Alton Park Looks to Future Beyond Creek Cleanup
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By Ian Berry, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Sep. 23--A daylong conference in Piney Woods on Friday focused on much more than Chattanooga Creek, although its cleanup as part of the federal Superfund program is considered a crucial step in the community's resurgence.
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Jun. 5--After months of back-and-forth arguing about a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to dump hundreds of tons of dirt into the Missouri River, the corps and state water regulators will meet later this month to try to dig up a compromise.
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By Wade Rawlins, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 13--Warnings about eating fish contaminated with toxic chemicals have been extended upstream from Lake Crabtree County Park along Crabtree Creek in Wake County to Cedar Fork District Park in Morrisville.
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Waste center hopes to get rid of debris where water collects and mosquitoes tend to breed. By Diana Lamirand. Recycling junk tires may take a bite out of the local mosquito population.
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By Karen Sloan, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Dec. 11--The site where the crumbling Wintergreen Park Apartments once stood could be transformed into a neighborhood of new homes.
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By J.B. Smith, Waco Tribune-Herald, Texas  Sep. 5--Waco City Council today will discuss its priorities for what  could be millions of dollars in Cameron Park improvements.    The council earlier this year discussed renovating the 416-acre park in  time for its centennial in 2010.
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Dec. 11--A federal grant will revamp off-road trails at Finger Lakes State Park to keep riders out of a polluted stream on the land.
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By DANA BARTHOLOMEW  LAKE VIEW TERRACE -- For decades, neighbors shut their windows to the hideous smell, dust and noise from the Lopez Canyon Landfill.  Now city officials are asking community members to help plan a park on the former 400-acre dump.
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Clean-up continues with waters still rising in some areas.
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By DAN MCKAY Journal Staff Writer  Water conservation is coming to unincorporated Bernalillo County.
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By JOHN REID BLACKWELL  A state official tried to ease local residents' concerns about a controversial chemical found in water around DuPont's Spruance plant in Chesterfield County.
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By Warren Cornwall, Seattle Times  Dec. 16--Jim Pitts was in the basement of his Normandy Park home, vacuuming half an inch of floodwater off the floor, when the call came Thursday night shortly after 7 o'clock.
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By Amanda O'Toole, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Feb. 1--A red and yellow sign heralding a new playground stands at the northern entrance of Sedgwick County Park.
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By Steve Mayes, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Jun. 13--Despite repeated warnings from the state, a prominent Clackamas  County real estate developer allowed his herd of water buffalo to foul a creek  with fecal bacteria, stir up sediment and destroy streamside vegetation.
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By Matthew Leblanc, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Sep. 12--Nancy Holliday is hoping messy yards like the one near her Columbia home on Jean Rae Drive will soon be a thing of the past.
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The revival of the New River Valley chapter of Trout Unlimited is good news. Chapter members have worked this year to remove trash from Peak Creek and its banks and to install small log structures on the stream bed to provide cover for trout.
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By Michael Biesecker, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  May 31--RALEIGH -- Human waste trickles out of a rusting single-wide trailer in Oak Hill Estates, draining to a rivulet that flows past children's toys before disappearing into head-high weeds.