Money to Test Waters Runs Low: State's Beach Season Length is to Blame
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By Tina Lam, Detroit Free Press  May 26--Michigan is getting shortchanged on federal funds to test for contamination at its beaches, according to a new federal report.
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By Kelly Marshall Fuller, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Sep. 8--Residents on the south end of Garden City Beach have fought for more than two years to keep large-scale beach houses, also known as "mini hotels" out of their community.
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By Gina Smith, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Feb.
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By Patrick May and Brandon Bailey, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 2--They're running out of answers.   And they're running out of ocean.   While the U.S.
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By The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 8--There is no such thing as a private beach in California. Beaches  are public, but some owners of coastal property apparently aren't above lying  to try to keep away the huddled masses.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM  SANTA CLARITA -- Local water suppliers are urging conservation as summer approaches in this driest year on record -- and as the region's main water supply is reduced to a trickle because of a threatened fish 300 miles away.
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By Cynthia Needham; Journal Staff Writer  Mayor Scott Avedisian says the fee system cost twice as much to run as it took in.   * * *   WARWICK - Despite the snowy forecast, the city has made a major summer announcement: it will not charge beach parking fees this year.
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The Ocean State was looking pretty dry. Rhode Island had not seen a single day of film production last year. Or 2002 for that matter.
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By Matt Weiser and Jim Downing, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 3--The fate of a water supply serving two in three Californians has come down to tides, temperature and the mysterious movements of a tiny fish.
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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. -- In this hurricane-battered state, living near the coast has always been a gamble.
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By Joseph Barrios, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 11--PUERTO PEnASCO, Sonora -- In days past, RVs and tents were about the only forms of lodging dotting the long stretch of Sandy Beach, west of downtown Rocky Point.
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The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday, Sept. 12:  Labor Day is gone. The coast is quiet now. Most beachgoers have packed away chairs and umbrellas and turned their thoughts to school and football.
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By Adrian Walker, The Boston Globe  Jun. 12--This is the kind of standoff politicians specialize in: Everyone  has agreed for close to a decade that the battered coastline in Winthrop is in  desperate need of repair.   But that's where the consensus ends.
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By Zane Wilson, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Jun. 10--COLUMBIA -- Negotiations restored most of the money for Horry and Georgetown county projects in the $7.4 billion state budget except $5 million for Interstate 73/74 and a cut of $1 million in funds for beach drainpipe removal.
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By CLIFTON ADCOCK  But after a recent collapse at a Big Splash ride, state officials may require it for water slides.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep.
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By AMY WOLD  With Congress not passing a Water Resources Development Act this year, federal funding to address south Louisiana's coastal land loss probably won't be coming anytime soon.