Big Dig Leaks Worse Than Thought
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Leaks in the Big Dig highway tunnel system under downtown Boston are more widespread than officials have acknowledged, and a new state report suggests tens of millions of dollars
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By Kristi E. Swartz, The Palm Beach Post, Fla.  Sep. 20--A pinhole-sized leak may be why 900 gallons of fuel oil flowed  into Tampa Bay from a Florida Power & Light Co. off-loading terminal near the  utility's Manatee Energy Center, an FPL spokesman said Tuesday.
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By Associated Press  WASHINGTON -- It will cost at least $12 billion to clean up contamination from tens of thousands of gasoline storage tanks that are leaking underground, congressional auditors say.
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NEW YORK - A woman out walking Monday was swallowed by the sidewalk when it caved in under her.  The woman, 64, fell into a sinkhole about 5 feet by 2 feet wide and about 5 feet deep in front of a house in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn.
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Travelers know the warning: Don't drink the water. But tourists to Mammoth Cave National Park might be better off learning a new one: Don't let the water drip on you.
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By MORGAN, Jon  Farmers in slip-affected North Island areas are being asked to change their ways to reduce the damage caused by silt. JON MORGAN reports.   Coffers -- the name conjures up images of big bins filled with treasure and, in a way, that's what they are.
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Big builder Hovnanian appears to be saying that things could get worse before they improve.
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Huge cost overruns. Tunnel leaks. Multimillion-dollar lawsuits. Big trouble for the companies managing Boston's Big Dig? Not really.
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BOSTON - The Big Dig - Boston&#39;s newly opened $14.6 billion highway tunnel project - has a seriously flawed wall that contractors knew about as early as 1999, and is riddled with hundreds of smaller leaks, consultants reported in another embarrassment for
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In a burgeoning political and engineering scandal, Boston&#39;s gleaming new underground Interstate 93 is riddled with hundreds of leaks.
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By Momo Chang  OAKLAND - A 164-million-gallon tank of water sitting quietly in Oakland could be what caused a landslide in May that completely destroyed one home and damaged several others.
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A small amount of water used to cool radioactive spent fuel rods at a Japanese nuclear reactor leaked into the Sea of Japan as a result of a massive earthquake that struck the country yesterday, though officials of Tokyo Electric Power insisted it posed no danger.
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BOSTON -- Boston's Big Dig has sprung a big leak.Twenty years and $14.6 billion after its conception, the most ambitious public works project in the nation -- an unprecedented effort to route an unsightly highway deep beneath the central city and replace it with a green ribbon of parks --...
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Water is accumulating on the underground roof of the Big Dig tunnels, according to Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, who said yesterday that his office is trying to determine whether the pools of water pose any threat of damage to the $14.
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By Ryan Lafontaine, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 9--HANCOCK COUNTY -- Rebuilding delayed due to faulty septic tanks   Thousands of property owners hoping to rebuild their homes here will soon find they are stuck between a rock and a smelly place.
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The company overseeing the construction of the beleaguered Big Dig said Monday that repairs to fix widespread leaks would take months, not years, and denounced public officials for rushing to judgment on the &#36;14.6 billion project.
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The rain last Sunday was heavy, but not torrential, and it is totally unacceptable for the Water Service, or whatever they call it now (I think they've omitted the word 'Service' for starters), to say the flooding cannot be resolved until the new sewage system is finished.