Lake Okeechobee Dike Repair Cost Triples
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The price tag for fixing the aging, earthen dike around Lake Okeechobee has nearly tripled since last year because of rising construction costs and a lack of skilled labor, the Army Corps of Engineers said.
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By Manny Gamallo, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 9--SAND SPRINGS -- Water, sewer and trash customers will see a combined rate increase of 3 percent to 5 percent in next month's utility bills, city officials said.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The Army Corps of Engineers agreed Wednesday to redesign plans to repair a dike that experts say is in danger of failing if a hurricane strikes.
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By Curtis Morgan and Amy Driscoll, The Miami Herald  Jun. 16--A key component of the Biscayne Landing cleanup appears to have gone sour.   That could cost developers and, ultimately, Miami-Dade taxpayers.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  May 31--A $1.5 million project that will reconstruct two taxiways at the La Crosse Municipal Airport is scheduled to start in early June.   The Federal Aviation Administration is providing $1.4 million of the cost, the state $37,230 and the city $37,231.
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By Kate Schott, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Mar. 13--With about $1.5 million already in the bank from other sources, the organizers of the Myrick Hixon EcoPark now are inviting area residents to contribute to the $4.8 million renovation project in hopes of making it a community effort.
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Damage to Florida's $62 billion  agricultural sector from the worst hurricane season in decades  will probably be around $3 billion when all the toppled citrus  trees, shattered greenhouses and fallen fruit are counted, the  state government said Thursday.
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Oil giant BP Plc  expects the  replacement of corroded pipelines at the Prudhoe Bay oil field  in Alaska to cost around $100 million, a company source said on  Thursday, but the total cost to BP will likely be several times  this figure.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Jun. 9--Beach restoration in east Destin is halfway done.
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By Angel Riggs, Tulsa World, Okla.  Mar. 2--OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Commissioners of the Land Office approved a revised purchase agreement Thursday that includes a $350,000 deposit for the Lake Texoma State Lodge and Park.
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By Pat Rice, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Feb. 18--In the big scheme of things, I guess $45,395.96 is not a lot of money.
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By AMY WOLD  NEW ORLEANS - A federal coastal-restoration task force is combing the books for money to get more projects built.
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By Hyatt, Abraham  CAVE JUNCTION - It sounded like an unbelievable amount of money: more than $171 million worth of salvage lumber, enough to build as many as 17,000 homes, waiting to be logged in forests blackened by 2002's famed Biscuit Fire.
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By Kevin Leininger, The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind.  Jun. 23--It may be Allen County's ultimate "fixer-upper," and it could be yours.   For just $1.9 million.  "This is just five miles from Fort Wayne, but most people don't know about it.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - As Florida residents began sweeping up the wreckage left behind by Hurricane Charley, officials on Sunday estimated damages as high as $11 billion for insured homes alone...
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By DON BEHM  Mequon - When the Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary removes a crumbling dam on Pigeon Creek this spring, it will avoid paying up to $100,000 in repair or replacement costs and open the stream to migrating fish for the first time in nearly 80 years.
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As Florida was cleaning up yesterday from its fourth hurricane in six weeks, insurance executives and analysts said they expected the cost of coverage to rise sharply for millions of homes and businesses in the state.