming a reality on Wednesday.
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By The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 22--SARASOTA -- The Southwest Florida Water Management District wants to know how outdoor enthusiasts rank local lakes, rivers, streams and aquifers on their water levels.
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By Jackie Burke, American News, Aberdeen, S.D.  Dec. 9--Aberdeen officials are working with area landowners to help improve water quality in Elm Lake and its watershed.
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By Lisa Fleisher, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Mar. 6--An alliance of coastal communities along the Grand Strand could band together to request around $120 million in federal funding to address the problem of stormwater runoff.
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By Scott Richardson  BLOOMINGTON - Melting snow, frozen ground and rain on the way had officials focused on two key water issues on Tuesday.
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Hundreds of homes in northwestern Indiana county were swamped by rising floodwaters after a storm dumped up to 5 inches of rain within a few hours, a county official said Thursday.
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By Kathryn Thier, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Mar. 4--Virginia developers are at work on an unusual new residential community at Lake Norman's headwaters in unincorporated west Iredell County, across the Catawba River from a planned development in the town of Catawba.
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By Eric Ferreri, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 9--DURHAM -- Durham County employs strict guidelines to manage stormwater during development. If the state has its way, the county will be punished for that environmental vigilance, county leaders say.
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Meteorologists at North Carolina State University are working on a way to more accurately measure rainfall in small areas.
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By EVADNA BARTLETT  WINFIELD - Project planning to extend water to almost 60 families on Jim and Bee ridges above Buffalo is "right on track," an engineer told Putnam County commissioners.
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By P.J. Reilly  The Lancaster County Conservancy has identified the Octoraro Creek watershed as one of its target areas for land preservation. The nonprofit organization already has three preserves in that southern Lancaster County area. Soon, it will add to those holdings. Wednesday, Gov.