Controversial dam clears hurdle
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Families affected by the 180m Barra Grande dam in Brazil drop their protest, angering environmentalists.
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By Mahalia Asanaenyi, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Dec. 9--The City of Gretna has signed on to a controversial proposal to build up to 29 dams to control storm water runoff and flooding in the Omaha metropolitan area.
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A massive clear-up is taking place after flooding damage estimated at hundreds of millions of pounds.
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By MICHAEL OLIVEIRA  TORONTO (CP) - A bill to protect Great Lakes water from being sold or shipped across the continent passed its final hurdle in the Ontario legislature Thursday, as all three parties voted unanimously to pass it into law.
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By MELODIE N MARTIN  The public will receive an update and have opportunities to ask questions this evening regarding plans to repair a dam on the Chickahominy River that was breached last month.
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By P.J. LASSEK World Staff Writer  A low-water dam can be designed to be extremely safe for recreational use while addressing floodwater flows, fish migration, and sand buildup, a U.S. Corps of Engineers consultant said.
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An ambitious long-range plan to remove unneeded dams along the Musconetcong River is scheduled to get under way by the end of the summer.
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An earthen dam that threatened to burst and send more than 6 million gallons of water into downtown El Paso was stabilized Friday after crews worked overnight to lower water levels, officials said.
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BEIJING A flood crest passed safely through the Three Gorges Dam on China&#39;s Yangtze River on Thursday as devastated communities upstream cleaned up from floods that had killed at least 177 people and injured thousands.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Out at the Wanapum Dam on the Columbia River, a new turbine is being tested that generates more electricity, but won't kill so many fish - thanks to research dollars from Uncle Sam.
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 24--LOWER ARKANSAS Valley Water Conservancy District officials are on the right track, demonstrating leadership and independence in their quest to protect the region's rural water supplies from being lost to the urban Front Range.
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Biologists say an endangered minnow is rebounding in central North Carolina, thanks largely to demolition of an old dam.
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BEIJING - A massive floodcrest passed safely through the Three Gorges Dam on China&#39;s Yangtze River yesterday as devastated communities upstream cleaned up from floods that killed at least 177 people and injured thousands.
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A controversial project to build a dam which would flood an ancient town in Turkey's mainly Kurdish south-east rears its head again.
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  May 29--Side channel projects to restore fish habitat along a stretch of the Missouri River have come to a halt under pressure from the state's Clean Water Commission.   The U.S.
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Authorities released a fierce, brown river of water from a Southern California dam and evacuated more than 1,000 people from its path Friday after a temporary earthen barrier at the site began seeping water.
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Dec. 12--Environmentalists won a key victory Monday in their fight to stop water polluted by sugar cane fields from being pumped into Lake Okeechobee.