Panel Wants to See Levee Design
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By Kent, Joan  A proposal to have the city's engineer prepare alternative plans and estimates for the levee entrances at Riverside Park won approval Tuesday from the La Crosse Plan Commission.
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By Joan Kent, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Dec. 15--La Crosse officials will consider a request in January to have the city engineer prepare plans for other types of barriers on the Riverside Park levee.
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By SCOTT HARPER  BY SCOTT HARPER  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  RICHMOND - The State Water Control Board rejected two major development proposals Wednesday - one on the Peninsula, the other on the Eastern Shore - in decisions cheered by environmentalists and watermen.
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The levee system that was designed to protect New Orleans, but failed catastrophically during Hurricane Katrina, was completed under severe financial and political pressure, including opposition from local officials and environmentalists, according to a federally sponsored report set to be releas...
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Sep. 25--1. Pearl Street levee safety measures: In July, La Crosse Common Council accepted reports about possible safety measures, but City Engineer Randy Turtenwald said the council did not authorize him to take any action, and he is awaiting council direction.
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By EVADNA BARTLETT  Homeowners in an often-soaked Teays Valley subdivision worry that development of adjacent property will worsen their problems.   They laid out their concerns Tuesday before the Putnam County Commission.
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 7--BILOXI -- The Biloxi City Council chose a firm to devise a new post-Katrina comprehensive plan Tuesday and also discussed widening the time frame for homeowners to build back at lower elevations.
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By Mike Salinero, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Feb. 6--TAMPA -- A split planning commission took the first step Monday night toward wider protective buffers around Hillsborough County's wetlands.
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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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The public is urged to check if they live in areas at risk of flooding, on the anniversary of the 1947 floods.
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By P.J. Lassek, Tulsa World, Okla.  Sep. 23--An expeditious yet rigid technical review of The Channels, a $788 million proposal to create a 12-mile lake and three linked islands in the Arkansas River, will begin next week.
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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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By Rob Pavey< Staff Writer  Five environmental groups, including Augusta-based Savannah Riverkeeper Inc., asked a federal panel Tuesday for the authority to make official comments involving the proposed expansion of the Vogtle nuclear generating plant.
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EDINBURG, Texas  - Federal officials said on Friday they will raise a stretch of Rio Grande river levees in Texas instead of building a small section of the controversial U.S.-Mexico border wall across the property of reluctant landowners.
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By Hannah Mitchell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 17--HICKORY -- Leaders in the upper Catawba River basin believe they got the state's attention with their vocal opposition to Concord and Kannapolis' request to draw water from the Catawba River.
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Louisiana voters were deciding Saturday whether to consolidate the New Orleans-area's levee boards, the government agencies whose politically appointed members took criticism after Hurricane Katrina for failing to maintain the area's levees and floodwalls.
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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.