Salt is Leaking into Marsh
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By Jeffrey L. Frischkorn, The News-Herald, Willoughby, Ohio  Jun. 25--A decades-old earthen cap has started to leak, allowing salt to  leach into the fragile Mentor Marsh.
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An exotic marsh grass is spreading throughout San Francisco Bay more rapidly than anticipated, threatening native plants and birds and prompting an urgent search for ways to eradicate it.
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The old check float is about to sink.
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By Joe Wojtas, The Day, New London, Conn.  Sep. 20--STONINGTON -- The Aquarion Water Co.
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Boston -- Leaks in the Big Dig highway tunnel system are more widespread than officials have acknowledged, and top construction managers warned as far back as six years ago about problems that could cause waterproofing failures, records show.
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NISQUALLY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Wash. -- Farmland that was drained and diked more than 100 years ago would turn back into salt marshes and mudflats for migrating salmon under a 15-year plan for the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.
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Removing salt from sea water to overcome  a worldwide shortage of drinking water could end up worsening  the crisis, environmental group WWF warned on Tuesday.
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The state is providing $200,000 in grants to help eight communities and nonprofit organizations restore damaged wetlands, Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles announced this week.  Plymouth and the Cohasset Center for Student Coastal Research are among the recipients.
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By Tom Vogt, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jun. 26--County officials have closed Klineline Pond to swimmers today after tests showed the water was contaminated.
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FERNLEY, Nev. -- Hundreds of homes sat in as much as 8 feet of water Sunday following a canal rupture as freezing weather spread sheets of ice over yards and streets, hindering efforts to get the water to drain away.
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"In most cities desalination plants are not required."  GENEVA: Extracting salt from seawater to make it drinkable is the wrong way to handle water shortages around the world and could exacerbate climate change, a leading conservation group said Tuesday. via International Herald Tribune
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By Rob Varnon, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Dec. 15--The state Department of Transportation said Thursday it is turning to salt alone in its battle with winter, banishing the use of environmentally harmful sand.
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By Nick Green DAILY BREEZE  Today, 15 dewatering wells in Rancho Palos Verdes' Abalone Cove Landslide pump 225,000 to 275,000 gallons of water out of the ground daily and send it cascading into the ocean.
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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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One of 34 drainage pumps under investigation for possibly being faulty when they were installed before the start of last year's hurricane season had a minor problem during a test Thursday, the Army Corps of Engineers said.
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By Walter Griffin, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec. 15--BELFAST -- Emergency officials estimated that approximately 1,000 gallons of gasoline spilled on Route 1 Wednesday night when a fuel tanker truck was forced off the road and rolled into a ditch.
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The Big Dig is riddled with leaks that are dumping millions of gallons of water into the $14.6 billion tunnel system, according to an engineer hired to investigate the cause of a massive leak in September.