Drought Allows Crews to Pull the Pollution-Laden Muck Out of Lake Okeechobee
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  May 25--Bulldozers replaced bass boats on a dried patch of Lake Okeechobee on Thursday, scraping away the muck-caked consequences of turning the once-pristine lake into Florida's largest retention pond.
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ATLANTA - After one of the driest springs in recent history, and looking  ahead to a parched weather forecast, Georgia farmers, environmental  officials and local authorities face some tough decisions about using water.
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Lake Okeechobee was expected to drop this week to its lowest level on record, threatening a key source of water for nearly 5 million people and the Everglades during South Florida's worst known drought.
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A drought that has bared parts of the bed of Florida's largest lake has exposed human bone fragments, pottery and even boats &#151; and archaeologists are trying to evaluate the artifacts before water levels rise again.
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By Jim Johnson, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 25--When the Petersens' well ran dry in June, the family dealt with the lack of water the best they could.   The Prunedale residents spent hundreds of dollars for thousands of gallons of water to be trucked to their home.
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By Claudia Mel, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Feb. 21--The water situation in East Salinas has had a foul smell for a long time, and officials are getting serious about finding the source of the stench.
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 18--Lingering drought conditions could lead to more water restrictions for western growers already worried about losing crops.
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FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. - Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies think they have found a solution for getting rid of drug dealers and prostitutes who congregate under a giant oak tree: chop it down...
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The response to the worst drought on record in the Southeast has unfolded in ultra-slow motion.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Feb. 4--Two years after a mysterious chemical contamination shut down two-thirds of the pumps tapping Miami-Dade's largest source of drinking water, county engineers are preparing to put them back on line.
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By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jun. 6--The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' approach to cover some of the polluted sediments in the $400 million cleanup of the Fox River in northeastern Wisconsin got support Tuesday from a national, non-partisan scientific panel.
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By Vivian Austin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 11--GAUTIER -- City personnel are seeking grant money to fund an environmental court that would help enforce Gautier's laws on property care and cleanup.
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By Penix, Matthew  Oil and gas infrastructure was left mangled when Hurricane Katrina rambled through the Gulf of Mexico in August 2005. Vast amounts of work needed to be done by engineering firms already short on employees.
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By ADRIAN SAINZ  MIAMI - The water level in the lake that serves as the main backup water supply for 5 million south Florida residents dropped to a record low Thursday as firefighters continued battling a blaze on part of the exposed lake bottom.
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BUFORD, Ga., Oct. 26 -- No gauges are necessary at Lake Lanier to measure the ravages of the Southeast's drought.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 17--More than 3,000 volunteers crawled over the beach like ants, making South Mississippi a little more tidy as 2006 Mississippi Coastal Cleanup rolled along Saturday morning.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 11--OCEAN SPRINGS -- Jackson County supervisors have asked staff to help find a way that would allow volunteers with a major relief operation to continue using the county landfill for refuse they create when they reconstruct homes.