Part of River to Be Clean By Fall: Some Residents Disagree With DNR's Approach
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By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jan. 31--The first cleanup of a section of the Milwaukee River in Lincoln Park that is tainted with industrial chemicals is expected to be completed in the fall.
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DENHAM SPRINGS - State environmental officials said residents living near Gray's Creek in southwestern Livingston Parish should not be alarmed if the stream turns red next week.
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Mar. 11--MORE PEOPLE are starting to take seriously the problems of water quality in the Arkansas River.   The Colorado Legislature recently passed a bill addressing water quality in cases where water is transferred from one use to another, and Gov.
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By Story by RICK NATHANSON Illustration by CATHRYN CUNNINGHAM Of the Journal  At the beginning of the summer, people were facing tough choices about which plants they might be willing to let die during what seemed like a dry cycle with no end.
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BEAVERS BEND STATE PARK, Oklahoma  - It looks like a perfect trout stream in autumn: clear, cold water gushing over rocks and through wooded hills shedding the last of their leaves.
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The negotiations have been over the timing and procedures to clean up three areas of dioxin-contaminated sediments in a Michigan river.
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Environmentalists have complained for years that the Colorado River below a manmade dam was washing away natural sediment in the Grand Canyon, wiping away beaches and native fish and plants.
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By Hannah Mitchell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 15--HICKORY -- Upper Catawba River basin leaders believe they got the state's attention with their vocal opposition to Concord's and Kannapolis' request to draw water from the Catawba River.
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By Mark Taylor, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Sep. 22--Saturday Conservation: The New River Watershed Roundtable is sponsoring a cleanup on the New River. The event starts at 9:30 a.m. at the Fosters Falls location of the New River Trail State Park.
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By John Ellis, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  May 26--Environmentalists are claiming victory after a federal judge in Fresno on Friday found a key opinion on the effects of water pumping in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta on the endangered delta smelt fish was "legally flawed." U.S.
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By David Hendee, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Feb. 11--VALENTINE, Neb. -- Irrigation farming threatens to sap the Niobrara River, the state's premier canoeing stream, say state and federal agencies.
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By Bill Michelmore The noise and the wake created by 50-foot-long jet boats on the Niagara River come across loud and clear. Erosion of the riverbanks is a more elusive concern.
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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 Darryl Enriquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 13--WAUKESHA -- More than 60 people with concerns about improving water quality heard city officials and consultants Monday say that conservation alone will not resolve this city's water woes.
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By JOHN REID BLACKWELL  A state official tried to ease local residents' concerns about a controversial chemical found in water around DuPont's Spruance plant in Chesterfield County.
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By Kate Brusse, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 8--Hundreds of volunteers will scour the banks of the Boise River Sept. 16 in an effort to keep the river -- which provides 20 percent of Boise's drinking water -- healthy and safe.
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By Gorczyca, Beth  ELKINS - A debate over designating a section of stream for  catchand-release fishing could end up casting a question over the state's tax system.