U.S. Army Corps Begins Willamette Dredge Study
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By Libby Tucker  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began official plans to dredge the Willamette River for the first time in 10 years with a public meeting Thursday night.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  May 26--The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a regional wetlands filling permit on Friday and opponents have already vowed to take the matter to court.
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The Coast Guard is planning its first operating base in the Arctic as a way of dealing with ships that are already beginning to ply the Arcticâs increasingly ice-free waters.
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By Allan Brettman, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Jan. 31--VANCOUVER -- A Clark County land use hearings examiner ruled  Tuesday in favor of construction of what neighbors believe will be a Wal-Mart  in the Salmon Creek area.
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The city of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services on Tuesday released a request for consultants to work on habitat restoration at the Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge, a 140-acre flood plain wetland on the east bank of the Willamette River.
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Virginia plans to install a monitoring station in the Potomac River that will help boaters and fishermen while assisting marine biologists studying the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
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By Mary Landers, Savannah Morning News, Ga.  Sep. 14--A proposed deepening of the Savannah Harbor won't substantially  worsen the effects of a hurricane storm surge on the river, according to a  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study.
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KOHLER, Wis. -- The US Army used to use the acres now named Whistling Straits for anti-aircraft artillery practice.
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Dreaming Creek, one of more than 15 boats in the 22nd annual James River Batteau Festival, approached Maiden's Landing in Powhatan County yesterday after an eight-day, 120-mile journey from Lynchburg. Tom Hasenfang (right) poled the bateau while Captain Bob Shortridge manned the sweep.
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By Christopher Schwarzen, The Seattle Times  Sep. 20--As the excavator dug out the deep-rooted blackberries from the  shoreline of Barr Creek last week, two men stepped down near the water,  determining where to place the large, woody debris stacked nearby.
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By Mike Archbold, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 4--By Memorial Day, the boat ramp at Allan Yorke Park on Lake Tapps in Bonney Lake will have an automated launch system and a higher fee.
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The University of Rhode Island has designed a voyage to the bottom of the sea for students in an emerging field of scientific exploration &#151; archaeological oceanography.
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By Juliann Vachon  Counties in the tri-state are looking for volunteers willing to get their hands dirty combing the shorelines of the Ohio River for trash and debris in the 2007 River Sweep on June 16.
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By Warren Cornwall, Seattle Times  Mar. 8--Removing two dams on the Olympic Peninsula's Elwha River would flush enough dirt and gravel downstream to fill a million dump trucks.
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Twenty-three years after a Missoula County sanitarian found arsenic in Milltown&#39;s tap water, the US Environmental Protection Agency on Monday issued a final plan for excavating
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The underwater grave of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor is being analyzed by computer modeling software to prevent an oil spill from the wreckage.
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Mar. 5--Three Benton County sites that long have been known to be contaminated are now on a state Department of Ecology list of hazardous sites planned for cleanup.   The Benton City Maintenance Yard, Chevron Chemical Co.