Corps Flood Protection Project Inspections Reveal Five Levees in Massachusetts Need to Be Upgraded
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CONCORD, Mass., Feb. 2  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District has determined that five federally-constructed local protection projects in Massachusetts have levees of concern.
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By The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Feb. 4--Macon's 5.5 mile long, 65-year-old levee has had a "growing" problem for years, one that should have been corrected but wasn't. Now that problem threatens, in a worst case scenario, to leave the city in danger of flooding.
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Attempts to keep the Mississippi contained have often had the opposite effect, but now the Army is counting on huge mats of concrete to do the job. Michelle Delio reports from Natchez, Mississippi.
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By The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Dec. 8--State officials need the public's help to ensure that massive damage from last week's winter storm does not harm marine life or recreation at the Lake of the Ozarks.
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By Joan Kent, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Dec. 15--La Crosse officials will consider a request in January to have the city engineer prepare plans for other types of barriers on the Riverside Park levee.
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By CAIN BURDEAU  NEW ORLEANS - A group of residents called Monday for Congress to set up an independent, bipartisan panel similar to the Sept. 11 Commission to investigate why levees failed during Hurricane Katrina.
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A city transportation review prompted by a deadly collapse in a Big Dig tunnel has found cracks that will require major repairs to an older tunnel under Boston Harbor, Gov. Mitt Romney said Tuesday.
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Today's session, sponsored by the state Department of Environmental Management, is part of an effort to protect the Scituate Reservoir system.
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By Jennifer Amy Myers, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Feb. 27--BILLERICA -- What has already been a 15-year road to build a  temple on the banks of the Concord River promises to be even longer.
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Louisiana residents on Saturday approved an amendment to the state constitution to overhaul flood and hurricane protection efforts in the region still struggling to rebuild from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
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By Leah M. Caudle and Beverly Fortune, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 16--bfortune@herald-leader.com [mailto:bfortune@herald-leader.com]   The Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet has issued a water shortage watch for 61 counties across the state.
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 26--BILOXI -- Failure to implement FEMA's recommended elevation requirements for buildings could leave Biloxi residents without flood insurance, according to a banker.
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By Diane Mastrull, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Sep. 24--If the region has a prayer of controlling flooding, communities and the developers who build in them must embrace the new technologies of storm-water management.   Experts have made that point repeatedly in recent years.
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Proposed state regulations for freight elevators could impose costs of between $25,000 and $100,000 -- and possibly more -- on hundreds of small companies in Massachusetts, raising concerns that some of them will close or move out of state rather than pay for upgrades.
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Shandale Collins spent the past five months renovating his home after floodwaters destroyed nearly everything. Now he's wondering whether he'll have to do it all over again.
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By BRANDON LARRABEE  ATLANTA - Some construction alongside the state's coastal marshes would be pushed back 50 feet from the fragile ecosystems under rules approved by the Board of Natural Resources.
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The Massachusetts office of Economic Development is giving out $76 million in grants to 21 development projects, including $10 million to Columbus Center, a long-delayed hotel, residential, and retail project that is to straddle the Massachusetts Turnpike between the Back Bay and South End.